PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14260, 10 January 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr F. IV. Edwards, of Auckland, was a visitor to Hamilton to-day.’ Hon. AV. Berham has been elected Speaker of the Queensland Assembly. Mr W. H. Atack, manager of the United Press Association, was in Hamilton for a few hours to-day. liieut.-Commandcr Bourke, \.C., on /'‘■-his arrival at Feilding ° n a lecturing tour, was given a civic reception i.ne band turned out, and flags were flying. j) f Trilby Ring? who has returned to Dunedin from an extended visit to England, is to. take up again the position of medical superintendent of the Seacliff Mental Hospital. Miss E. M. Robb, supervisor of the New Plymouth telephone exchange, has received instructions that she is transferred to be relieving supervisor of telephone exchanges for the North Island. Mr G. L. Stevenson, manager of the AVaikato Shipping Company, who recently returned to Hamilton from a two months’ trip to Australia, left toy the Rotorua express for Auckland to-day. According to cable advice received at the office of H.M. Trade Commissioner, Mr R. AV. Dalton, who has been paying an official visit to the United Kingdom, was to sail on his return journey to New Zealand on January 3rd, by R.M.S. Mantua, and should arrive in AVellington towards the end of February. Major AV. N. Abbott, M.C., N.Z.M.C., ivho has been acting as divisional surgical officer at the Trentham Orthopaedia Hospital for the past nine months, has been posted for duty to the Auckland a. military annexe. He will replace Major Gower, N Z.M.C., who has taken up the position of medical superintendent ' at the Hamilton Hospital. Mr W. J. Rainbow, F.L.S., F.E.S.. entomologist at the Australian Museum at Sydney, died recently. He served an apprenticeship on the Wanganui Herald, but his heart was never in his work; insects being his hobby. He was regarded as the leading authority on arancidae in the Southern Hemisphere, and published 67 scientific papers dealin" with original research into the life history of hitherto unknown or undeserved scorpions and spiders. The latest addition to the legal profession in HajiiLicli is Mr John A. Ross whose card appears in this issue. Mr u.'.avi comes well accredited from the Wellington legal firm of Messrs O. and R. Becre, with whom he served for some years before going to the war, and whom he joined as a solicitor on his return nine months ago. Mr Ross ie a son of Mr C. M. Ross, director of the C. M. Ross Co., Ltd., the well-known drapery establishment in Palmerston North.

, Mr Samuel Parker, who died at Whatawhata on Wednesday evening, at the age of 77 years, had been a resident ’fa 0 f the Waikato for some 15 years. ▼ Born at Newcastlc-on-Tyne, he left ■England as a young man for Tonga, where he engaged in farming for several years, marrying the daughter of a Tongan chief; On coming to New Zealand, the deceased settled m Whatawhata, and later removed to Kawhia, where he kept the Vo®! Olnce for five years, subsequently returning to the Whatawhata district, He leaves a family of two daughters Mrs AI of Whatawhata, ni?d Mrs T, W. Scott, of Kawhia.