PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10603, 31 May 1920, Page 3

PERSONALIA

The Minister" for Education, tb# Hon. C. J. Pan-, has returned to Wellington from hi s northern tour.

Colopol J. McNaughton Christie, o) Wellington, was visiting Scotland when Iho last' mail left.

Mr J. C. Williamson, chief inspector of the Post and Telegraph Department, who recently resigned on superannuation, has left on a trip to Australia.

Mr Gifford Marshall, Crown Prosecutor/ of Wanganui; who recently .journeyed! to England, has been visiting ths South,, of France.

. Mr- Warren Newth, the taxi-driver who-,.was injured in the motor-car collision, at-Sandon, is suffering from concussion, and still very ill.

Mr J. E. Green, who has been superintendent of the Telegraph Department at.' Wanganui, has received' advice of Iris promotion to the position of assistant-superintendent at ‘Auckland.

A visitor to Wellington at the weekend was Mr B. E. Booth, of Dunedin, who will be remembered as a member of the famous “All Black” Rugby foot ball team.

Major Kirkwood, who recentlv arrived in London to wind up the business of transporting troops, etc., to New Zealand, has been attached to the New Zealand offices in. the Strand.

The Hon. J. G. Coates. Minister for Public Works, left for the north on Saturday. He will return to Wellington in about a week and subsequently will visit) the Napier and Gisborne districts.

On the eve of his leaving the dis trict. Mr J. R. Lowes, a vice-president of the Eketahuna Club, was accorded a farewell and presented with a handsome letter-case. Mr Loweg was also made an honorary life member of the club. ...

Mr Farquhar Young, of Christchurch, has been appointed to judge the elocutionary, debating, and oratorical sectiona of the West Coast Competitions. This, will be the fifth year that he has so acted. Mrs Young ia to judge the vocal and instrumental sections.

Colonel Foljambe, nephew.and heirpresumptive of Lord Liverpool, Go-vernor-General of New Zealand, who was recently injured while ridiu" over hurdles, and had to have a les amputated; *' was making splendid progress towards recovery when the last mail left England.

Mr Vincent Kerr Taylor, whose death recently occurred, was the eldest surviving son of the late Allan. Kerr Taylor, one of the early residents 4a the Mt. Albert district. Mr Taylor was for manyyears a member and chairman of the Waitemata County Council, and member of the Auckland Harbour Board.

Dr Hector B. Mackenzie, son of the High Commissioner, who some time ago resigned his appointment as doctor in the Mile End Infirmary in London in order to study for the recentlyinstituted diploma of radiology and medical electrology (Cambridge), i s now attending King’s College Hospital, St; Bartholomew’s Hospital. University College Hospital, and Charing Cross Hospital.

Brigadier-General Archibald . Jack, who recently received three decorations (0.8., and C.M.G.7 in one day at Buckingham Palace, is an old Dunedin High School boy. who had done three years’ war service. A civil engineer by calling, be put in most of his service in Siberia on the railway, and was twice montiond in dispatches'. Finally, he was incapacitated through illness and returned to Eng- > land, where he: recovered. He has now gone to Havana, where he -takes up a railway post that has been waiting him for a considerable time.

’Mr Harry Somes, pf the U.S.S, Cods permanent wharf staff, has resigned from the service of the company after 25 years’ service. A smoke concert was held by the U.S.S. Co. permanent wharf staff m Ins honour. Mr John Currie, head foreman, on behalf of the staff, presented Mr Somes with a handsome case of pipes and tobacco pouch. During the evening songs and dances were contributed” bv Messrs Currie, O’Leary, Fraser, Hackett, Taylor, Ahern, Lamont, Allen, and Captain Huggms. Messrs Harms and Lawrence presided at tb* piano. ; *

In “Punch’ b'taf March 3rd« last,- un< der the heading of “Oud Booking Office,” apepars the following appreciative reference to - the late Noel Bo:®. The writer savs: —“Of the late Mi Noel Ross, who, to the infinite loss of British journalism, died at the early age of twenty-seven, Mr Punch cannot trust himself to speak with the cold detachment of the critic. He saw life with the clear eye of happy youth, and set it down with the easy pen of a ready writer. Coming from New Zealand, through the war, to England, his natural talents were at once rccognisod, and he won a position for himself on tho staff of the “Times. ’ In tlio : leisure* moments ’spared * from ' tho services of the Old Lady of Printing House square, ho would crack a jest, now am- then, with the Old Sago, of Bouvcrio street. Mr Edwin Arnold now publishes a collection of Ins writings under tho title, “Noel Ross and His Work,” and Mr Punch confines himself to commending the volume tv his readers.”

Mr William Brown, whoso death at the ago of 81 occurred last Wednesday from pneumonia, and the shock of being knocked down by a tramcar, was for many years one of Wellington’s strongest etiess players. In his young or days lie was a. prominent Member of the Bath Chess Club. He joined the Wellington Club in ISS3, and played bis last game - there" " only throe weeks ago. He also was an enthusiastic member of the Working- Men s Club. Ho scored many successes in local tourneys and matches, and also when representing Wellington in telegraphic contests against other centres. He also took part in several New Zealand' congresses, his best bid for the Dominion championship being made at Dunedin in tho 1893-4 tourney, when ho ticul for second place with two champions. Messrs It. J. Barnes and It. A. Cleland. Ho'was tho sole, survivor of those who competed at the 1888-9 congress. Although not a prizewinner on that occasion, he had the satisfaction of scoring from tho then champion (Air Hookhnm) in the final round. He ‘’slackened off” after reaching the “three score years and ten.” hut was able to play a very forccful game right up to tho last-