MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12614, 26 November 1926, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

Messrs T. L. Davies and T. BronA* belt, of Christchurch, are on a visit to, Wellington. Sir James Allen arrived in Wellington from the South yesterday. Sir Francis Boys, of Christchurch, is visiting Wellington. Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P.. returns to Wellington on November 29th. by the Maheno, from Melbourne. Lieutenant P. de la M. Barcham. of D Company, 4th (Wellington) Battalion, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Force's Long-service Medal.

The Council of the New Zealand Football Association last evening expressed its sympathy with a member of tho council, Mr J. A. Milburn. in a family bereavement. St. Stephen’s Church, Lower Hutt, at a meeting presided over by Rev. J. C. Loan,- Moderator, unanimously decided to send a call to Rev. J. E. Lopdell, of Wyndham, Southland. Mr A. W. Meiizies, chairman of the Auckland Football Association, was present , at the meeting of the council of the New Zealand Football Association last night. He returns to Auckland to-night. Mr H. Amos, secretary’ of the Rotary Club, of Wellington, has accepted an invitation to address an intercity Conference of Rotarv Clubs in Sydney on the 30th inst., and is leaving to-day by tbo s.b. Marama. Mr P. L. Pearless, at present with Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co. on a railway contract between Tauranga and Waihi, has been appointed engineer of the Tauranga County Council, vico Mr A. A. Woodward, who has resigned (states a Pre§s Association message from Tauranga). Mr G. S. Tomtinson, 0.8. E., M.C., of Messrs Tomkinson and Adam, Kidderminster, one of the largest carpet manufacturing firms in Great Britain, arrived at Auckland on the Aorangi on the 7th inst., and is making an extended tour of Canada, New Zealand and Australia, to study on the spot, the conditions and requirements of the carpet trade, and hopes to visit all the principal stores from Auckland to Invercargill. His firm has perhaps a special interest at the present time, as it was the one selected by the Duke of York for inspection on his visit to Kidderminster in July of this j’ear, and it also had the honour of being chosen to weave tho carpet presented to the Duke by the town as a souvenir of his visit; all the local manufacturers submitted patterns, and the design chosen by their Royal Highnesses was the one submitted by Messrs Tomkinson and Adam. It is a copy of an old Persian hunting carpet, and is destined for the Duke’s new London house. It is a knotted seamless carpet with nearly three million knots, and measures 27ft by 16ft Gin. Mr Tomkinson is a councillor of his native town, and president of his local chamber of commerce and Conservative Club. The death occurred last week at his residence, “The Glen,” Wakapuaka, Nelson, of Mr James Morrison, for a number of years superintendent of Nelson Asylum. Born at Peterboro, Aberdeensnire, Scotland, the late Mr Morrison gained his knowledge of diseases of the mind, under Dr. Storer Clouston, the famous Scotch alienist, at his hospital, •‘Morningside.” I)r. Storer Clouston was the lather of the well-known novelist, J.Storer Clouston. Mr Morrison filled several positions of responsibility ere he went to Nelson; at Mount View, then Porirua, also at Seacliffe and Sunnyside, Christchurch. For some years Mr Morrison took a keen interest in Farmers’ Union matters in Nelson, and also had several successes with Ayrshire cattle at the Nelson Show, bred under his management at the asylum farm. Mackay’a Bluff, the original name of the Glen, is not only a scenic spot in the Nelson province, but deserves to be remember, as the Wairau creek on the property, was the boundary of the historical invisible line which ran northwards from the Nelson province into the Wairau valley and„ south of which ‘ the Maoris were not allowed to come after the massacre of Captain Wakefield and his party at Tua Marina. Mr Morrison’s death was hastened owing to a chill caught while drafting sheep. There will doubtless be many persons who wilt remember him for his invariable courtesy and kindness shown to the relations of all who passed under his care. A Past Masonic Grand Master, Mr Morrison leaves a widow, two daughters and five sons, four of whom served in the Great War,