Personal Notes

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 24, 11 December 1912, Page 5

Personal Notes

zy\ R. J- W. POYNTON, a barrister ilk of the Supreme Court, and preXI 1 viously a magistrate at Invereargill, is to be re-appointed to the magistracy to fill the vacancy caused by the selection of Mr. Thompson, S.M., as a Civil Service Commissioner. Mr. Poynton found that his health suffered through being confined to his office as Secretary to the Treasury.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Hessey, of Masterton, contemplate leaving on a trip to the Old Country next April. Mr R. McNab has been elected president of the Mimwatu Philosophical Society. Mr A. A. Hentz, director of technical education at Nelson for the past four years, has been appointed to the staff of the Education Department at Singapore. At a meeting of members of the Wellington Baptist Church, it was decided to send a call to the Rev. A. T. Brainsby, of the North Auckland Baptist Church. The Rev. J. M. Simpson. 8.A., of Knox Church, Parnell, has received a unanimous call to the Gore Presbyterian Church Mr. John Wilkinson, chairman of ehe Whangarei Primary School Committee, has been appointed as the representative of the Auckland Education Board on the ernors in place of the Rev. J. L. Patullo, resigned.

The Hon. A. L. Herdman, Minister for Justice, will arrive in Auckland from Wellington tomorrow morning, to commence his projected tour of the prisons in the Dominion. While in Auckland he will visit Mount E-den goal, the Pakatoa and Rotoroa inebriate homes, and the tree-planting camps -at Waipa and Waiotapu.

The Rev. Angus MacDonald, who has been in charge of the Presbyterian Church at Pokeno, since his arrival from Canada a few months ago, has been extended a call to the Presbyterian Chureh at Waipu in succession to the late Rev. William Thompson. M.A.. B.D.

Dr. Te Rangihiroa, who sailed by the Tofua from Auckland for Niue (one of the outlying islands of the Cook Group) is to act for several months as medical officer until a permanent appointment is made. The island has a native population of about 4,000, which is double that of Rarotonga, the principal unit of the Cook Group, and 37 whites are resident upon it. Dr. Te Rangihiroa was accompanied by his wife.

His Honor Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, who is to fill the position of Acting-Governor, was sworn in last week as Administrator of the Gov-

ernment by the clerk to the Executive Council (Mr. J. F. Andrews), in the presence of Mr. Justice Sim, the Hons. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister), W. H. Herries, A. L. Herdman, W. Fraser, and H. D. Bell. The new Governor, Lord Liverpool, is due in Wellington about a week before Christmas. Mr. A. Guise (late Private Secretary to Lord Islington) and Mrs. Guise will remain in Wellington until about Wed-

nesday, December IS, when they will leave for Auckland to catch the Manama, sailing for Vancouver on December 20.

The death is announced by cable from Sydney of Lady Windeyer, widow of Sir Charles Windeyer, ex-Chief Judge of New South Wales.

Mr. Will Lawson, author of “ Stokin’, and Other Verses,” for many years on the staff of the A.M.P.. leaves Wellington tomorrow for Sydney, where he takes up his future residence.

Mr. W. Thorne has resigned the position he has held for many years as honorary treasurer to the Auckland Indies* Benevolent Society. Mr. Bart. Kent has consented to act as honorary treasurer.

An old resident of Auckland, in the person of Mr. Henry May, died at the residence of his niece, Mrs. Johns, of Ponsonbv Road, last week, at the age of 85 years. Deceased, who was a prominent member, in his younger days, of the Ponsonby Baptise Church, was predeceased by his wife four years, and leaves two sons, Messrs. H. K. May, of Whangarei, and F. W. May, of Ponsonby. Miss Hettie Hansen, daughter of Mrs. Hansen, Parawai, Thames, has been awarded the Wellington Gas Company’s sold trophy, being first prize for the first- year Domestic Economy Class at the Wellington day Technical School. The death occurred last week of Mr. Charles Haughty, of Christchurch, one of the early Canterbury settlers. The deeeased. who was born in Lergen, County Down, Ireland, came to New Zealand fifty years ago, and was one of those employed in the formation of the old West Coast road. Subsequently he took up dairy farming near Christchurch. The death is announced from Sydney of the Rev. John Gardner, a well-known Methodist minister.

Rev. Dr. Comins, Archdeacon of Melanesia, has returned from England. He intends to settle in New Zealand.

At a Cabinet meeting yesterday Mr G. F. C. Campbell was appointed to succeed Mr. W. Poynton as Secretary to the Treasury. Mr. Gibb, manager of the National Insurance Company at Sydney, left on Saturday for New Zealand on an extended holiday.

The death is announced of Mr. George Pile, formerly of New Zealand, and for some years a prominent man in business circles in Sydney.

Mr. Francis H. Morton. A. Mus., of Auckland, has been appointed organist and choirmaster of the Milton Presbyterian Chureh, Otago. Mr. F. J. Kirby, late associate editor of the ’■’New Zealand Times,” arrived by the Main Trunk express from Wellington on Saturday on his way to Whangarei to take over the "Northern Advocate,” in conjunction with Mr. H. O. Brown, also late of the •’Times” staff. Mr. Willis, Speaker of the New South Wales Parliament, with Mrs. Willis and their 27-year-old son, intend spending the whole of next January in touring

New Zealand. Mr. George Black, a journalist of note, and a Labour member of the N.S.W. Parliament, who was responsible for p acing Mr. Willis in the Speaker’s chair, will also probably visit New Zealand, with his wife, early in the New Year.

The retirement of Captain A. Duder, who has held the post of Harbourmaster at Auckland for 19 years, and of Mr E. W. Burgess, Traffic Manager, who has had 42 years of service under the Harbour Board, was marked by presentations to both gentlemen on Friday from the Board’s staff. Captain Duder was presented with a purse of sovereigns and an enlargement of the American fleet at anchor in Auckland Harbour, while a

purse of sovereigns was also presented to Mr Burgess, the secretary (Mr H. B. Burnett) making the presentations. Each of the recipients is retiring after one year’s leave of absence. ' Father Costello, of St. Patrick’.) Church. Palmerston North, died suddenly on Saturday afternoon at the age of 53 years. Death was due to heart failure, following after a series of influenza attacks. The deceased was educated at the Catholic College at Innia, County (dare, and also under Archbishop Erington. He was ordained by the Bishop of Killalqa, and under medical advice came to New Zealand as curate under Bishop Luck, at Auckland. Hb first mission was Pukekohe. and afterwards he was administrator of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland. Father Costello travelled South America and Ireland in aid of Church funds, and while in Ireland suffered from a violent fever, and was ordered to return to New Zealand. He was appointed to- Gisborne, and later was assistant priest at Wellington, and a priest at Greymouth and Marion. Finally he went to Palmerston North, where he had successully launched a scheme to build a new St. Patrick’s Church. The deceased was exceedingly popular, especially with the young, and was famed for the simplicity of h : s eloquence. The funeral will be he'd on Tuesday.