PERSON AL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 270, 20 August 1925, Page 8

PERSON AL ITEMS

The Hon. G. J. Anderson left for Auckland bv the Limited last evening. He will attend and open the Auckland Winter Exhibition this afternoon, and will probably return to Wellington bv the express, arriving here to-morrow morning. The Hon. A. D. McLeod is to leave on Monday for I’ahiatua, where he will deliver a speech in the evening. The Minister probably will proceed tn Palmerston North on the same night and return to Wellington on Tuesday. Captain J. G. Chartres, Captain L. Potter, and Lieut. J. ,D. Brook, of the New Zealand Defence Forces, will leave Auckland for Svdnev by the Maheno on September 21, and there will join the Chitral for India, where they are to exchange places with a corresponding number of officers of the Indian Arniv. The two first-mentioned. officers will be accompanied bv their wives. The Rev H. Van Staveren has returned from Whangarei after spending three months there. Air 11. R. Green was elected a member of the Chamber of Commerce at yesterday’s meeting of the council. The death occurred, at the age of 62 vears, of Mr. W. S. Gawith, who had 'been’ a resident of the Fitzherbert district for the past 38 years. The late Mr. Gawith was born in Wellington and entered the Post and Telegraph Department, but later took up farming and was one of the leading settlers at Fitzherbert. He is survived by one son, Mr. J. Gawith, Arapuni. The death of -Mr. W. A. Holman, father of the former Premier of New South Wales, is announced bv n Press Association message from Sydney.