PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 216, 8 June 1926, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

9 VICE-REGAL. Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Alice Fergusson are expected to arrive at Wellington this afternoon by the Government steamer Tutanekai, on their return from an official visit to the Cook Islands and Samoa. The Prime Minister (Right Hon. J. G. Coates) returned to Wellington yesterday from his northern visit. The Minister of Education (Hon. R. A. Wright) is expected to return to Wellington from the north to-day. The Postmaster-General (Hon. W. Nosworthy) is due back at Wellington to-day from Rotorua. The Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) left last night for Hamilton. He will return to Wellington to-mor-row morning, and on Thursday he is to visit Palmerston North to confer with the local hospital board. The Deputy Director-General of Health (Dr. Watt) .left last night for the south. He will visit Christchurch and Dunedin on departmental matters and is expected back in Wellington early next week. Air. G. R. Hunt, of Farnham, England, is visiting New Zealand, and is staying with his brother, Mr. J. E. Hunt, of Standard Motor Bodies, Ltd. A telegram from Hastings reports the death of Air. Leslie William Fowler, aged 59. He had identified himself with local bodies for a number of years, and was at one time conductor of the Hastings Band. He was a borough councillor, and at the time of his death was a member of the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board, and of the Licensing Committee. The death is reported by a Press Association telegram of Mr. John Jamieson, a well-known business man, of Christchurch, and an ex-member of the City Council. Air. Jamieson was 73 years of age. Air. A. H. Wright, ex-Commissioner of Police, left for England by the Port Nicholson last night, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Prior to his departure to take up the position of Director of Agriculture in Tasmania, Air. F. E. Ward, late instructor in agriculture, Christchurch, was tendered a farewell dinner in Wellington on Saturday night. Amongst those present were the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. O. J. Hawken), the director and assistant director (Dr. C J. Reakes and Air. F. S. Pope), and others departmental officers. During the evening many eulogistic references were made to the excellent services Air. Ward had rendered to the Department, and the several speakers expressed the hope that their . guest would meet with every success in his new and important position. Air. Ward will leave for Sydney by the Tahiti to-morrow. Sir John Findlay, K.C., returned to Wellington yesterday by the Limited from Auckland. Air. George Craig, Comptroller of Customs, returned to Wellington on Saturday evening from an official visit to Auckland and other northern ports. Air. J. F. B. Stevenson, of the legal firm of Alessrs. Izard, Weston, Stevenson, and Castle, _ underwent , an operation for appendicitis in a local private hospital yesterday morning, and came successfully through the operation. A London correspondent, writing under date April 23, says that Air. T. M. Wil ford, M.P., is again in London, and, with Mrs. Wiiford and their daughter, ha- settled down in a flat in Kensington. Mr. Wiiford has benefited by the res*, experienced in the South of France. His London medical adviser considers that be is improving, although he is averse from Mr. Wiiford taking up puh;Me again for at least a year.