PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10280, 15 May 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

His Excellency the Governor-General and .ihs. Conn ness of Liverpool left Auckland yesterday by the Government steamer Talanekai for W’iiangarei. They will visit Tauranga and Thames, returning to Wellington by the Main .Trauls express on Sunday evening.

Lieutenvnt H. S. Dyer, of the New ■Zealand Slail Corps, has resigned his position.

Captain 1?. V. Storkey, V.C., of Napier, has Uven appointed associate to Mr Justice A anger Owen, of Sydney.

Sir Robert Stout has been reappointed as a Government nominee on tha, Victoria College Council.

Mr D. Aiken., general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived at Wellington from south yesterday morning. Ho expects to leave for Dunedin ihisi evening.

Dr Averill, Bishop of Auckland, who has been attending the Anglican Synod at Napier, was a passenger by the Napier mail train yesterday as far as-Palmerston NSrth.

Brigadier-Gencn-.l H. E. Hart, C.M.G., D. 5.0., arrived in Wellington last evening by the Napier express in order to bo prcst-T at the reception to ATajor-Genera.l Sir Andrew Bussell.

Sir Edward Gibbes, formerly Secretary to the Education Ditnartment, has been appointed as Government nominee on tho .Board of Governors of the Wellington '-Colleges.

Mr J. Ooyle, secretary oS the ’Wellington Hospital Board, who\ has been on active 'service-for some tii'Ha, is expected to return to New Zealand next mouth. \

Air Arthur Leaver, Mayor of'("Westport, was elected chairman of \ tiller Hospital and, Uhscritable Aid Jjiard yesterday, vice Mr D. J. Willi sms, who resigned -owing to pressure of private business.—Press Association. \

Tho death'is announced of Air Benjamin Bufiterworth, at Auckland, yhp for many years waa overseer of railway and bridge construction work. Tho late Mr Butterworth arrived i» Auckland in 1885, and was in his ninety-first year.

Alter his installation yesterday, the M/lyor referred to the loss the corporation staff sustained by the death of Mr James Moßean, who had been on the staff for a number of years, and was, Air Luke said, one of the most promising officers in the service.

Air T. A. B. Maskew, of Christchurch, who recently retired from the mail-room staff of the G.P.0., held the record for continuous service in the Christchurch Post Office,' his period of duty covering forty years aud seven months.

Mr Frederick Hobhs, town clerk at Westport, lias received notice of ms' appointment to the position cf town clerk at Lyttelton (states a Press Association message). Mr Hobbs,, besides fulfilling his municipal duties, has acted as secretary to a large number of •'nolle and semi-public functions - at Vrrstport.

Tho following officers have beet elected by the New Zealand Aliners’ Federation: President, Mr " P. O’Rourke; vice-president, Air J. McBride ; ■ executive, Messrs A. i Tosoland (Buffer district), R. Spencer (Grey district), J. O’Brien (Northern district), P. Nivin (Southern district), J. APipe (Waihi district). A new election for the position of national secretarytreasurer is to be held on Alay 22hd.

Corporal JR. S. Moloney, the wellknown Christchurch baritone singer of pre-war days, returned by the Kia Ora, with a record of over four years on active servicO. For a time Corporal Moloney was a prominent member of the New Zealand Divisional Concert Party, “The Kiwis;.” who gave mahy cxcoflent entertainments to the -New Zealanders in the fighting zone oh the Western front.

Mrs Susan Adlington, who died at Auckland on Monday, at the age of eighty-nine, had resided in New Zealand for fifty-two years; 'She af’rived in Auckland by the ship Maori, with her husband, the late Mr Robert Adlington, and a family of four, on January 24i11, 18G7. Mr and Mrs Adlington were engaged in farming in tne Wbanga.rei district for many years up to the time of Mr Adliugton’s death, in 1893.

Lieutenant David Hunter Blair, & grandson of the late Mr R. H. Rhodes, of Elmwood, Christchurch, was amongst the British prisoners recently repatriated from Germany. Lieutenant Blair was captured early in the war, and during his long imprisonment he studied German and Russian with such, good effect that, the was able to pass examinations in both languages on bis return to England. ' lie has now been appointed a major attached to the Intelligence Department. '

The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister for Lands, leaves VVollington on Monday to inspect the soldier settlements at Dannevirke and Takapau. The Minister will meet a deputation from tho local bodies of tho district at Dannevirke on Tuesday,' and on ..ednesday morning ho is to inspect some land offered to tho Government for settlement purposes. If time permits, ho will also visit tho new soldier settlement land to be balloted for immediately at Taratu, some two miles outside of Dannevirke. Mr Guthrie is due back in Wellington on Wednesday evening, having to meet on Thursday morning an important deputation from the Manawatu dairy farmers and the Dominion Butter Committee.

Captain R. Kidd, N.Z.M.C., who was on Monday appointed reaidpet medical officer, Ashburton Hospital, graduated M. 8., Ch.B-, at Duvjdin in September, 1915, taking a hijh place both in the class and professional examinations. After graduating he was appointed house surgeon to tie Christchurch Hospital, winch positton be relinquished at the end of s ye ol to proceed with the N.Z.E.T?. _ VJiS for several months with thy .Sew Zealand No. 1 Stationary Hospital at Amiens, and then with tho'hirst Field Ambulanco until ho was, wounded at Mcssincs. When convalescent ho returned to. New Zealand, and for the last eighteen months he has been assistant to the Director of Medical Services in Christchurch. ■

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