PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 288, 5 September 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir John and Lady Luke returned from the south by the Maori yesterday morning.

Au Australian Press AssociationUnited Service message from London announces the death of Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, who commanded the" Fifth Battle Squadron at Jutland.

Sir John and Lady Findlay were passengers by the Maori from Lyttelton yesterday morning.

Mr. L. O. 11. Tripp has been elected a member of the council of the New Zealand Golf Association.

Mr. J. B. Thompson (Under-Secre-tary of Lands), who has been indisposed for some days with influenza, had recovered sufficiently to preside at the meeting of the National' Park Board yesterday.

Mr. F. J. Earle, editor of the Nelson “Mail,” is visiting Wellington. Mr. H. R. Mackenzie,' chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, who is visiting England, underwent a slight operation in London, but has made a good recovery. He will return to New Zealand shortly, via Canada.

Mr. A. D. Campbell, a well-known big game fisherman, is expected to arrive in Auckland in October for the sword-fishing.

Major-General R. Young. G.0.C., New Zealand Forces, is visiting Auckland.

A very, old resident of Karori. Mr. George Welling, died in a private hospital on Monday night. The deceased, who was 74 years of age, had been ill for some time. He was .engaged for some years in engineering work, and was one of the “old-timers’’ of Karori when Spiers’s buses were . the only means of transport to the suburb. lie leaves a widow, a. daughter of the late Mr. George Shutter, a pioneer of Makara, and two sons. Mr. G. B. W. Welling, of the I’ost and Telegraph Department, and Mr. Gilbert Welling, of Karori.

The executive committee of the New Zealand Institute of Town Clerks has sent to Mr. T. F. Martin a letter expressing the regret of the institute at his retirement from the position of secretary and counsel of the Munieiirtl Association, and thanking him for the many and valuable services rendered by him to the town clerks and municipal authorities in New Zealand.

Mr. E. P. Moir, formerly secretary to the Railway Board, who has been appointed traffic assistant to the Divisional Superintendent of Railways, Auckland, arrived there yesterday to take up his position. Dr. Clifford James, of Dunedin, who recently returned from England, where he passed with honours for the degree in the study of tropical diseases, will leave Dunedin in a few weeks as a medical missionary to the Methodist Mission in the Solomon Islands. He will be accompanied by Mrs. .lames. Dr. James is the second medical missionary to proceed to the Solomon Islands for the Methodist Church, the first being Dr. E. Sayers., who established the Methodist Medical Mission in the Solomons last year.

Tributes to the memory of the late Sir William Sim were paid by speakers at the opening of the Conciliation Council yesterday. Mr. P. Hally, the Commissioner, said that the hard spade work the late Sir William Sim had done in the early days prepared the way for the amicable settlement of disputes now. As a mark of respect to a good man and a just Judge, who had endeared himself to both the workers and the employers in New Zealaud, he requested the assembly to rise ami stand in silence. Representatives of both employers and employees stood with bowed heads in silent tribute to the former president of the Arbitration Court. Mr. T. O. Bishop, secretary of the Employers’ Federation, and Mr. E. Kennedy, secretary of the Cooks and Stewards’ Union, also expressed their sympathy with the late Judge’s widow and family.

Dr. F. W. Burnham, president of the United Christian Missionary Society of the Disciples of Christ, United States, arrived in Auckland by the Tofua, en route to the Federal conference of the Associated Churches of Christ, to be held in Adelaide in October. He will spend two weeks in the Dominion. Besides extensive world travel in the interests of his church, Dr. Burnham has been active in interdenominational affairs, serving for eight years on the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches, during four years of which he was chairman. He is a director of the World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches, and of the Near East Relief. Dr. Burnham is also a member of the national council of the Boy Scouts of America, and president of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.

The many friends of Mr. C. W. Palmer, of Grosvenor Terrace, Goldie’s Brae, will regret to hear that the state of his health is occasioning his family some anxiety.