PERSONAL ITEMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 October 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

■Mr W. H. Tool-ey, a member of the Christchurch Esperanto Club and travelling erecting engineer for Messrs. Booth, McDonald and Co., Ltd., was a visitor to the Masterton Esperanto Club last evening.

Mr J. Roberts, secretary of the New Zealand Alliance of Labour, returned from abroad on Monday. ‘He represented the New Zealand Labour movement at the International Labour Conference held at Geneva earlier in the year.

Mr S. V. .Rodney is seriously ill in the Pahiatua hospital. He was admitted to the institution some days ago and on Saturday it was found necessary to amputate the great toe of the left foot. '.His condition is causing some anxiety. A Press Association message from Wellington reports 'the death of the Rev. A. H. Collins, a well-known minister of the Baptist Church. Mr Collins retired some little time ago, but recently acted for a while as Minister at Island Bay. Formerly he conducted a ministry in Taranaki. The funeral of the late Mr R. B. Church took place in Masterton yesterday afternoon, the cortege being a large and representative one. A considerable number of beautiful wreaths covered the casket. A service was held at the late residence of deceased by the Rev. E. 0. Blamirs and Rev. J. Cocker, the latter paying a high tribute in connection with the personal qualities of the late Mr Church. The pallbearers at the funeral were Messrs. Newman and McCullough (Orange Lodge), T. Mannell and Andrew Donald (Methodist Church), and Gray and Parlane, Wellington (Drivers’ Union). The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. E. 0. Blamires.

The death occurred at Christchurch yesterday of the Rev. James Russell Wilford, aged 27, eldest son of Canon J. R. Wilford, Christchurch (states a Press Association message). Mr Wilford was an old boy of Christ’s College. Ho entered Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1923, graduated in 1926 after a brilliant career. He was ordained at Trinity in 1927 with a title to the parish of St. Barnabas, Southampton. 111-health compelled his return to New Zealand last year. a The death is announced from London of Captain William Colbeck, a member of the Borehgrevinek and Scott expeditions to the Antarctic. Captain Colbeck was born in Hull in 1871 and served with the Wilson Line of that' city until he joined Sir George Newnes’s expedition to the Antarctic aboard the Southern Cross, under C. E. Borehgrevinek, the members of the party being the first people to -winter in the Antarctic regions. The spot chosen was Cape Adare. Shortly after his return Mr Colbeck was appointed captain of the Morning, the relief ship to the Royal Geographical Society’s expedition of 1 1901-4, commanded by Captain Scott. Mr Colbeck made two voyages to the Discovery’s winter quarters in McMurdo Sound, and after Scott’s first expedition was disbanded he returned to the service of Wilson and Co., Hull. The death of another of the old figures of the district, Mr Geoage Willetts, took place at Westland Hospital recently. The deceased was a native of Deans Forest, Gloucestershire, England, and was 80 years of age,, He earner to New Zealand in 1874, and reached the Coast in 1880, being engaged in mining at Kanieri till 1904, when he came into Hokitika and carried on his trade as a, bricklayer for a number of years. His wife died in 1916. Deceased leaves a family of nine daughters (Mrs Bayliss, of Christchurch, Mrs Willoughby, of Masterton, Mrs Douglas, of Arahura, Mrs Abbott, of Lower Hutt, Mrs Clarke, of New Plymouth, Mrs G. Mclntosh, of Ruatapu, Mrs Peach, of, Hawera, Mrs Childs, of Auckland, and Miss Elsie Willetts, of Wellington), and two sons (Jack in Wanganui, and Richard in the North Island). There are 53 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.