PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 120, 14 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Elliott Johnson, K.C.M.G., Speaker of the Commonwealth House of Parliament, has left on a visit to places of interest in the South Island. He will return to AVellington in a fortnight’s time. A Press Association message from Christchurch states that Mr. Massey arrived from the south on Saturday night. He was the guest of the Canterbury Progress League later in tlhe evening, and to-day he was taken on a motor inn to Akaroa. Mr. C. M. Malfroy, of Christchurch, has been officially appointed by the Public Service Commissioner as timber expert officer to the State Forest Service. Mr. Malfroy was formerly on the AVest Coast, where he was a prominent sawmiller.

Mr. F. H. Barten, who 'has for tho past six months held the position.of foreman to the Makara County Council, has resigned in order to take up a similar position with the Manaia Town Board. ’ ‘

Di - . R. Dorset, who lias been on the medical staff of the Napier, Hospital for the past seven years, has iesigned, and will leave shortly for Samoa, where lie has been appointed a Government medical officer.

Mr. Edwin Il'osking, barrister and solicitor of Ormoiidville, died suddenly after entertaining friends on Friday niriit (states a Press Association message from Dannevirke). He was well known in Alasonic circles, and was a vocalist of repute.

Mr. E. Dargaville hast resigned from the position of business inspector to the Auckland District Repatriation Board in order to proceed on a trip to England, Captain C. L. Nicholls, ex-adj«rant, 3rd Auckland Battalion of l‘he. New Zealand Expeditionary Force, returned to Auckland from England, via bjdney. by the Tofua on Wednesday. Captain Nicholls. who left New Zealand as a sergeantmajor with the Main Body m 1914, saw service in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France, raining commissioned rank in the lastnamed theatre of war. He held the rank ot eantain and adjutant ill the I’lftb I’oval Irish Lancers, but lie has now retired from the Imperial forces. The death occurred at his home in Cuba Street on Friday of Mr. John bredcrick Knell, who had been in business in Wellington as iv pork butcher lor the m«t forty years. The deceased, who strived from' Europe by the. Afghan, was in partnership in tins city with the at. Air Frederick Martin, and then started on 'his own account. .For some months nasi he had been m indifierent health. Lari Wednesday week he became suddenly ill. and he passed away quiet y yesterday, the cause of death being -linounmnia. For many years he was a member, of the Masonic fraternity and he was on the Mount took bchool Committee for tee year-. He has left a widow, three sons (Messrs. 1 ledei ok, Jules, and Benjamin kuch), and two daughters (.Miss-s Lej’a. and Rosetta Kuch). Mr. ,1. C. Kuch, ot Courtenay Place, is his brother. _

The Australasian Institute of Marino Enrineers has received advice that Mr. A 11. Hunter,'of the Vacuum Oil Com-t-.nv was, at the last meeting ot the Federal Council of the Institute of Manno Engineers, unanimously elected provident. Mr. Hunter, who served his apprenticeship in New Zealand, is a brother of Professor Hunter, of Victoria College. After ten-, years' varied experiences of all branches of the profession , .-i H.’iLiin and America, he passed • v?" iimtion for extra chief' engmesr In London in 1908, subsequently being sdniitted a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, London.

The annual report of the A\ ellington War Relief Association states: “There has been one resignation only during the year, that of Mr. E. J. Colley, who was compelled, as the result oi pressure of business and because of his ill-health, to relinquish his position on the Lxccii: ive Committee after lour years’ liiitliful service on behalf of those whom the association was designed to assist. At the moment the vacancy caused by Air Colley’s resignation, has not been filled.” The Rev. Eliot Janies Neale, for overeight years the vicar of the Anglican Church at AVaikouaiti, died in Christchurch on Thursday. He came north recently to spend a short holiday. Born in New Zealand, he was educated for the ministry' at Selwyn College, Dunedin.