PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. N. Day, of Hamilton, and ormerly of the staff of the New Plymouth Boys’ High School, is at present on a visit to New Plymouth.

An Ashburton message states that Mr. Dickie’s funeral on Sunday last was the largest and most representative held in the district. The Government was represented by the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, and Parliament by Messrs. C. A. C. Hardie and G. Witty, also local body representatives. Messages of sympathy were received from members of Parliament and others.

A Wairoa message reports the death of Mr. Janies Miller Dickson, Government caretaker at the Lake House, Waikaremoana, at the age of 35. He was a leading athlete, especially in wrestling, and at the outbreak of war joined the Samoan ferce. When serving there he co-ntraetpd malaria, which undermined his health, and from which he never recovered.

A very old resident of W’anganui, Mrs. J. Streeter died at her son’s residence on Sundao morning. Her husband, the lato, Mr. J. E. Streeter, met his death by drowning ten dayj ago : and from that time the deceased’s health rapidly failed. Mrs. Streeter was 83 years of age and had lived in Wanganui from the time of her arrival in the Dominion, nearly half a century ago. She is survived by two daughters and two sons—a married daughter in Gisborne and Mrs. Barrett, Feilding, and Messrs. .E Streeter, well-known in Hawera, and F. Streeter, of the Eastown Railway Workshops. Relative to the announcement that Sir Ernest Rutherford is to succeed Sir J. J. Thomson as President of the Royal Institution, the Daily Chronicle characterises the selection as a “notable” one (says a London correspondent). Sir Ernest, though still under 50, had attained a more than British fame. “He is the greatest scientist New Zealand has produced,, and he came over to Cambridge after receiving hie early education in his native country. After valuable research work at Cambridge, he went as a profesegr to Manchester University in 1907, and then returned to Cambridge as Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics. He did great work for the country on the scientific side of the war. Sir Ernest is a Taranaki boy, his father and mother living in New Plymouth. Mr. J. V. Wilson, a former atudent of the Boys’ High School, Christchurch, and graduate of Canterbury College, has won yet another success in his brilliant career at Cambridge University. Notification had just been received that he has been awarded the Person Prize. The prize, established in honor of the famous classical scholar, Person, is awarded for excellence, in Greek verse composition. Mr. Wilson, who was an gffieer in the 2nd Battalion, Canterbury Regimeht, is a holder of a N.Z.E.F. scholarship at Trinity College. In addition to college prizes, Mr. Wilson has won a college a first-class in Part 1.. Classical Tripos, and thtf *Craven Soholar-