PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister'of Health, journeyed to Otaki yesterday to receive a deputation in connection with the suggested closing of the Otaki Cottage Hospital. After hearing the deputation, the Minister made a hurried inspection of the Otaki sanatorium, and later left for Wanganui to attend a meeting of the Wanganui. Hospital Board in the evening. Mr. Young will return to Wellington this morning.

The Hon. R. F. Bollard left lor the north by the ordinary express yesterday. ■ • ■ -

Sir Hedley le Bas founder and .governing director of the Caxton Publishing Company, is dead (reports a . London cablegram). Fie ’ was 58 ' years old.

The death is announced from Sydney of Mr. Percival Johnston, aged 81. He visited New Zealand in the sixties, and served as Parliamentary secretary to Sir George Grey. Later he had charge of the financial side of tlie construction of the first railway in New Zealand.

Mr. J. G. Harkness has been reappointed Government member of the Wellington Harbour Board for a further term of three years as from April 28 next.

Commissioner and Mrs. Hoggard left for Auckland yesterday.

The secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union (Colonel J. Pow) has been advised that the Rural Credits Commission, consisting of Colonel Esson (ex-financial adviser to the Government), and Messrs. W. J. Polson (president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union), and P. Cox (chairman of the Associated Banks), which left New Zealand at the beginning of September last to inquire into the agricultural banks in Canada, U.S.A., Argentine, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Egypt, ano Australia, and who are at present on the Continent, will return to London on April 27, and will leave for Australia on May 29 by the Ormonde. The staff of the Wellington Gas Company met recently to farewell Mr. E. B. Parsons, who, after 27 years iu the company’s employ, was granted six months’ leave of absence for a healthrecruiting trip to England. Mr. A. M Tavlor, inspecting engineer, referred to the high esteem in which Mr. Parsons was held by the directors and staff, and asked him to accept a travelling rug as a mark of esteem from the staff. Mr. and Mrs. Parsons left fcr England by the Tainui.