PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1127, 15 June 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL

A. New York cable message states that Mr Coles Phillips, the prominent American artist, is dead. Members of the. Railway Head Ofliee staff assembled in Wellington to hid farewell to Mr R. A. Morris, who, alter almost 30 years service, is retiring on superannuation. He was presented with a Kaiapoi travelling rug, a dinner service, and a ease of cigarettes. Mr K. M. Hi Icy, formerly general manager of the New. Zealand railways. is going to South Africa for a i year as chairman of the Rhodesian J Rialway Commission for the Gov-' ernments of Northern and Southern I Rhodesia. “Sir Oliver Lodge has promised that the next long journey he takes will be to Sunny Nelson,” said Dr. Til Iva rd during a lecture at Nelson. In spite of his age. Sir Oliver was still one of the greatest scientists J alive, continued Dr. Tillyard. He was the real inventor ot practical wireless and lie put his pupil, Marconi, up- to the dodges which Inter made him famous. A family association with New Zealand extending over a period of 107 years can he shown by Mr Joseph Crisp, of Station road, Avondale, himself an octogenarian. Hr Crisp's hither, the bite Mr Botijn fin Crisp, landed at Wellington in Hay. 18*20. having- until then been a hov m the crew of a whaling ship which in that year put into the port. In 1842 he went to Nelson, 1 then- just founded by the New Zealand Company, and established himself in the carrying business, remaining a citizen of Nelson lor the rest of his liie.