MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12621, 4 December 1926, Page 4

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

MINISTERIAL Hon. Mr Ha.wken and Hon. Mr Holleston Jeturned to Wellington yesterday. Hon. Mr Young leases for Hawke’s Bay to-day. Dr James Hight arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday. Mr John Farrell is in Wellington arranging for the season of the Gilbert and Sullivan Comic Opera Company in Wellington, opening on December 14 th. Mr H. J. Wynne, signals engineer, and Mr G. V/. Wyles, assistant signals engineer, of the New Zealand Railways Department, left for Auckland last evening. Mr Richard Brown, who has been for some years accountant of the Wellington Hospital Board, has been appointed acting-secretary until a successor is appointed to Mr John Coyle, who lias been appointed secretary-superin-tendent of the Newcastle Hospital. Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., has been appointed chairman of the Licensing Committee for the districts of Oroua and Rangitikoi, vice Mr R. M. Watson, S.M., and Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., chairman of the Licensing Committee has been appointed for the district of Otaki, vice Mr Stout. Mr F. Knight, formerly deputy registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland, who has been appointed registrar of the Supreme Court and Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North. left on Tuesday to take up his new duties. He was presented by his colleagues in Auckland with an inscribed attache case. Advice has been received of the sudden death in Calcutta of Mr William B. Kirkwood, who was for a number of years a public accountant at Auckland. He enlisted for service in the Great War, and was appointed to the headquarters staff, ultimately rising to the position of assistant-direc-tor of movement, and quarterings •noth the rank of Major. After the Armistioe hi was sent to England to adjust the accounts between the New Zealand Government and the Admiralty,. and while in England he was aj>pointed t-o the position of Assistant Income-tax Commissioner in India, at a salarj' of £2OOO per annum, and special privileges. Mr Kirkwood underwent a slight operation on September 16th. Complications set ill, and he died on the following day. Ho was to have taken eight months’ leave of absence in December.