PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 8, 5 October 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

j Vice-Regal. Hi.? Excellency the . Governor-General and Lady Jellicoe are to attend the - IChg's Theatre to-morrow ovening to witness the pictures of the flight from England to Australia, and to hear Sir , Keitu Smith's lecturo on 'the same sub- " Icct " li ■ The, following recent promotioni in the }' Post and Telegraph Department are announced:—Mr. J. C. M'Crea, assistant |, postmaster, Wellington, to ben chief post- y master, Napier; Mr. J. T. Wylio posU j, master, Hamilton to be chief' postmaster, Nelson; Air. H. G. M'Crea, head of mail [| staff, Auckland, to be superintendent of c , mail-i Wcllingtonj Mr. T. B. Salmon, a chief postmaster, Oamnru, has been transferred as relieving officer at tho General Post Office. A Press Association message from Syd- (fl i<ey announces the death of Mr. James A Mahioney, formerly editor of the "New v Zealand Mail," published in Wellington, w Mr. J. I. Fox, formerly manager of the P Returned Soldiers' Club, who is now set- ci tied on this land at Oringi, Feilding, is p visiting Wellington. , o; Mr. Walter C. Cuff, who for tho past t thirteen years has been clerk of the Hutt River Board, died suddenly yesterday morning at the residence of ono of his daughters (Mrs. H. G. Turner) in Burnoll Avcmio. Tho deceased, who was highly respected, was a very old settler in New Zealand. • For forty-one years ho was in the service of the Bank of Now Zealand. He joined its service six months after ai the bank was inaugurated, and for » d part of tho time was manager ut Grey- H town. He was afterwards on tho stall I? of the Assets Realisation Board. He J! has left a widow, a son (Mr. Charles ol Cliff, ono of tho inspectors of tho Bank n: of New Zealand), and four daughters T (Mead.imes C. It. Suisted, and 11. 0. tl Turner, of Wellington, Mrs. Percy Ruth- pi orfurd of Rhodesia, and Mrs. Alpe, of ti Auckland). The late Mr. Cuff, who was b over seventy years of age, was about as usual on Sunday, and tho news of hi« I) sudden death has come as a great shock k to his relatives and friends. u A private cablegram from London atinounces that Mr. H. M'Grogor Post, of tho liner Port Victor, has passed his exoneration for a socond mate's ticket. Ho is a son of Captain Post, of the Government steamer Tutanckai. Another sou (Mr. Colin Post) is an officer of thi i] Port Stephen, duo in Auckland from b London on October 13. g Mr. Andrew M'Kenzie, postmaster at Raetihi. died at Auckland last Wednes- j! dav. For many years ho was on the telegraph staff at Wellington, r and for piic years was postmaster at J' Grevtown North. Tho body was brought from Auokland to Wellington for interment. Mr. F. B. Wylds, accountant in the Ilawera branch of tho Bunk of Now T( Zealand, has been promoted te tho man- ft egoiship of the Hltham branch. _

M \ John Farrell, of J. C. Williamson's niiiuiagemeut atialf, left Auckland for Sydney by the ljiverina last week. News was received in Wellington yesterday of tho death, at ilasterton on Sunday of Mr. Thomas 11. Brown, for about a quarter of a century retail manager in Wellington for the Gear Meat Company. Mr. Brown had not enjoyed good lftalth for some time past. He leaves a widow and family. Mr. Oliver Duff, B.A. (Otago), diploma in journalism, who for three and a half years has been assistant editor of tho Christchurch "Sun," has been appointed editor of the Timaru "Herald" from early iu November.—Press Assn. Tho staff of the Auckland City Council met Mr. H. W. Wilson, the retiring town clerk, at tho Council Chambers on Friday afternoon, and presented him with a gold Kotherham watch, gold sovereigncaso, and a purso of sovereigns. Mr. J. Cnrlaw, city waterworks engineer, who made the presentation, referred to Sir. Wilson's long connection with the City Council, extending over twenty years. The Rev. William Henry Wilson died at Auckland on Friday at the age of 01, after an illness extending over several months. Mr. Wilson, who was a native of Yorkshire, England, was educated at Owen's College, Manchester, , and at Cheshunt College Herts, and wasordained deacon and priest in 1889. Ho went under the London Missionary Society to Samoa, where he remained for four years, during part of which he was British Consul and deputy-commissioner. Ho came to New Zealand in 18S8, and was curate at St. Stephen's Church, Eeefton, in the Nelson Anglican diocese, for several years. Subsequently, after being stationed for three years at To Awalnutu, he was appointed vicar of Paeroa in 1896. In 1901 he was appointed vicar of St. Luko's, Mount Albert, Auckland, where he remained until 1908. In 1910 he was transferred to St. Heliers Bay.