PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 17 November 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Rev. W. G. Rollings, who for the past twelve years has been pastor of the Brooklyn Baptist Church, has resigned his charge. Mr. H. R. Mackenzie, chairman of the Auckland Harbour .Board, is a passenger on the Niagara, which sailed from Vancouver on Wednesday. Mr. Gilbert Haldane, of Melbourne, an old Nelsonian, who for the last year has been acting as DirectorGeneral of the Postal, Telegraph, Telephone, and Wireless Services for the Commonwealth of Australia, is in Wellington on holiday leave. He is accompanied by Mrs. Haldane, and is the guest of his brother, Mr. John Haldane, of Lyall Bay. His Eminence Cardinal Ccretti, the Pope's Legate, who attended the recent Eucharist in Sydney, will be in Auckland on Monday, en route, for Europe. A reception which will be tendered to him in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland, at S o'clock, will be broadcast by IYA. The combined staffsofi Messrs. Brodrick and Co., Ltd., and the Fur Trading Co. of New Zealand, Ltd., gathered at the Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association yesterday evening to make a presentation and bid bon voyage to their warehouse manager (Mr. L. IT. Green), who leaves by the Aorangi on Tuesday next on an extended business tour of Canada, Amer-J ica, and Europe. The many friends of Mr. John Lowry will regret to hoar of his death, which took place this week at his residence, 150, Cuba street, Petone. The funeral took place at the Taita Cemetery on Thursday, and was largely attended. The service at the graveside was conducted by. the Rev. Mr. Ramson. Mr. Lowry was the second oldest member of the Petone branch, of the Oddfellows. Ho arrived at Wellington.. with his parents, in the pioneer ship. Oliver Laing, in 1858, and was oiio of the oldest residents of Petone, having lived in that town for over fifty years. He went to work at the Gear Company in 1877. The deceased leaves a widow, three daughters (Mrs.. F. Elbe, of Lower Hutt, Mrs. S. Wogan, ; of Petone, and Miss Merlyn Lowry), and tfrree sons (Mr. Frank Lowry, of Upper Hutt, Mr. W. A. Lowry, of Christchurch, and Mr. Clifford Lowry, of Petone), and twelve grandchildren. The untimely death of'Mr. H. P. R. Caughey in Auckland cuts short a promising career. - The late Mr. Caughey was born in 1893, and since attainment of manhood had been taking an active part in the affairs of the firm of Smith and Caughey, Ltd., the well-known Auckland drapers. He was associated with the educational and philanthropic side :■ of the Methodist Church, being chairman, of the Wesley College Trust Board for: three years. It was mainly: due to. Mr. Caughey's initiative that the . Auckland Educational Society was formed about two years ago, to bring about closer coordination between the trades and professions and the schools. Mr. Caughey was appointed . vice-president 'of the society, and it was considered among its members practically certain that he would this year have become tho president. In the Auckland Chamber of Commerce Mr. Caughey held the position of vice-president, :■ and it was while representing . the chamber at tho conference : of the central body that he was elected president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Now Zealand. Mr. Caughey leaves a widow, who was Miss L. D. Page, daughter of Mr. A. W. Page, of Mount Albert, and three children, the eldest ton years of age.l. . ■■' ■ - ■"'■' ■' ,'