PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. R. H. Pigott, chairman of the Clifton County Council, was a passenger for Te Kuiti by the mail train yesterday. Mr. John Ogilvie Brown has died at, Rotorua, aged 78 years. He arrived in Auckland in 1874, and resided there for 42 years, being employed by Macky, Logaij, Caldwell, Ltd., for over 30 years. Lord Northcliffe has arrived at Melbourne (says a cable message). He was officially welcomed by representatives of the Governor-General, the State Governor, and the Federal .and State Governments. ,

Mr. Alfred John Cross, of Normandale Street, Lower Hutt, died on Saturday morning at the Wellington Hospital, after a short illness. The late Mr. Cross joined the Public Trust Office in 1886, and during his long service with that . institution held various responsible positions, including that of assistant local deputy-public trustee at Auckland, and district manager at Gisborne. In recording the fact that, after a period of some 20 years in New Zealand and interprovincial cricket, Mr. D. Reese has anr mneed his retirement from interproviheial cricket, the annual report of the Canterbury Cricket Association states that the association wished to place on record its keenest appreciation of Mr. Reese’s services to Canterbury cricket, both as a player and as an official.

Mr. E. O. Hales, who at present holds the position of Deputy-Public Trustee at Auckland, has been appointed to carry bn temporarily the position of As-sistant-Public Trustee. The vacancy has been caused by the appointment of Mr. J. W. Macdonald as Public Trustee. As Mr. Hales is not a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court, the appointment cannot be confirmed until amending legislation is passed by Parliament.

A Nelson message reports the death in England of Mr. Joseph Henry Cock, managing director of J. H. Cock and Co., Nelson, Wanganui and New Plymouth. Mr. Cock was managing director of the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Co. He was one of the founders of the Nelson School of Music, and a leading citizen for many years. He gave £2OOO to the Returned Soldiers’ Club, and was a generous giver to worthy objects, including assisting promising music pupils in tuition abroad.

Although Mr. Maseey’s hour® of freedom are few and far 'between, says a letter from a London correspondent, he has been able to grant a few sittings to Mr. Hellaby, the Auckland artist, who is to paint the Prime Minister’s portrait. The work has not gone forward very much so far, but with the clsoe of the Imperial Conference, Mr. Massey will doubtless have greater freedom and more opportunities of sitting for the picture. It is /Mr. Hellaby’s intention to exhibit the :work first in London and subsequently in the Dominion.

The late Mr. Donald McDonald, whose death occurred last week, was 58 years of age. He was a native of Kingussie Inverness, Scotland, and came to the Dominion when about 21 years of age. settling first in Marlborough, where he did some shepherding on some of the big stations, and thence going to Hawke’s Bay, settling in Porangahau district, and being employed on Tautane station. For the last twenty yeaxs he had resided between Weber and Waitaiiora, and was regarded as “the father of the district.” Deceased was an ex u pert with stock of all descriptions, but specialised in breeding Lincolns. The death occurred on Sunday at Wanganui of Mrs. Kate Sophia Hutchings, a very old resident of Wellington, who was held in the highest esteem. Mrs. Hutchings was born at Wellington in 1847, and was the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Soloman Levy, who was one of the host known citizens there. Mr. George B. Levy, who recently retired from the post office on superannuation, and Mrs. J. G. Bollard and Mrs. Joseph Townsend (both of Wellington), and Mrs. John Marks (Sydney), are sisters. Mrs. Hutchings was pre-deceased by her husband in 1915. She leaves the following children: Mr. S. Huthhings, Dunedin; Mrs. T. H. Barnes, Ngaro. Wellington; Mrs. S. Guy, Ngaro, Wellington; Mrs. F. Abbott, Sydney; Mrs. Peter Lewis, Wanganui. Mrs. Hutchings’ uncle was Mr. Thomas McKenzie, well known in New Zealand literary circles, and at one time publisher of the New Zealand Independant'