PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 154, 17 March 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Harold and Lady Beauchamp left for Auckland by the Main Trunk express yesterday. They expect to return to Wellington about April 3. Mr. E. AV. Hunt has been nominated by the Academy of Fine Arts as a member of the Fine, Arts Committee set up in connection with tho British Empire Exhibition, vice Mr. J. F. (Miinnings, resigned. Mr. F. C. Renyard, director of the Masterton Technical School, has been appointed an inspector of manual and technical instruction.

The Christchurch correspondent of The Dominion telegraphs that Mr. Frank Dyer, of Wellington, has re-' turned to Christchurch from the south. Mr. Dyer, who is a keen angler, took tho opportunity of trying some of the rivers for trout, and he reports som<» good baskets at Queenstown. Hine sport was obtained at Moke Lake and Lake Kilpatrick, brown trout up to 31b. and 41b. being taken with fine tackle and dry fly. Mr J. T. A. Beaumont, who for the past six years has been on the staff of the Magistrates Court at Christchurch, has received notice that he is to be transferred to the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington.—Special Correspondent. The death occurred on Thursday at his residence, Halswell Street, of Mr. James Wilson Wallace, m his 67th year. Idle late Mr. Wallace was a native of Scotland. As a youth,he entered the service of Gordon M oodroffe, and Co., Indian merchants, London. but in 1882 he came to New Zealand on account of his health, and joined tho firm of Guthrie and Larnach. which ’ subsequently known as the Dunedin 'lron and Haidware Co., Ltd. In 1890 he was promoted to the position of manager for Walter Guthrie and Co., Ltd., Inveicargill, but in 1893 came to Wellington and started business on his own account in Wakefield Street. He took no prominent part in public aita’™> for many years past he has been wo 1 and favourably known in commercial circles in this city. Mr. C. G. Kirk, of the Wadestown School, has accepted a position at Marlborough College, Blenheim. Air. Alexander Tolhurst Young was yesterday admitted as a barrister and solicitor of tho Supremo Court by His Honour Air. Justice Chapman, on the motion of Air. A. Gra.y, K.C. Air. D. J. AlcGowan, who ha® just been elected president of the Wellington Alastor Carriers’ Association, tor the ensuing year, has also been asked to offer himself as a candidate for a seat on the Wellington Harbour Board in the interests of “payers of dues other than ships’ dues.”