PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 106, 7 May 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Minister of Justice (the Hon. F. J. Bollestou) will leave by the Limited express this evening for Foxtou, where ho will inspect tho Courthouse to-mor-row morning. Subsequently he will visit Flock House. Mr. Rollcston will return to Wellington to-morrow ingMr. D. O. Williams is leaving to-day for tho Massey Memorial College at Palmerston North. Mr. A. Jacobs, of tho firm of G. Thomas and Co., who has been on a brief visit to Rarotonga, returned to Wellington by the Makura to-day. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch reports the death of Mr. Robert Bowman Lowdon, manager of tho Railway Workshops, Addington. Mr. J. A. Dickinson, of Los Angeles, California, was a passenger by tho Makura, which arrived hero this mornA Christchureh Press Association message announces the .death of Major James Alfred Northcoto, of Waiau. He was formerly a, prominent Volunteer officer, and was 67 years of age. Mr. C. Yumvcly, managing director of Jenne ay Co., Batavia, who has been on a world tour, 13 « through passenge;' by the Makura, which arrived at Wellington to-day from San Francisco. A Press Association message from Nelson reports the death of Mr. George Malcolm Rout, aged 65 years. The Into Mr. Bout was for many years one of Nelson's leading business men and secretary oi tho Pennant Building Society, lie also served previously for man}' years on the City Council and. Hospital Board, of which for several years ho was chairman. The death of! Dri James- Maepherson occurred at Hamilton on Saturday, states "The Post's" Auckland correspondent. Dr. Macpherson, who was 71 years of age, was born in Perthshire, and after coming to Now Zealand practised his profession in Dunedin. He served in the Medical Corps during the war, and on his return was appointed to the medical staff of the Porirua Mental Hospital. For several years priorto his death lie was superintendent of the Toltanui Mental Hospital. Ho is survived by a widow and adult family of four —Dr. Douglas Macpherson (San Francisco), Mrs. A. K. Watson (Peebleshire, Scotland), Mrs. F. Yates (Wellington), and Mrs. A. W. Skniiier (To Awamutu).