PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 300, 13 September 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. F. If. Hunt. S.M., .left Auckland last night to take up A' -;;isteyi<il duties in Wellington for a few weeks, owing to tho pressure of work here. Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., of Dunedin, has arrived in Auckland to temporarily <ake up Mr Hunt's duties there. Air. A. R. Jordan, distrid inspector of the Public Trust Department, whose headquarters have been at Dunedin, has received notiication of his appointment' to the position of local Deputy-Public Truslee at Dunedin, in succession to Mr. E. 0 Hales. Mr. Jordan will take over control of the Dunedin branch at an early date. Mr. T. Harlc Giles, Conciliat'on Commissioner at Auckland, who has been absent .for six months on account of illhealth, has resumed his duties. A Press Association message from Christchurch states that the death occurred at the Christchurch Hospital on Saturday of the Rev. G. W. H. Harding, of Prebblcton, who was injured in a motor accident on the previous Sunday. The motor-car which ho was driving collided with another motor, and Mr. Harding suffered'a fractured • thigh and injuries to the head. Mr. Adolpho Orsi, late surveyor to Lloyds' Agency, Alexandra, Egypt, is visiting Wellington. He has been in New Zealand for about a moivth, and will leave this week for San Francisco. His daughter is married to a New Zealander. Lieutenant Harold Gibbs, late of the Royal Air Force, and Mr. Orsi brought her from Alexandria to rejoin her husband here. The funeral of the late Constable George Pearcc, of Brooklyn, took place on Saturday morning. " Tlic Rev. Father Murphy celebrated Requiem Mass a; the church, and the Rev. Father Mahoney, assisted by Dean Holloy, officiated at the graveside. Among those who attended the funeral were the Commissioner of Police (Mr. J. O'Donovan), Superintendent Norwood, Inspector Broberg, and Seiiior-Sergeant Gaffney. The chief mourners were the two sous, Mr. John Pearce, of Onehunga (the deceased's eldest brother'), and Mr. Strawbridge (son-in-law).

Mr. F. W. Schramm, Deputy-Registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington, leaves to-day for Auckland, where he will take up similar duties, which he had carried out previous to his transfer to Welliugton about two years ago.

Mr. William Mudge, who died on Wednesday at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Gilchrist, of Island Bay, was born iu Devonshire in 1831. He came to New Zealand in 1375, and had lived here ever since. He was a very old member of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners. His wife predeceased him ten months ago. He leaven <i family of two sons and three daughters.

Mr. Robert Darroch, headmaster of the Koseneath State School, has tendered his resignation to the Wellington Education Board, in order to take up the Government appointment of' tutor to the lads fresh from the public schools, who are to enter tho Public Service under the new scheme arranged by the Government. Mr. Darroch has been headmaster of the Koseneath School for eleven years, and for the last six years or 60 he has also controlled the side school at Hataitai, now about to be created a full school. He has also been enthusiastic in all matters appertaining to the Nfivy League, of which he is the local secretary. Ho has also done good work in coaching ex-soldiev students of an evening under ttw vocational training scheme-. Senior-Sergeant M'Namara arrived "> Wellington yesterday on transfer from Auckland. <■, Mr. T. 11 Overton, A.M.1.E.E., who is at present employed in the Dmicdiu city electrical department, has been appoim'ied electrical engineer to the Central Power Board at Hamilton. Mr. Overton was educated and tra.nod in his profession in Dunedin. He served four years with the New Zealand Kxpedilionary Force, and during the last year of the war was principal assistant mechanical electrical superiiuiendent <»C tho Second Army light railway system on tho WestwA .front. Mr. T. L. Woods, who has been manager of tho Blenhcm branch of the Bank of New Zealand since 1300, will retire on superannuation at the end of this month niter 40 years' service, during 28 of which he has been a manager. Mr. Woods's successor will bo Mr. B. A. Moore, who has reeemUy been aelimr as relieving manager at various branches. Mr. Walter Deverett, who was wellknown throughout the Dominion as an officer of the Lands and Survey Bewirtment, dved at Invcrcargill on Thursday night after a lingering illness. Mr. Deverell was born at Leamington, England, 67 years ago, and came to New Zealand at an early age. He entered the Survey Department in Dunedin, and was later" transferred to liwucargill, where he rose to the position of chief draughtsman. He was subsequently transferred to a similar position in Wellington, and later to Auckland. -Utei somo years in the north, Mr. Deverell applied, for'a transfer to Invcrcargill on account of family reasons. He wis . a man of exceptional ability in hip profession, and ga'ned medals and ilinlnmas at all the exhibitions in New Zealand and Australia hold up to recent years, for freehand drawing and manning. Mr. Deverell was res|ionsiblc for H>o Christchurch Exhibition maps.

Captain C. M'Donald, marine Miperj'i' lendent for tho Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd., who has been on a visit to San Francisco in connection with the alterations to the Mnkura, returned to Auckland by the Tahiti, which' arrived from Vancouver on Friday afternoon. Mr. J. W. Bcnnlnnd, Deputy-Mayor of Christchuroh, who has been on a visit to Australia, for six weeks, left Sydney for Now Zealand on Thursday.