PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 74, 20 December 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

.Mr. W. H. Morion, City Engineer, who lins been on a visit to England and America, returned to Wellington via Auckland yesterday afternoon. Mr Morton returned via Canada, and was a. passenger by the mail boat Niagara, which arrived at .Auckland on Thursday. Captain G. G. Smittli, Superintendenl of Mercantile Marino, is to rel'iiD at tio end of this month. ! At the meeting of the Harbour Board the chairman of the board (Mr. .T. <j. Harkuess) 'offered Congratulations to two members of- the briard, Messrs. K. A. Wright and A. D. M'Leod, on tilleir election to (he House of Representatives. Professor P. AV. Kobertsuh, who is to succeed Professor Eastcriiclcl in tho Chair of Chcniisdry at Victoria College, is to leave London for "Wellington by the I'ainui early next, montit. His father, Mr. Donald Robertson 'Public .Service Commissioner), ir.is to have loft on a trip to tho Old Country in a few weeks, but will probably not.leave l'ow until after bis son'e arrival here. Detective Burnett, who has been attached for the last three years to the V.dliiiß-on Detective Office, has boon appointed officer in charge of the Karotcijiin police. Mr. T: W. Clarkson, at one time of the staff of tho Bank of Ntw Zealand. "but • more recently accountant to tho Feildinq Farmers' Freezing Co., Ltd., is relinquishing the latter posit ion, and will leave in January for Australia, whert he has been appointed soorotary to an important manufacturing company in Sydney. Captain G. Hooper, of the trainincship Aniokura, has been appointed nnutical adviser and chief examiner nt niasters and mutes in succession- to Captain H. S. Blackburno, who is to retire at the end of the month. Tihe following have been appointed inspectors of ■ machinery:—Messrs. IT. M.'Gicgor, second , engineer of the Anioturn; E. Brown, of Flaliaitai; E. llnri grave, of Wellington; and 1". L. Smith, of Oatuaru. So far no appolii , incur, lias been mnda to fill the- position of eiiitf leteeiKe in Wellington, rendered vacant !\v thu appointment of Air. Bcxldam as <su!>-]n-snc'ctor of (he Samoan Police. Constable £. .T. Whitehouse, ,vlio Hs acted as clerk to the Inspector <f folice fit the Wellington Central Station fw t=ome four yon n=, has been pronmlt-d in tiie rank of sergeant, and will siicoopJ Sergeant Edwards, who lias been transferred to Hamilton. T3r.' A. S. Addison, who h::s seru consider'ivbie war service, has l|Wii senior resident, modioli ukiccr at tl>6 Auckland Public HcspiUl, to nil llm vacancy created by the resignation of Dr. A. M. Grant. Dr. .\t!t!isu'i, \\ no is now in Australia, will iake v'p his residence, at' Auckland carlv in February. Mr. Leon Cohen, formerly well known in musical circles in Wellington, and iv one-time secretary , of the Miarmrtce.ul.ical Society, _is visiting Wellington in ouiii{lan.v with Mrs. Cohen; Mr, r 'ohen is now ii daily farmer on the .I'aieri I'siifta 01 ago. Mr. A. G. Millinglon, of Melbourne.' who has been on a biismesj '-.rip to Groat Britain and -America, returned to New Zealand by the Niagara. ]te is nt pnwsnlc in Wellington, and, in eoni'mny witS Mrs. .Millingtoii and rlnngphtcr, v.ill lesivo fur Australia, by tlie Manuka ul IKe e.id of the 711011 th. Mr. iS. Stidolph, of the Gear Comnanv's clerical staff, died in Wellington en Thursday, in his 77th year. Deceased, who mis a native of Kent, England, wn.s educated at tho Gloucester Academy. Ho rame out. to New Zealand fiftv-niiio years aso. Removing to the North Island, iii» joineci the sliiff of the 'Thames "Guni'diaii." Tiul later hn served with Hio New Zealand Voreps throughout 11kMuori W.ir Ahnut fifty yean ago hi , rami , to Wellington, and, with the toteMr. .!. IT. Pollock, carried on business as ii butcher in Cuba Street. About iwentynine vcars iiro he entered the service of the Gear Company, first as shop manned,, and for some years past on 111clerical staff The late Mr. Stidolph was a prominent member of His M.iirslv's Veterans. I'm , .mine seventeen vpnr-= lie i>'nied out the dii'ips nf sefivlarv io that organisation, but recently he had to retire on account of ill-health. Uilterlv. Mr.• Stidolph acted as. vicenresioont of the Veterans' Association. ITo leaves a widow and a family of thrco sons and four diiughteis. The sons arc Mr-:.srs. Svdtipy Stidnlph and Fred Stidolph. of the I'nion Company's staff, mid Mr. K. S'idolph Tho daughters are Vrs. ller-j (Oriental Bay).. Mrs. W. Stidiuph (WellingtoiO. Mrs. Katie iRn-ngiotii), and Miss Stidolph (Wollinjrtim).