PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 305, 18 September 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Recently elected Fellows of tho Royal Colonial Institute include :-Admival of the Fleet Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Fitzherbert, C.M.G., C.B.E. (Wanganui), Mr. J. B. Clarkson, Colonel Noel P. Adams (Nelson), Mr. W. R. Don (Dunedin), atid the following belonging to CliristchurCh: Mr. W. Orr Campbell, Mr E C. Huie, Mr. Denvs Hoare, Mr. G H, Merton, Mr. W. Murray, Mr. S. Paterson, Mr C. .1 E. Williams, Mr. Harry F. Nicoll Mr. B. E. H. Whitcombe, Mr. Frank Peter.

The New Zealand Newspaper Proprietors' Association hns selected the followin" to represent New Zealand at the World's Press Congress, to be held in Sydney next March and April i-Messra. Wm. M'Cnllough (Thames "Star'). J. M. Geddis (Wellington "Free Lance ), W. C. Whitlock (Hasting '.'Tribune ), Bobt. Dell ("Lyttelton Times'.'), 1 ? . W. «• Grevillo (Wellington "Dairyman ) A. L. Manning ("Waikato Tiroes"), Wm. lhom. as (Taimiarunui "Press , H. V. KinKan (Wanganui 'Herald', I;. J- Berry (Christchurch), G. C. Codlm ("-N.Z. Herald"), T C. List ("Taranab Daily News"), L. Blundell (Wellington "Post ), H. Brett (Auckland * v Star"), R. B. Bell (Wellington Dominion), C. G. Weston (Wellington Dominion), F. J. Earle (We - lington "PoBt"), P. Piramffei fling], and M. Cohen (Dunedin "Star"). The Press Association has appointed as delegates Mr. W. H. Atack and Sir George Fcnwick.- ' Mr H. G. Smith, general manager of the Phoenix Insurance ' Company and managing director of the Wellington investment Trustee Company, is leaving Auckland on September 23 .by the lalnti on a business visit to Fiji.

[ Mr Thomas Brown, head of the firm of Messrs. Thomas Brown; Ltd., coal and ooko importers, Wellington and Christchurch; died in the Hotel Australia, Sydney, on Monday night. Deceased, who was bom at Couper Angus, .Forfarshire, Scotland, about GS years ago, was for some years connected with the management of the Brminer Colliery (iiiriiigthe timo it was owned by the late Mr. Martin Kennedy. He afterwards entered jtho service of the Westport Coal Company, and represented it at Christclmrcb, but'for some yoaft past ho had been n; business on his own account lie has left a widow (his second wife) and a daughter by his first marriage. His daughter qualified for the medical profession, and is married to Dr. Pitts, o Wniraate, Canterbury. Mr. Brown had not been in very good health for «nn« time pnst. . His body is to be interred at Christchurch. I

Mr A Bain, 8.A., headmaster of the Waininto District and High School, has been appointed an inspector of schools, with Dunedin as his headquarters. Mr. Bain has been in charge of Waimate for three years, was previously headmaster at Gcraldine, and was also in Invcrcargill for some time.

W. S. Vernon, of the Auckland University College, will leave next month on ia visit-to Britain, and the United States.

Mr L. B. Grinistone, manager of the Gltham branch of the Bank of N«iV Zealand, will retire from tho bank's service f-t the end of November.

The Rev. H. J. Huffadino, tho newpastor of Trinity Congregation Church, Christchurch, left London by the Tainui on September 9, for tlio Dominion.

Dr. F. V. Bevan-Brown (Christchurch), who served throughout the war with a commission in the 11.A.M.C- has been admitted a member of the Royal College o£ Physicians.

Dr. T. Imxl Bennett, son of Mr. A. W. Bennett, of Cnshmore Fills, has obtained the degree of M.D., London University, axt also tho diploma of M.R.C.P., London. Ho has been appointed a physician to the Middlesex Hospital.

News has been received of the death of Lieutenant A. 11. Sutherland, of the 2!st Lancers, at Delhi, India, from enteric fever. Ho was the only son of Major T. and Mrs. Sutherland, of Manaia, and was an ex-pupil of the New Plymouth High School, whero he was pronunenf in athletics. Later ho took a military courso at tho Diintroon Military College, and on graduating joined tho 21st Lancers in India,

Mr. H. R. Hobday, of Auckland, arrived from tho south yesterday.

Many friends will regret tho death of Mr. Thomas George Baillie, which occurred at -Ilataitai ou Saturday hist, after a long and protracted ill.toss. The deceased was nn officer in tho New Zealand Railways, and had been stationed at Lambton for many years, He was born at IVton, and was one of the foundation member.* of tho Waitohi Football Club. Mr. Bail lie was a nephew of the Hon. Captain Baillie, and will be well rcmemborw by many Blenheim end Picton residents.