PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 107, 30 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Chief Justice (Sir-Robert Stent) left for the south last evening and will attend' a meeting of the Prisons Board at luvercargill. A. Press Association cable message from New York states that Mr. Beeby, New 'South Wales, Minister of Labour and Industry, has sailed for London. English papers announce the death of Canon Charles Bodington, of Lichfield, who, in conjunction with Canon G. E. Mason, conducted a series of missions in New Zealand over twenty years ago. Nine' years ago a serious operation condemned him to an invalid life, and of late his doctor forbade him to preach. News has been received of the death in hospital in England of Rifleman Charles Sidford, of "Wellington. The decensed, who was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him, was a senior member of the accountancy etafF of the Harbour Board, in whose employ he had been since the year 1895. Hβ left Wellinfton with a reinforcement for the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in January, 1917, was very severely, wounded ou August 30 of last year, and has been on the list of "dangerously ill" ever since. Rifleman Sidford, who was a single man, was only 38 years of age, and was considered to be one of the board's most trusted servants. Captain ¥. F. Newman, M.C., R.F.A., was in' the firing-line till the finish of the war, and marched with the army of France to Germany. Hβ hopes ere long to be released in order to return to Wellington. . Mr. James Cowan, of Wellington, who has written numerous' books on NewZealand subjects, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London. Mr. Cowan is at present onMgcd in carrying out historical work fov the Government, under the Department of Internal Affairs. Mr. A. D. Park, who has been chief clerk in the Auckland Tnblic Works Department for the past four years and a half, left Auckland for Wellington on Sunday to take up the position of chief accountant to the Department of Agriculture. Before leaving he was presented by his Auckland associates with a gold watch, and reference was made to his meritorious record of 20 years' service with the Department. The death is announced of Mr. John Janiieson, one of the pioneers of the printing trade. The late Mr. Janiieson came out to New Zealand from Falkirk, Scotland, when a lad of 19. He was a compositor on tho "Weekly Press,' Christchurch, in the early days, and then was at Hokitika for some time, during which period he ran it paper in the fjo'vinelds. He theu transferred to Wellington, and was on the staff of the old "Independent" newspaper (under the ownership of the lnle Mr. T. W. M'Kenzio and Mr. W. M. Muir, of Mftjoribanks Street). Later he was on the Government Printing Office staff, Later Mr. Jnmieson joined tho "Evening Post," where he remained for some years, retiring owing to foiling eyesight. He was later on the messenger staff of tho Government Insurance Office, from which he retired on pension, and he had been Rinco living privately. The late Mr. ■Tnniieson loaves a widow and a family. Mrs. G. Hallidny (Hataitai), Mis. W. R. Aekiiis (Rona Bay), Mr. Frank Janiieson (Shannon), Mr. John Janiieson (on active service), Mr. G. Stoddart (South Africa), Mr. A. Sloddiu-t (Sydney), Mrs. C. IT. Usmar (Palmerstqn North), find Mrs. C. Mitchell (Hataitai) nre the membere of the family (the latter four being stepchildren). Lieutenant Wood, of the Royal Flying Corps, v.lio has been on furlough in Masterton for some time, is about to return to England.

Mr. A. M'Kain, a returned eoldiefc died in Masterton on Wednesday morn> ing from the after-effects of influenza and gassing while on active service. The Right Rev. G. L. King; D.D., Anglican Bishop in Madagascar, has been elected secretary of the Society for the Propagatign of the Gospel, in succession to bishop Montgomery. Gunner W. T. Meyer, eon of Mr. W. Meyer, of Pallisor. Eoad, Roseneiith, is returning •to _ New Zealand by the Oxfordshire, which is due early next mouth. He left with the 26th Artillery, and some timo ago had a eevero attack of trench fever- Another brother, Driver B, H. Meyer, has been on active service nearly four years, and was among the New Zealanders to ro to Cologne. Mr. Thomas Forster Knos, chairman of the Sydney Board of Directors of Dalgety and Company, and at one time a resident of Chrislchurch, has died in Sydney at the age of 69. He was , a brother of Mr. E. W. Knox, general manager of the Colonial Sugar Ueihnng Company, and of Mr. Adrian Kiiox, K.C., C.M.G.