PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 203, 22 May 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

. ♦ ——' . Mr. C. D. Norwood who has been on a business visit to America and England, is now en route to New.Zeala.nd_ in the Indarra. This steamer is due in Sydney about Juno 13, and Mr.-Norwood 6hould arrive in Wellington about a week later. •A Press Association message received from Auckland'yesterday'recorded ' the death of Mr. Hcnaro ivaihau, ex-M.P., aged- 03.. Heart failure was Iho cause of death. The deceased was elected Native representative for the Western Maori seat in 1896, and remained in the Houso until 1012, 'when the Hon. Dr. Pomnre was returned for the constituency. He ■was the son of a powerful chief, and was educated at Archdeacon Maunsell's school at Waikato. Mr. Culford Bell lias been appointed elocution judge for the Duncdin Competitions Society's festival to be held in September. Mr. P. Muter. F.1.A., Government Life Insurance Actuary,* who has been appointed Deputy Commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr. Hudson on superannuation, whs ap? •pointed to the Department in 1879. He obtained his F.1.A., London, in 1895, and was the first in the _ Australasian colonies to pass this examination. He received his appointment as actuary lo the Department on the death of Mr. Morris Fox. Mr. William John Gandy, whose death occurred on Thur.-day at his residence, Colombo Street, at the ago of eighty-six, was one of Welliujrton's early_ business men. and hud been one of the city's wellknown residents. The deceased, a nativo of London, came to Now Zealand in 185* in the §hip Balnaguith, and for ten years followed a country occupation, acquiring, knowledge and information for his business of dairy produce and genern! commission agent which he established in Wellington in 1864, and which he had carried on ever since.

Mr. T. S. Ronaldson has retired from his position of Assistant Public Trustee. Mr. Ronaldson is very well known throughout the Wellington district, and in his earlier days used to take a prominent part in athletic contests. 110 joined the service as an extra clerk in the Property Tax Department in 1863, and in-November of the sanie year was transferred to a permanent clerkship in the Public Trust Office. Ten years later found him examiner of accounts in tho office and the succeeding year he was appointed accountant. In 1895 he was promoted to be chief clerk, a positon he held for ten years. He beenme inspector in 1905, aiul, on the death of Mr. A. A. Duncan early in 1911, he became Deputy-Trustee. When the office was reorganised in 1917 Mr. Ronaldson became one of the Board of Trustees with the title of Assistant Public Trustee.

Mrs. William Watson, of Wellington Tarrace. ha 6 received advieo that her son, Surgeon-Lieutenant James A. Watson, has been permanently appointed to the , Royal Navy. Surgeon-Lieutenant Watson, who was educated at Wellington College, went Home about. nine /mid to study medjeinc, and took his degree in London. Soon after the wnr broke, out he joined the Royal Air I'orce, and was engaged on active duty until some wo and a half years ago, when he vim Invalided to England with sciatica. Owing to his war record, his services in the Navy will date back to 1914.

The. death nt the Victoria Hospital this week of Mr. James Cotterill removed from the city one of'its early residents. ■ He was born atßagnor; Berkshire, England, G6 years ago, and- eamo to New Zealand in the Waikato in 1874, his Mow-passengers including Messrs. C. 51. and J. V. Luke. He was one of two brothers. James and Joseph, who were in business in Wellington for many years. He was engaged in the coastal trade on such well-known early traders "as the Stormbird, the Ladvbinl, the Huia, anil the Go Ahead. The late Mr.'Cotterill retired from business eight years ago. He leaves one son (Mr. Charles Cotterill, of Wellington), and one daughter (Mrs. M. J. Reardon, of Wel.linton).

' Mr. Claudo Haigh (late lieutenant, N.Z.M.C.) has resigned his 'position in the Defence Department, and is proceeding to Auckland to pilot the Gertrude Johnson Concert Company on a tour through the Dominion.