PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 5 October 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL

Captain 0. F. D. Cook, who goes with the, New Zealand Expeditionary Force as second in command of the Napier I 1 contingent, is a son of the kite Profes- ' sor Cook, of Canterbury College. Caplain Cook was educated at Canterbury College, taking the degncs of M.A. and L.L.B. It is reported 1 that Mr. J. Crombie Scott, city electrical engineer at Christchurch, has resigned his position, owm" it was said, to the existence of strained relations (between himself and the electrical committee. On the resignation being accepted, Councillor McGullough resigned from the committee, as a protest against the action it had taken in the matter. His Excellency the Governor on Saturday held an investiture, at which Mr. Christopher James Pair, Mayor of Auckland, was invested with the insignia .* of a Companion of the iMost Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. Goorge. and Mr. Thomas Ronayne, late General Manager of New Zealand Railways, was invested with the badge of Companion of the Imperial Service Grder.—Press Association. iMr. Wilfrid Sim, the third son of his J Honor Mr. Justice Kim, who went f-om j Wellington to 1 Samoa with the first Expeditionary Force* has received several important appointments in Samoa. When the German officials were compelled to leave it became necessary to replace their administration, and Mr. Sim, holding the, qualification of barrister and solicitor, was. appointed Commissioner of Police, Crown Prosecutor, and Administrator of Native Affairs. A welcome home was tendered to the Hon. George Fowlds at Grey Lynn bv hi 3 election committees on Wednesday night. Mr. J. Jenkin presided over a very large gathering. Addresses were given by Messrs Nixon, Nieliol, S. C. Brown and J. Davis, chairmen of the nleetion committees, and by Mr. W. Holdworlh, general secretary. Mr. Fowlds, who was received with loud cheers, gave a short and interesting account of his visit to Europe, Great Britain and America. The death is announced of Mr. James Erskine, of Invcrcargill, at the age of seventy-three years. He wag born ' in Glasgow, and came to New Zealand 1 in the very oarly davs, arriving at Bluff lin ISfiO. The goldfields at first attracted him, and afterwards he took whatever work was offering "until lie entered the snwmilling trade at Otat.ira Bush, where for some* years he carried on business. Subsequently Mir. Erskinc acquired ai farm at Otatara and followed agricultural pursuits until about four years ago, when he sold the property to the Otatara Land Syndicate and settled at Invercargill.

air J. Lowthian Wilson, who represented the Christchurch I'ress in the North Canterbury district for the pi it fifty-one yeans, retired on Thursday. The "Press of that morning said:—''lt was given! to few men to Accomplish so runarkable a record, namely, to ho'd office for over luilf a century, and in this respect Mr Wilson enjoys a unique distinction in journalism. Mr Wilson's career is concomitant with the growth of the district to which he! has devoted the efforts of a lifetime. He was there in its first stages, he is still there in the days of its development, he will, it is hoped, 1»3 there for many years to coin'to mark with the patriarchal e} - e such further changes a* iray come about. . . . If anv man has earned the tifl' of the Grand Old Man of "North Canterbury, that man i fi Mr .1. L. Wilson."