PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-IISGAL. .His Excellency the Governor-General, who has returned from a visit to the West Coast, presided at a meeting of the Executive yesterday. He will remain in Wellington until Monday next, when he will leave for Napier en route to GisIxiriie and the East Coast. Following that trip he will proceed on to Auckland, where he is due to go into' residence early in May.

The Minister for Public Work 6 (Hon. J. G. Coates) has arranged to leave for Auckland and Dargaville to-morrow night.

Ou .Monday, afternoon the executive officers of the Chief Telegraph Office met in the superintendent's room for the purpose of saying farewell to one of their number, Mr. H. P. Donald, telegraph supervisor, who had received notice of transfer to the position of postmaster at Picton. A set of solid silver teaspoons was presented to him on behalf of those present by Mr. A. J. Talbot, superintendent, who, in the course of his remarks, said lie regretted the transfer of Mr. Donald from such a busy telegraph office as Wellington to a poet office. Mr. Donald was an excellent telegraph officer, and his undoubted technical and other abilities, which were valuable assets to the telegraph branch, would be practically thrown away in Picton. Mr. Donald had served nine years as an executive officer in idle Wellington Telegraph Office, and had proved himself a highly capable, zealous, and ever-courteous officer, and his transfer was a distinct loss to the Wellington office in particular, and the telegraph branch in general. Other supervisors spoke of their regret at parting with Mr. Donald, stressing the good-fellow-ship nnd harmony that had always existed between Mr. Donald and his fellow, officers. Mr. Donald thanked all present for their gift and kind wishes, and said he felt keenly the breakaway from a branch in which he had spent so many yeans.

Mr. James Sugden Hanna has been admitted a barrister of the Supremo Court by His Honour Mr. Justice Reed, on the motion of Mr. W. Perry. Mr. G. S. Clark, deputy-registrar of the Supreme Court at Wellington, is at present on annual leave. Ho is being relieved by Mr. F. Knight, deputy-regis-trar at Dunedin. Mr. Claude Channon Hill was yesterday admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by His Honour Mr. 'Justice Reed, on the motion of Mr. J. E. Ray.

Mr. L. T. Tisdall, of Wellington, left for England yesterday aboard the Rimutaka.

Mr. D. P. Fisher was yesterday elected a member of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Arthur J. Rigg, of. Messrs. John Rigg and Co., is about to pay a visit to America and the United Kingdom. Mr. L. A. Edwards has been appointed to represent the Central Chamber of Commerce on the council of the Workers’ Educational Association. Mr. J. L. Morrison. New Zealand representative for Messrs. I. and R. Morley, of England, left by the Rimutaka yesterday for Home.

Mr. James Walker Hamilton, one of Otago’s early settlers, has died at Seacliff, aged eighty-one years. Deceased was educated at Watson College, Edinburgh, and came to New Zealand in 1850, landing at Wellington, but going on to Otago the same year. He participated in the rush to Gabriel’s Gully, and opened a store on the diggings. Later ho was a general merchant in Oamaru till his retirement from business some years ago. Deceased was well known in bowling circles. The deat h has occurred of Mr. Edward Charles Horner, for many years secretary to the Patea Harbour Board and clerk to the Patea County Council. The late Mr. Horner was born in Essex, England, in 1851, and was a son of Mr. Robert Horner, veterinary surgeon, Palmer-' ston North. Ho was educated at St. Nicholas College, Brighton, and was trained as a clerk in London. He left England in 1867 in the ship Electra, and after a good deal of pioneer work in the Rangitikei, Wanganui, and other parts of the coast he established himself in Patea, in 1881, since which time he had held various positions of trust and responsibility. The Beard of Managers of the Masterton Technical School have appointed Mr. F. C. Renyard, B.Sc., as full-timo director of the school. Mt. Renyard, who was chosen from among 38 applicants, is at present first special assistant at the Feilding High School. He received his degree at the London University, and was for many years engaged in teaching in English schools.' During the war he was selected to lecture to officers on mapmaking’and map-reading, and was later employed by the Ministry of Munitions on special work connected with shell and steel manufacture, and electrical plant. Mr. Renyard wiill commence his duties at the beginning of June. Mr. A. J. Rigff, manager of Messrs. J. Rigg and Company, was a passenger for England. by the Rimutaka yesterday. Northern files record the death of Mr. W. Tierney, who was formerly wellknown in sporting circles. The deceased, a single man, was accidentally killed at Messrs. Harkness and Lunon’s sawmill at Arero, 12 miles from Tokomaru Bay, through being struck on the chest by a log being thrown back from the saw. Mr. Tierney, who was born in Thames, and for some years followed the occupation of a carpenter, was well-known to sportsmen, being one of the best bicycle riders New Zealand has produced. He represented New Zealand at international sports in Englund and Paris. Dis record for one mile stul remains unbroken. Deceased was also known to old footballers.