PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 144, 13 March 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The death of' Sir Rjchard Watkins Richards. -Lord Mayor of Sydney, is announced bv a' Press Association cable messaee. ...Sir.Richard was Lord-Mayor of Svdnev from 1913 to 1915, and-was;, aiairi elected ,to the . position in 1919. lie had tho honour-of Kniglit. Bachelor con-, ferred. iin.on him at the New Year. He was born in Pembroke, South Wales, in 1863. Sir Richard-had been niling for - tlie past twelve months. The Sydney papers eulogise, his popularity and refer ■ to: his' term of office iis town cltrk 'and. ciiv -engineer Of Dunedin' from 1905 to 1911.' ■ "v.:"'.'" '■ .' ..'; The Chief justice (Sir Robert Stout) wiirieavk this 'morning for StratfoAl, where in association with Mr.. Justice Chanman. he will hear the petition of Maior, J. 8.. Hiue against .the.,-return.of jlr. R. Jfasters. for-the seat. His Honour, Jlr. Justice Hosking returned to' 'Wellington', from Nelson yesterday, and leaves,.on Monday for l'almerston North. .

Dr. and Mrs. Harty have returned from a holjdav spent at Taupo., Councillor. .J,'.M.'„..Dalo, has been ...apuointed chairman of the Leaseholds and 'leeislation Committee of the City Council durintr the absence abroad of Councillor A. B. Atkinson.

Mr. A. F. Nicoll, who is li&Viiiff Wellington next week to take up his duties as director of the School of Art in Christchurch,'" will 'be- farewelled by the. Academy at the Art Gallery, Wlutnioro Street, on Monday evening.

At last nizlit's meeting of the Port "Nicholson Yacht Club sympathetic refe.reuce was made to - the'death of Mr. GeoTsie Mee. and: a"resolution-of-condol-ence was carricd. Mr. Mee was a veteran '-yachtsman, and-was one of the founders of the Port Nicholson/lacht Club.' " In the eighties and nineties Mr. , Mee owned and raced- several yachts, inclndine the well-known Mantm. niterwards owned bv Mr. C. 1. lell, of rs eleon. '

Mr. A. It. Donaldson, who-for the past cizht years lias been a member of the head offico staff of the National Mutual Life Association at AVellmgton, has been appointed' 'district manager' for the association at Wanganui, and leaves at an early date to take, up his duties there.

Mr.' Chariest Frederick, Atmore, of Otaki. was-vesterdavi on .the motion of Mr. E. C. Kirk, admitted a solicitor ot the Sunreme Court by His Honour the Chief Justice' (Sir Robert Stout).

Mr. W. B." Hudson, who is retiring ou superannuation at the end of the present month from' the. position of DeputyConimiissioner of the New //ealaiid Government -Insurance Department, after nearly forty year.?* service, was born in London in 1858, and was brought to ; Now Zealand by his parents when he was only a year old. "When he. vjvas two years of ago lie retuTJied. to England. Af»er being educated at the Islington Piopnetaj'v School, under the IJev. E. W. Bush, lie joined'the staft of the Savings Bank Department' of 'the London Po.-t Office, and remained in the service' for seven years and a half. •. He theu ; eame back to New Zealand, and foon att«r-_arrival was appointed to the ' staff of the G° ment Insurance Department. In IS9(?> Mr, Hudson became Secretary to the Department. On the retirement of Mr. D. jr. Luckie in 191)9. lie was promoted Deputy-Commhsioneiy a position - which lie lias held ever since in addition to Ins secretarial duties.Mr. " son will leavo Wellington -by the Norths umber!and for a long visit to the OJd Country. '

Jlr,. c. P. AT. Pollock, formerly of Hie Wellington Executive of'/ the Navy Teneue aiid''fov some.'years 'honorary secretary of the. Jfowko's has received intimation from IfenrAdmiral 'Hopwood '(headquarters secrutarv) that the London Executive has conferred on him a special service decoration "in recognition of hit' great serves in connection with the -Navy League in New Zealand."