PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 301, 14 September 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr W J. Polson (Dominion president)’, Captain F. Colbeck (Dominion vice-president), and Mr. L. C. Jack (D minion secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union) will be leaving Wellington on Friday for Blenheim, on : a tour of tho South Island. They will discuss matters of special interest to farmers and endeavour to arouse and deepen the practical interest of farmers in all such matters as' directly concern them.

The death occurred on Monday afternoon at .his home in Timaiu of a veteran minister of tho New Zealand 1 Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Thomas Nca.ve. 'late of Kurow. He w“,>sAprn in Dundee in 1837, and 'ordained toXhe ministry in 1861. After three years m the parish of Perth, he spent twentythree years in Dorsetshire, where He came in content with many men of note. He was a personal friend of Thomas Hardy, the novelist, and of the late Bishop of Durham. Mr. Neave came to New Zealand in 1886. He was twelve and a half years at Riverton, and nearly eighteen years at Kurow. His wife predeceased 'him. He is survived by-three sons and five daughters.—Press Assn. The Rev. William Pannell, one of the oldest Methodist ministers in New Zealand. died at New Plymouth at the ago of eighty-five years. Mr.- Pannell camo to New Zealand i.n 1858, and entered the Methodist ministry as a probationer in Taranaki irf 1860. He served the church well in. many parts of New Zealand, and had made his home in Taranaki for the pa=t twenty-one years. He leaves a widow nnd five sons and five daughters. Dr Putnam has returned to Palmerston after a holiday trip to Sydney.

The death occurred at Tiniaru yesterday of Mr. Thomas Alexander Walker, a ‘retired ' schoolmaster. He yr-tts a native of Brighton, Sussex, and came (o New Zealand forty-five years ago. After some other appointments, he. was the first master of the Waimataitai school and later was an inspector of special schools He retired on superannuation five vears ago, and . lived , ill Wellington till last week, when he went to Tiniaru to spend the remainder of his life. Aro parentlv he was in good health, but he was taken ill yesterday morning. He leaves a widow but no children—Press Assn.

Mr. Alox Chcrniavsky, the well-known Russian musician, who has been in hospital in Auckland for the past three weeks, is now convalescent, and hopes to lie’ about again by tho end of the month, when he will leave for Sydney. Mr. Chcrniavsky is engaged to bo married to a Sydney lady. Miss Maio Cantor, nnd the wedding will take place shortly after his return to Australia.