PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 228, 27 June 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Finance (Hon. W. D. Stewart) is expected to return to Wellington from Rotorua early next .week.

The Postmaster-General (JJon. W. Nosworthy) will return to Welling.ton from the South to-day.

The Minister of Agriculture (Hon. O. J. Hawken) left Wellington yesterday to attend the I-lawera show. The Minister will return to Wellington to-morrow.

Sir Walter Carncross, Speaker of the Legislative Council, arrived in Wellington last night in readiness for the opening of the session to-morrow. Mr. H. H. Sterling, general manager of railways, will be in Christchurch to-day. Mr. J. W. Collins, Secretary of Industries and Commerce, will return from the South to-morrow. Mr. W. Newton, of the Labour Department, is on a round of departmental visits in the North Island, and will return to Wellington on Saturday.

Mr. P. Hally, Conciliation Commissioner, has returned to Auckland and will, not be back in Wellington until the end of July.

Mr. G. Frua, of the Auckland Manufacturers'. Association, has been spending two or three days in Wellington, and returned to Auckland by the Limited express last night. He attended the meeting of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association in the afternoon.

Mr. A. Seed, secretary to the New Zealand Sawmillers’ Federation, is at present in Dunedin and will return to next Tuesday. Mr. J. W. ' McEwen returned yesterday from a holiday spent at Auckland and Rotorua. He was accompanied by Mrs. McEwen. Dr. W. S. Seed, of Christchurch, is visiting Wellington in connection with the Dental Conference.

Professor Dodds (dean of the dental faculty), Professor Burt, and Messrs. Brewer, Potter, Dodgshun, Throp, and Barron, came to Wellington from Dunedin to attend the Dental 'Conference. Professor Burt will also attend the first meeting of the New Zealand Society for, the Study of Orthodontics, a of which he is vicepresident. Mr. S. E. Wright, secretary of the Auckland Employers’ Federation, arrived in Wellington on Monday. Mr. T. S. Little, of Ngapara, Otago, has gone to Sydney to judge the Border Leicester sheep classes at the Sydney Agricultural and Pastoral Show. He is accompanied by Mr. T. H. T. Little, of Huj Hui, and Mr. R. J. Low, of Highbank. A Press Association message states that the citizens of Suva will entertain the flyers, Messrs. Warner and Lyon (U.S.A.) and Captain Lancaster. and Mrs. Miller, at luncheon in the Grand Pacific Hotel on Thursday.

A British Official 'Wireless message states that General Sir Alexander John Godley has been appointed Governor and Commander-In-Chief of Gibraltar, in succession to General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro., upon the expiration of the latter's term of pffice in September next. Mr. Maurice James Jobiin, of “Middleton,” Waipukurau, a Hawke’s Bay pioneer settler, passed away on Thursday night at the age of seventy-three years, The deceased came .from Bittle River, Canterbury, over thirty years ago, and was for a great number of years farming in the Nuhaka district. He leaves a widow and one daughter.

Mr. G. Godfrey Taylor, a wellknown business man of Pahiatua, having acceded to nnmerous requests, was nominated yesterday afternoon for the vacant seat on the Wellington Education Board (states a Press Association telegram). Mr. Taylor has had lengthy experience on school committees in both town and country, aud for some time past has been chairman of the Pahiatua District High School (Committee. The Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup) will attend the reception at Government House, also that to Mr. W. Heughan by the Caledonian Society, to-day. Tomorrow afternoon he will attend the opening of Parliament. He has been invited, to attend the dinner to be held in connection with the Dentists’ Conference tef-morrow evening. On Friday lie will preside at a special meeting of the City Council to discuss the report of the Access Commission, and on Saturday afternoon will be present at the laying of the foundation stone of the new Wesleyan Methodist Church in Waitoa. Road (Hataitai), a ceremony which is to be performed by His Excellency the Governor-General. Mr. D. J. McGowan, the newlyelected president of the Rotary Chib of Wellington, has during the last six years given service to the city as originator and first chairman of the (■Wellington Show Association, president Of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, and of the .Wellington Chamber of Commerce, a member of the 'Wellington Harbour Board, and vice-chairman of the Karitane Hospital appeal which raised over £20,000 for the new hospital. Mr. McGowan also takes a keen interest in the work of the Boys’ Institute. The funeral of the late Charles Norman Ross Mackenzie, late Superintendent of the Church of England Chinese Mission in the Diocese of Wellington, was conducted by Bishop Sprott and Archdeacon Johnson last Sunday afternoon, the first part of the service in the Chinese Mission Church, Frederick Street, and the latter part in the crematorium, Karori. Part of the lesson in the church was read in Chinese by Mr. D. J. Kwoin. The pall bearers were six Chinese Christians. The church was filled with a congregation of both Europeans and Chinese, among whom were many of the city clergy.