PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 55, 28 November 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Francis Bell left Wellington for Auckland on Saturday to attend the official opening of tho Trounson Kauri Park, Kaihu, by the Governor-General. Viscount Jelliooe. ■, j A Christchurch Press Association’ message announces tho death of Mr. George L Stevenson, of Messrs. Stevenson, Stewart and Co., the shipping firm, which owns the Bay steamers Cygnet and: John Anderson. He was 55 years of age. Mr. Howard Coverdale, a New Zealander who is at Cambridge University, arrived home on vacation by tho lonic yesterday. Ho will spend six weeks in the Dominion.

A distinguished visitor to the Dominion, who arrived by the lonic from London yostoixtay, is Colonel Sir A. Mayo-Robson. K.8.E., C. 8., C.V.O , etc. Sir Arthur Robson, who intends to enjoy a fishing tour here, was in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and served with distinction in the campaign on the Gallipoli Peninsula and with tho British armies in France. He was created a Knight in 1919. Di he received the C. 8., and in 1911 the C.V.O He is also a Doctor of Science, Fellow ot the Royal College of Surgeons, and a Knight of Grace of the Order oL St John of Jerusalem. He is the author of several standard medical works, and is an ardent huntsman and angler. He is accompanied by his daughter. Miss E. Mayo-Robson. Mr E. D, McLennan has been appointed a member of tho Board of Agriculture vice Mr. I. Massey, who has resigned. Mr W. .Fitzherbert, of Palmerston, who ’has I been in England for six months, returned to Now Zealand by the lonic yesterday. Mr. J. J- McGrath will leave by the Ulimaroa on Friday week on a tour of Irivpt, Europe, and Great Britain. Mr McGrath, who will bo away , for about six months, will bo accompanied by Mrs. McGrath, and will return via America. A New Zealander who has had a splendid educational record in England fe Mr. W. H. Cocker, who arrived in Wellington yesterday by the lonic. At the end of the war he was appointed to take charge of the economics classes at Sling Camp, being later given .a scholarship which took him to Cambridge Umvrisity for two years, where he took his degrees in economics. For two years in succession he wa-s tho lecturer at the Oxford W.E.A. summer, school He is a son of the Rev. J. Cocker, of Masterton. The Jewish people of Auckland on Thursday night formally farewelled the Hon. Arthur M. Myers, who is alwut to leave New Zealand to join Ins wife and family in London. In a gathering at tho synagogue, at which Mr. Myers was tho guest of the congregation, Mr. N- A. Nathan made a presentation of an lUu " minated address, bound in suede leather, and containing such characteristic Auckland views as Rangitefo Island, Grafton Bridge, Myers Kindergarten, Cornwall Park, end the Town Hall. The gift, elated Mr. Nathan, was made as a token of remembrance io Mr. Myers from hie co-religionists of Auckland. In returning thanks, Mr. lilyers remarked, while his future was in the lap of the gods, he did not feel that, he was saying goodbye to Auckland. His mother and other members of his family, and many of Ins business interests remained .there, and ho expected to pay return visits to the city where he had spent so many happy years. \ The friends of Mr. J. R. Robertson, nresident oT the Railway Officers’ Institute. will Iro sorry to learn of the death of his mother, which occurred at Wanganui yesterday.