PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 195, 13 May 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justice Frazer and members of the Arbitration Court are expected from Auckland to-morrow. Mr. Justice MacGregor left for New Plymouth yesterday. Mr. J. M. Gamble, who was formerly associate to His Honour Mr. Justice Salmond, has joined Mr. Justice Reed in tho same capacity. Mr. F. W. Furkert, under-secretary and engineer-in-chief of the Public Works Department, left Wellington yesterday by the Main Tiunk express in connection with departmental business at Auckland. Mr. Furkert is not expected t-o return to Wellington within a week. Mr. F. L. Ayson, director of fisheries, left for Auckland by yesterday’s Main Trunk express. Dr. and Mrs. Veitch arrived in Wellington yesterday by tho Main Trunk express.

Mr. and Dlrs. S. G. Nathan are leaving on a trip to England by tho Ruahine to-day.

Rev. G.'A. Dawson, of Otautau. was a passenger yesterday by the Main Trunk express for Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Verschaffelt were passengers by the Main Trunk express yesterday for Auckland.

Reference was made to the death of Mr. Stanley R. Rowley, recently in Sydney, at last night’s meeting of tho New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association. Mr. A. T. Davies said that the late Mr. Rowley, who had been treasurer of the Amateur Athletic Union of New Zealand and Australia, had done much for athletics in both countries, and had once been a prominent sprinter. A motion of sympathy was passed, all members standing.

Mr. G. C H. Davidson will leave for Sydney by the Maunganui, and will be absent from New Zealand for a month or six weeks. An Auckland Press Association message rejxirts the death of Captain Knun Kerruish, aged 99. He was born in the Isle of Man and went to sea ns a youth, first visiting Now Zealand sixty’years ago. On retiring from tho sea he went to Australia, and arrived in Auckland in 1903. Captain Kerruish belonged to a long-lived family, his sisters (twins) both living to the age of 100. He leaves a widow ami son.