PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1941, Page 4

PERSONAL

Leading Aircraftsman Darral Ackerman, son of Mr and Mrs J. Ackerman, Totara Street, Lansdowne, is home on leave. The death has occurred of M. Nicolas Titulescu, a pominent Rumanian diplomat and politician, and former Foreign Minister, a cablegram from Cannes reports.

Dr McMillan, M.P., has been chosen as Labour’s Dunedin mayoral candidate at the forthcoming municipal elections. He has also been selected to stand for the hospital and harbour boards. Mr. F. H. Knowles, acting-custodian of Masterton Park was appointed permanent custodian by the Masterton Borough Council last night. The chairman of the Park Committee, Councillor G. D. Wilson paid a tribute to Mr. Knowles’s work over the past six months.

The death occurred yesterday of Mr. Rewiti Hemi (Jimmy Peehi), of Gladstone at the age of 49 years. The funeral will leave the residence of Mr. Eruha Kawara, Gladstone, on Friday, following a service to be held at 1 p.m. for the Gladstone Native Cemetery. At a meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last night, Councillor R. Russell expressed the council’s congratulations to the Mayor, Mr. T. Jordan on his being re-elected president of the Municipal Association of New Zealand for the sixth time. Councillor Russell stated that the matter was a great honour to Mr. Jordan and also to Masterton. The death occurred at York Bay yesterday of Mr Alfred Atkinson, who was a son of the late Sir Harry Atkinson, at one time Premier of New Zealand. He was born in New Plymouth and educated there and at Nelson College. On leaving school he took up surveying as a profession, but later became a dentist. He was 77 years of age. Mr Harry Atkinson, of Pirinoa, is a son.

Mr H. A. Young, S.M., senior magistrate in Christchurch, has achieved what is believed to be two records in service on the bench in either Australia or New Zealand. He has been a stipendiary magistrate for 37 years, and for 32 years of that period has not applied for any leave of absence. A search of the available records -indicates that no other magistrate in Australia or New Zealand can claim either distinction.

Cabled advice of the death in London of Mr Wyvern Wilson; who retired from the position of senior Stipendiary Magistrate in Auckland a little more than three years ago, has been received in Auckland. His father was the late Mr J. A. Wilson, Judge of the Native Land Court. Mr Wilson was born in Gisborne in 1876. He was articled to the late Mr Samuel Jackson in Auckland, and after qualifying as a barrister and solicitor he practised in Hawera, Pahiatua and Auckland. In 1911, when he was only 34, Mr Wilson was appointed a Magistrate and stationed at Nelson. Subsequently he presided over courts on the West Coast and in Wanganui, Christchurch, and Hamilton. Aften seven years in Hamilton he went to Auckland in 1933 to succeed Mr E. C. Cutten as senior Magistrate.