PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 259, 2 August 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. W. J. Kogers, Mayor of Wangahui and president of the Municipal Association of New Zealand, arrived in Wellington yesterday for the purpose of presiding at the quarterly meeting of the executive committee.

A petition is being signed in the Wellington East electorate asking Mr. J. J. Clark to stand as a candidate at the forthcoming general election. Colonel IX. Simpson, social secretary for- the Dominion of the Salvation Army, returned from Christchurch by the ferry steamer yesterday morning. Mr. Roland Foster, of the New South .Wales State Conservetorium of Music, Sydney, well known as an adjudicator at the Wellington Competitions, is officiating at this year’s Queensland National Eisteddfod, and also at the South Ballarat Competitions. Overseas visitors to New Zealand include Messrs. J. D. Mclnerny, Honolulu, and G. Green, Java. They are at present in Auckland. Mr. F. M. Keeslng, of Auckland, left by the Aorangi on Tuesday for Honolulu where he is to study under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations.

Mr. J. B. McKinney, of Bombay, India, is visiting New Zealand and is now in Auckland.

Mr. W. H. Craike, of Wellington, is Visiting Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Howel), of Wellington, left Auckland by the Aorangi for Honolulu. They will return in October.

Mr. E. G. Skeates, Mayor of Birkenhead, accompanied by Mrs. Skeates, left Auckland on Tuesday by the Aorangi on a holiday trip to Honolulu.

The Presbyterian Moderator of New Zealand, the'Rev. Janies Aitken, M.A., of Gisborne, who’ is now in Wellington, called on the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, on Saturday morning, and yesterday morning upon the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) and the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup). When Mr.'H. D. Acland declined renomination for the position of chairman of the Canterbury College Board of Governors at the meeting of that body on Monday, the Hon. G. J. Smith was elected in his place, and Mr. C. T. Aschman was elected deputy chairman. Many tributes to the work of Mr. Atland, during the 10 years for which he has held office, were paid by members of the board.

Captain D. T. Maxwell, N.Z.5.0., formerly of Christchurch, who will .return from India in October, has been appointed area officer for Wanganui. Captain D. H. W. H. Donaldson, N.Z. S.C., will be area officer at Timaru, and Major D. 11. Mead, D. 5.0., will be staff officer in charge of the regimental district at Dunedin.

Following a long and varied service to education, Mr. E. C. I’urdie, secretary of the Auckland Education Board, has decided to retire towards the end of the present year (states a Special Service message from Auckland). Mr. Purdie is one of the best-known figures In educational circles, and was for a considerable time inspector of schools. He was also a well-known headmaster. Mr. Purdie twice unsuccessfully contested the Marsden seat at a general flection.

Mr. Harry William Barbor, a wellknown and highly respected figure in official and mercantile circles in Wellington for many years, died at his residence, 160 Oriental Bay Parade, on Tuesday, in his S9th year. He was a son of the late General Alexander Barbor, Bth Bengal Cavalry, and was born in India on November 28, 1830. He Was educated in England, and following his father in a military career, was granted a commission in the Indian Army. In 1855 he came to New Zealand as A.D.C.- to Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, C. 8., then Governor of the colony. The Maori War breaking out, Mr. Barbor joined the militia, and acted as recruiting officer at Auckland. He then Joined the staff of the House of Representatives, serving during Sir Harry Atkinson’s Ministry. On April 2, 1884, he . was appointed to the staff of the Railway Stores Manager, Wellington, and remained in that capacity until April 1, 1905, when he retired on superannuation. He joined the clerical staff of the Royal Exchange Assurance Office, and continued to attend the office daily until within a month or two of his death. He leaves a widow. The funeral took place yesterday morning from St. Michael and All Angels’ Church, Kelburn, the Rev. G. F. Petrie officiating both in the church and nt the Karori cemetery, where the body yvas cremated.