PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 178, 22 April 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association cable message from Perth states that the Governor of West Australia. Sir Francis Newdegato, has resigned in order to attend private affairs in England. He has been absent from Britain for seven years. The death of Mr. William Eyre Kenny, formerly Director of Public Works in the Federated Malay States, and son of the late Judge Eyre Kenny, New Plymouth, is announced by a Press Association cable message from Sydney. The Rev. Father Daly, who has been Catholic parish priest at Dannevirke for about two years, is leaving that district shortly to take over the charge of the parish at Lower Hutt. it Press Association telegram from Auckland reports the death of Mr. John Lowden, aged 79. Between 1903 and 1921 he was Mayor of Mataura, and for ten years he was a member of the Southland Hospital Board and Bluff Harbour Board. He leaves a widow and family of six. Captain G. St. M. Stocker is a visitor to Wellington from China. The Rev. G. K. Aitken, newly elected Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Institution, is a Scotsman by birth,’ and well known minister of the Presbyterian Church. He studied in Glasgow to equip himself for missionary work in India, but for health reasons had to abandon that project. He sailed for Australia in 1883, and was appointed to the Presbyterian ministry in Queensland. During a residence of 23 years in the Duringa district lie was closely associated with pioneering and bush work in that State. He joined the Loyal Orange Institution in 1896, and has held various offices since. He lias been a resident of the Wairarapa since 1920, and is in charge of the Presbyterian Church at Featherston. Mr. G. E. Bunting, Australasian manager for the Canadian Government Marine, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Maheno from Sydney He left for Auckland by l&ot right’s exprexie.