Personal Notes

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 12, 19 March 1913, Page 5

Personal Notes

Professor R. J. Scott,, of Canterbury College, leaves Wellington for London by the Arawa on March 20.

The death of Viscount Tredegar, Lord lieutenant of Monmouth, is announced by Press. Association cable from London. Mr. Bruce Wallace, of Ponsonby, who has received an appointment with the Marconi Wireless Company, left last .week by the Moldavia for Sydney. Mr. Ellis Curtis, assistant town clerk for the Onslow Borough Council, Wellington, has been appointed town clerk at Ohakune. Mr. J. W. Collins, chief clerk of the Labour Department, who is inquiring into the shortage of labour in the Dominion, is at present in Auckland. The inquiry in the South Island, with the exception of Nelson, has been completed. The Hon. James Allen, Minister of 'Finance and Defence, New Zealand, was entertained by the Royal Colonial Institute at a city luncheon at De Keyser s Hotel on February 12, the Right Hon. Earl Grey, president of the Institute, presiding. The Hon. G. E. Footer, Minister of Trade and Commerce for Canada, arrived in Auckland last Wednesday to join the Empire Trade Commission. He afterwards goes to Australia to discuss iwith the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth the question of trade reciprocity between Canada and Australia. The Auckland Presbytery has decided that the induction of the Rev. W. 1. Currie into the Mangere charge should take place at 7 o’clock on the evening of Thursday, April 10. Mr. Currie desires to remain in his present charge at Kaitangata till the end of March. Among the gentlemen presented to the King at the levee held at Buckingham Palace on February 4 were the Hon. Thoma.s Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, whose sponsor was the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Colonel A. W. Robin, C. 8., C.M.G., of th? (New Zealand Staff Corps, who was presented on appointment to the Dominion section of the General Staff at the War Office by the Inspector-General of the Home Forces.

Dr. Truby King, superintendent of Sealeliff Mental Hospital, is to leave next month On a visit to England. In London he will attend a conference on infant mortality which has been convened by the National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare iof Infancy. The conference will be attended by representatives from various parts of the English-speaking world. Dr. Truby King will be absent from New Zealand for eight or ten months. •

The Rev. A. Don, who has worked for many years as missionary among th.? Chinese of Otago and Southland, is, in accordance with the decision of the Responsible Committee of the Presbyterian Church, to be transferred to Auckland, where the Chinese population is greater than in the South. Mr. Don has been a resident in the South for 31 years, for 24 of which his home has been in Dunedin. Mr. Don has earned the high respect of the community, and

his departure will be felt with regret by those among whom he has laboured. Mr. Leo Myers has been appointed to the London directorate of the Auckland Electric Tramways Co., vice Mr. S. E. Garckc, resigned. Hie Rev. C. H. Isaacson, vicar of St. Peter’s Church, Pahiatua, will vacate his charge at the end of the present month. He has been appointed to the Porirna parish. Captain I. T. Standish, R.N.Z.A., having. returned from England, has taken up the duties of adjutant to the Wellington Field Artillery Brigade, with headquarters at Palmerston North. Mr. G. W. Davidson, of Wellington, leaves for Auckland to-morrow to join the Marama for Vancouver.

Mr. Alan M. Hume, solicitor, who was for some years with Messrs. Stewart aud Johnston, solicitors, of Auckland, and who for the past twelve mouths has been managing elerk to Mr. C. L. Mac Diarmid, of Hamilton, has now commenced practice in Auckland at the Safe Deposit Buildings. Mr G. H. Rhodes, a brother of the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes, Postmaster-General, is at present on a visit to Auckland. Dr. Ernest Williams has been elected honorary physician to the Auckland Hospital in succession to Dr. Dudley, who resigned recently. Mr Maughan Bariiett, of Wellington, who was recently appointed city organist of Auckland, will arrive here at the end of the present month. Mr. Ernest Davis returned by the Moldavia on Friday, in company with Mrs. Davis and family, after a holiday trip to Australia.

,Mr Gawk-well, Waitemata County Clerk, has been confined to his bed for a month past with a serious injury to his knee, -occasioned by an accident with a horse.

Mr. W. E. Knox, general manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Limited, reached Auckland -by the Moldavia on Friday from Sydney, and during the forenoon inspected the company’s works at Chelsea. Mr Haldane Cook, rno has resigned his position with Messrs Brown, Barrett and Co., to go farming, was presented with a dressing ease by his fellow employees. Mr. A. Naisb, of the headquarters staff of the Union Bank of Australia, arrived by the P. and O. steamer Moldavia on Friday, en route to Wellington.

Mr. Albert Leatherbarrow, who is leaving the employ of Messrs. Laidlaw, Leeds, was presented by Mr. A. Laidlaw, on behalf of the employees, with a purse of sovereigns. Mr. H. Pearse, of the Thames Post and Telegraph Office, has secured welldeserved promotion, having been transferred to Karangahake, where he will be postmaster.

Mr Gunn, local manager of the State Coal Depot, has been -transferred to Wellington, and will be succeeded in Dunedin by Mr Quinlivan, from Wellington depot.—Press Association. Mr. E. R. Russell, of the legal firm of

Russell and Campbell, returned by the davia on Friday, after visiting England and the Continent. Mrs. Russell and family made the trip, and they also returned.

Mr. T. H. Nesbitt, Town Clerk of Sydney, has come to Auckland for the eighth year in succession, to spend a fortnight oS his annual vacation he-e. The remainder will be occupied in visiting Rotorua and the South, Mr. Nesbitt’s intention being to leave Auckland by the next P. and O. steamer (the Macedonia), on his return trip to Sydney, on April 11th.

A pleasant ceremony took -place on Thursday last at the office of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., when Mr. A. W. North, who has been appointed accountant at the Hamilton office of the company, was -presented by the manager (Mr. F. J. Bodie), on behalf of the local staff, with a pair of suitably inscribed entree dishes, in token of the goodwill aud esteem in -which he is held by his fellow officers. The Rev. W. S. Rollings, who recently accepted a call to the Ponsonby Baptist Church, arrived by the P. and O. steamer Moldavia on Friday. Mr. Rollings comes from Adelaide, where for some years he has had the oversight of the Goodwood Baptist Church. lie is expresident of the South Australian Baptist Union, and for some years has been editor of the ••Southern Baptist." Mr. Rollings was accompanied by his wife and two. young sons. Mr and Mrs J. R. Self and family, ot Auckland, leave .shortly on a visit to the Old Land.

Mr J. P. Luke is announced as an opponent of Mr I). McLaren for the Wellington Mayoralty. Professor R. J. Scott, of Canterbury College, leaves for England by the Arawa on the 20th of this month. Mr “ Dolph ” Davis, of Messrs L. D. Nathan, left with h : .s wife by the Moldavia on a trip to Europe. He expects to return in about eight months’ time. Mr H. G. Archer, a son of Captain Archer, well known in Auckland, leaves on Friday, to take up a position in the Calcutta branch of the South Biitish Insurance Co.

Mr Nosworthy, M.P., was entertainel at Ashburton last week and presented with a .secretaire. Mrs Nosworthy was presented with a manicure set. Die Premier attended.

Mr and Mrs W. Goodson, of Auckland, left on Friday by the mail liner Marama for Vancouver. Mr and Mis Goodson intend to spend some time in Canada before going on to the United Kingdom. They intend to be away for some months.

Herr Heinrich Hemmer, a German journalist and lecturer, is at present a visitor to Wellington. It is his intention to deliver a lecture in Wellington shortly, dealing with the social and political life of Germany, the growth of Socialism in that country, and other matters of interest.

Mr David Teed consented at last week’s meeting of the Newmarket Borough Council to allow himself to

be nominated for a further term of office as Mayor of the borough. The announcement, which was made in response to a request contained in a joint letter from councillors, was received with warm applause. Mr Johnston, the retiring director of the Bank of New Zealand, has left for the south after a business visit to Auckland. Mr Johnston, who was an appointee of the Ward administration, has rendered valuable service on the board.

hie earlier li< n with the staff giving him an initial intimacy with the but>ines«s of the institution that proved • specially (serviceable. He is recognised as bringing, in addition, a very sound and varied convinercial knowledge to the consideration of the bank’s affairs. Mr. D. Blackie, who resigned the secretaryship of the Wellington Drivers’ Union to take up a position in the King Country, has been entertained, and presented with a case of pipes. Mrs. Blackie was also the recipient of a dress* ing case. The Auckland Golf Club passed a resolution of condolence on Saturday night, with Mr. Walter Bewley (president of New Plymouth Golf Club) whose son died on Friday from injuries sustained in a motor car accident. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin records the death of Captain McCallum, of Port Chalmers, aged 80. Deceased was an ex-captain of the Union Steamship Company's service, and late harbourmaster at Dunedin. Mr. A. S. Dauby. Government Immigration Officer, has retired, having been granted three months’ leave of absence. During his term of office, Mr. Dan by has dealt with close on 30,000 immigrants. Although not yet of the age when compulsory retirement is enforced, Mr. Dauby has gone out voluntarily. It is 31 vears since he first joined the survey office. An old resident of the Thames district diied in Auckland last week in the person of Mr Richard Madden. Deceased was over 50 years in busineras in the mining townehip. w.here he was generally < vdeemed. He was a vetran of the Maori War, ami in the early days experienced a great many of the vici «situdcs atta. hi ng to the life of the pioneer colonists. The popular New Zealand actor. Mr Harry Roberts, iis a stepson of the late Mr Madden, who had reached tht age of 77 yeans. Miss Mary Proctor, daughter of the late L A. Proctor, the eminent astronomer, left Sydney on Saturday by the Maunganui for Wellington, and will spend about six weeks in the Dominion on* a lecturing tour to raise funds for the proposed solar physics observatory in New Zealand. While in Wellington Miss Proctor will be entertained by the New Zealand Club, ami will be the lir-t lady to receive that distinction. A former chief engineer of tin* New Zea lan.l Railways. Mr J. H. Lowe, wh » liar, latterly taken up hits permanent residen •<• in England, is now on a visit Io New Zealand. At the request of the Government he i.> making an iiaspection of the New Zealand railways, at the conclusion of which he will report to the Minister for Railways. Mr Lowe han completed his work in the North Island, and is now’ engaged in inspecting the South Inland lineis. While in the service of the New Zealand Government, Mr Lowe was in charge of the maintenance branch of the railway*. Mr Ralph Keening, an Auckland pioneer citizen, parsed away peacefully on hriday la.st, at the mature age of 82. Deceased arrived in Auckland with hD parents in March. 1842. by the barque Union. Stalling in burdnei-ts in thi,s city at a very early age. lie retired with a competency in the seventies. Passing through the many vicwitudeis and trouble*; to which our pioneer colonists were isubjected he was prominent in forwarding many matter* in connection with the welfare of the community, and in aiidsting in the foundation of various institutions a:;l commercial enterprises in our midst. He was one of the founder.; of the find .hw ; *h Synagogue in tlih; city, and was for many vear.i ar. e.irne-4 worker in all matters pertaining to the Jew’.>h community. He leaves a widow, . i\ , ons. ami a daughter to %ourn !.:m.