PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 38, 8 November 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Ron. J. G. Coates is leaving for the north to-day, to remain in .his electorate for some lime.

Major R. E. Goddard, of the Overseas Trade Department, who lias been very busv interviewing Ministers of tho Crownf treads of Departments, ano business men in Wellington, left for flic south last evening in continuation of his tour of New Zealand. He expec's to return here on Wednesday or Thursday next. ">

A Press Association message from Auckland stales:—The congregation of St. David's Presbyterian Church gave a practically unanimous call to the Rev. David Ilerron, M.A.

Captain C. I!. Rowlings, of Christchurch, has returned by the Paparon. lie has five years' service to his credit, and wjis of the lirst four hundred in New Zealand to enlist.

Mr. A. J. Styles, who has recently returned from overseas, has been elected to the position of lion, secretary to tho Wellington "Hose and Carnation Club, the acting-secretary, Mr. W. C. Head, having retired owing to pressure of private business.

The death is recorded of Private Alexander M. Bannister, second son of Mr. and Mrs. John Bannister, of-'Longbush, Masterton. Private Bannister left New Zealand with the Fourteenth Tioinforecments, and saw a good deal of fiuhting. Much sympathy will be fell: for Mr. and Mrs, Bannister, who lost anoth.'r son at the Battle of Messincs.

Mr. S. Vi. Sherwood, who has for some years represented the stock department of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, of Wellington, has been appointed to the charge of the Tnihape slock office of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company, Limited. * Mr. Sherwood was last week presented with a travelling trunk as a token of the esteem of the stuff of his late firm. >

Mr. W. B- Woodward, on his retirement from Ihe position of manager of the Auckland branch of the Union Bank of Australia, received a presentation at the Auckland Chamber of Commerce. ITe left by the Makura. this week on a visit to Australia.

Caplain Cyril Angus, son of tho lalo .Mr Alexander Angus, of Poloiie, who icl'l. New Zealand 'with the Advance Guard for Samoa, and later sailed with the llllh lieiiiforftMiioiiK is returning home l-v the Arawa, due at Auckland on the Mtl'i of this month.

The niescut is the fourth visit of Mr. John Hopkins, judge of elocution at the eomneUlions lo New Zealand. Mo has nrcviously judged twice iu Duncdiu and once in Clirislcluirch.

Mr. E. ]?. Ward lias taken up liis duties ns solicitor to the Public Trust Oliico at Auckland, a position to which ho was recently appointed. Mr. •!• Dolph, who has been acting in that position for eonio timo past, will leave shortly for Wellington, wncro he will act as solicitor to tlio local Deputy-Public Trustee.

The post of assistant director of tho Cawthron Institute of Scientific Pesearch has been filled by the appointment of Mr. Theodore. Bigg, M.Sc;, B.A. (research, Cambridge). Mr. Pigg is a N w Zealamler, and had a brilliant career at Victoria College, lie gained the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, and went to Cambridge in 1911. .During the war Mr. Pigg undertook agricultural and iclief organisation missions 011 behalt of the Society of Friends in France, Serbia, and Pussia. Ho is at present visiting research institutes and experimental stations in tho United States.—Press Assn.

Mr. J. P. Sharp, 1 who is relinquishing his position as manager of tho Blenheim branch of Dalgcly and Co. to take up a responsible position on the lirm's general stall', with headquarters at Christchurch, has had a long and honourable record of public service in Marlborough (says the "Express"). For twelve years ho was on tho council of the Marlborough Chamber of Commerce, and was three years president; he, was president for three years of the Marlborough Merchants' Association; chairman of the Marlborough Auctioneers' and Stock Agents' Association for four years; first president of ®j Marlbor; ough Scottish Society, holding the position for two years; president of tho Philharmonic Society, now defunct; and lirst president of tho Blenheim Operatic Society, holding the position for two years. Tho members of the Merchants' Association presented Mr. Sharp with a substantial cheque with which to purchase a souvenir of his connection with them, and rho members of the Marlborough Club, at a social gathering, asked his acceptance of a handsome gold albert and inscribed pendant. Tho Operatic Society has elected Mr. Sharp a life member in recognition of his valued services.

Mr. .Frank Charlton, the. Wellington baritone, is likely to visit Wellington nl: Christmas with the new Williamson .Grand Opera. Company. The Adelaide "Jiegister," of his Valentine in "Faust," said:—"Air. Frank Charlton appeared as Valentine, Riving' a finished interpretation of the part both musically and dramatically." The Adelaide "Advertiser" saio: "The new tenor (?) Frank Charlton made a happy appearance as Valentine, and rendered that notable part most consistently. The aria 'Dear Gift of My Sister' rovealcd the melodious timbre of the voice, and the death scene further proved Mr. Charlton's dramatic gift." j Mr. Hobert Mowatt, of Thompson [ Street, an old and much-respected resident of Wellington, who had .been in failing health for some years, died yesterday morning in his eighty-fourth year. Born in Scotland, Mr. Mowatt went in for a mililarv career, and saw service in the Crimean War. For some time after bis arrival in Wellington ho was field artillery instructor hero. In. .Inno, 187! i, he ioined the City Council staff, and was associated with iiie worlrng of the Queen's Wharf from' then until tho structure was taken over by the Harbour Hoard from tho council. In October. IRSI. ho entered tho services nf the board and was first clerk in the accountant's oliiee for a number of years, retiring on superannuation on November HO, ■Mill. *110 was Mayor of Melrose for a term, and for many years was a popular member of (he Wellington Howling Club; He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife oied about two years ago, leaving him with two daughters.