PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10283, 19 May 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr H. E. Holland, M.P., arrived by the Mouowai. yesterday afternoon.

The Governor-General,..Lord Liverpool, arrived at Auckland yesterday from the Thames by tho Tutanekai.

Tlie Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald returned to Wellington from the south by the Monowai yesterday.

Lieutenant and. Mrs. Abraham arrived fom the south by the Arawa, oa Saturday.

Captain Bell, of the Royal Air Force, was a passenger on the Arawa, which arrived here on Saturday.

Captain Glenn, of the_ Royal Field Artillery, arrived in Wellington by tho Arawa on Saturday, accompanied by his wife.

Lieutenants H. M. Atkinson and E. H. Atkinson, of tho R.N.H.V., arrived in Wellington by the Arawa oil Saturday.

Sir William Fraser, Minister for Public Works, who has been visiting the Waiapu County, leaves, for Wellington by the Napier express to-day.

Air J. A. Warnock has been appointed to represent the Auckland City Council at the Dominion Town-plan-ning Conference in Wellington.

Dr Allan 'Thomson, Director of the Dominion Museum, who has been carrying out survey work in East Marlborough, returned to Wellington da Saturday evening.

Among the passengers who arrived at Wellington from the south by the Monowai vesterday were Messrs Stead and Clapeott, Mayor and corporation engineer respectively of Invercargill.

Mr Charles Harbottle, of the Union Company’s traffic department, left ■Wellington for Sydney by the Atua on Saturday night, accompanied by r«.r« Harbottle. He will remain in Australia for some weeks on holiday leave.

„ Mr E. J. Howard, who will represent the Canterbury Trades and Labour Council on the Town-planning Conference, to be held in Wellington this week, arrived by the Monowai yesterday afternoon. - .

Mr F. M. Oorkill, Assoc. .M. Inst., C.E., of Oriental Bay, having obtained his discharge from the. Hew Zealand Engineers in England,., has .been appointed an assistant-engineer in the Public Works Department Federated Malay States. With Mrs Corkill he has now settled at Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, and is engaged on antimalarial drainage work under the Ma* laria Advisory Board. *7

After a residence of seventy-two years in New Zealand, Mr Robert Massey, a highly-respected farmer of Pakuranga, died on Thursday. The deceased arrived at Howick with hil parents in 1847 by the ship Sir Robert Sale, being then , a child of fiv* years. Mr Massey spent his whole lift in the district. He is survived by his widow and one son, Mr William Massey. His other , son, Mr John Massey, died two months ago.

Mr F. R. Robertshaw, accountant of the Dannevirke branch of Messrs Barraud and Abrahams, has been promoted to take control of the land department of the firm, with headquarters at Palmerston North. During his long residence in Dannevirke Mr Robertshaw has been a popular figure in business, social and sporting circles, and he has actively associated himself’ with various patriotic and public movements for the benefit of the town. He takes up his new duties next week.

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