PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2945, 4 December 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

. « Father Lightheart, of Rotortia, was a passenger from the Islands to Wellington by the Moana on Saturday. Tho Mayor of Wanganui (Mr. Mac- ] kay) is a visitor to ANnlmgton. ] Mr. J. V. Hanna, of IJiuiedin, has i been appointed by tho National Com- i mittee of tho Young Mens Christian I Association as a field secretary to work i among tho New Zealano! troops at the i front. ]\lr. Hanna will .sad with tho • nest Reinforcement. Mr. Jas. "Davidson, who has I>een in the Auckland office of tno Native Land ' Court Department and of tho Tokerau Land Board, has been promoted to tho Wellington office of the Native Lands • , Department. He was presented by his ■ Auckland colleagues witn a travellingbag. : Mr. Thomas Buddie, who has been associated with tho New Zealand Insurance Company for very. nearly 40 years, has tendered his resignation as a director, as he has found it necessary to retire from active work. His resignation has been accepted with' very much regret by his fellow directors, j who have conveyed to Mr. Buddie their . high appreciation of the long and valu- ■■ able services he has rendered to the , company since he first took his seat : in 1577. Thft vacancy on the board ; has been filled by the appointent of ■ Mr. Oliver Nicholson, Mifyor of Mount ( Eden borough. Captain F. A. Worsley, who arrived ' here from San Francisco with Sir Ernest Shaokleton in tho Moana, will , be remembered by many Wellington , people as officer and master of various . New Zealand Government steamers . some years ago. He was on the Tu- ( tanekai for a time, and with Captains i Fairchild and Post brought over : H.M-S. Sparrow (now the Amokura). j Afterwards he was on the Countess of Hanfurly. Sinco then he has had j many : adventures, and the greatest , have been those met with while he was master of the Endeavour in her voyage to tho Weddell Sea, where she left her bones. A presentation was ma3e on Thursday evening to Mr. J. M. 'Wilson, statioiunaster at tenrose Junction Railway Station, who Is bsing transferred to Paekakarilri. The gift—a gold albert—was handed over by Mr. J. Chambers, who spoke of Mr. Wilson's obliging and painstaking attitude toward the residents and passengers. Mr. and 1 Mrs. Thoa. Patterson, for- ; morly residents of Hokitika, are ! through passengers to Sydney from ; San Francisco by the Moana. , Mr. G. F. Bothamley, Reader of the House of Representatives, and lately , acting as-associate to Mr. Justice Hosking, leavos for England shortly, having received a sub-lieutenancy in the Motor Patrol Service. Mr. Geo. Yerex, who was in business in Wellington for many years, arrived from Papeete by the Moana yesterday. During recent years Mr. Yerex lias been m the Auckland district, and also has business interests in Tahiti. Thomas J. West (whose death is reported from London) was one of the pioneers oi tho moving pictures in Australasia. ~flo was the'first manager to ostablisb. a. permanent show. He first came to New Zealand with tho pictures in conjunction with Harvard's Brescians, the entertainment being a commbination of moving pictures and a concert party. At the exhibition in I Christchurcb. in 1906, Mr.' West had | combination of moving pictures and later he became established in Australia, the Bresoians providing the nucleus of his orchestra. A circuit was established In New ' Zealand, but Mr. Henry Hayward, who had been already closely associated with Mr. West, absorbed tho West interests hero, and! the New Zealand I'icture Suppliosj Ltd., was built out of a combination of Fullers' and Hayward's interests. Mr. tVest was largely ongagod in Britain, where no had big picture interests.