PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 5 September 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. T. A. Murphy has been appointed by the Wellington Education Board to the position of assistant at the Muritai School. Mr. H. E. Stephens, London representative of the New Zealand Fruit Export Control Board, leaves London for Now Zealand on 14th September. Ho will return to England after a brief stay in the Dominion. The funeral of tho late Mr.f George Welling, an old identity of Karcri, took place at the Karon. Cemetery this morning, the interment being private. Tho Bey. G. Y. Woodward officiated at the graveside. Many beautiful floral tributes were placed on the grave of the deceased. Mr. W. T. Goodwin, of the horticultural division of the Department of Agriculture, who went to the Argentine, Brazil, Canada, and the United States on behalf of the Fruit Export Control Board to investigate the possibilities of extending tho market for New Zealand 'fruit in those countries, will leave San Francisco by the Makura, which is due at Wellington on 22nd October. A life of service to seamen was endod suddenly yesterday afternoon by tho death of Mr. Arthur Preston Cowie, at his residence in Park avenue (telegraphs "The Post's" Auckland correspondent). Mr. Cowie, who was 53 years of age, was born at Old Bishopcourt, Parnell. Ho was the youngest son of Bishop W. G. Cowio, and a brother of Archdeacon E. M. Cowio, of Hamilton, and tho Bey. J. P. Cowie, vicar of Pukekohe. For eighteen years he ' was the missioned at the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, but more recently had conducted the Mercantile Marine Mission. Prior to his mission, work in Auckland, he had performed a similar service at Moturoa, . New ' Plymouth, among the fishermen. Before his appointnftnt as naval chaplain in Auckland, Mr. Cowie conducted services on the war sloop Veronica. He leaves a wife and a step-son. ,