PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 299, 18 September 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

At Government House yesterday morning the Governor-General presented to the Hon. Sir Apirana Ngata, M.P., Letters Patent, under His Majesty’s Sign Manual, conferring upon him the Dignity of Knight Bachelor. His Excellency also presented to Major J. L. Saunders, D. 5.0., and Bandmaster (honorary Captain) T. Herd the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration. Sir Francis Bell was last night reelected president of the Wellington Cricket Association on the proposition of Mr. F. M. Luekie, who mentioned that he was one of the oldest cricketers in Wellington. Bishop J. M. Steward, formerly Bishop of Melanesia, was a passenger by the Remuera, which left Auckland for London on Friday. The Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. B. Mcllveney) left last night for Auckland. He will return to Wellington on Thursday morning. The Rev. C. T. Cribb, an Anglican clergyman, who acts as chaplain to the English-speaking people of Java, arrived in Auckland by the Sussex on Saturday. He is on holiday leave, and will spend most of his time in Wellington. Mr. Temple White will leave to-day for Palmerston North, where he will give an organ ijecital. Mr. Leo du Chateau, recently associated with the management of the Alfred O’Shea tour, is in Wellington, The death has occurred of Mr. Thomas Leonard Cowlishaw, aged 55, formerly a well-known Canterbury rowing man and footballer, states a Press Association telegram from Christchurch. Mr. Ethelhort (Cyrus) Hales (son of the late Mr. W. H. Hales, of Oriental Bay), who has been many years on the American stage, is returning on a visit to Wellington this month. Mr. Walter Fuller, who has been resident In London foi the last three years, has returned to Wellington. Mr. C. R. Colquhoun, manager for Australasia, and Mr. D. E. Wilkie, superintendent for New Zealand, of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Co., Ltd., have left for the South Island. Mr. P. Strain, dental surgeon for mental hospitals, is seriously ill in Lyndhurst Hospital, Christchurch. Mr. Len Barnes left yesterday for Napier, where he is to sing the baritone solos In “The Creation” for the Napier Choral Society. Captain N. E. Chandler, of Blenheim, who has been appointed by the Marlborough Aero Club as its pilot instructor. was at the same flying school with Squadron-Leader Kingsford Smith in England during the war. A Press Association telegram from Gisborne reports the sudden death of Mr. Walter Herbert Boys, chief clerk of the Public Works Department. He had finished a game of bowls on the Poverty Bay Club green on Saturday afternoon, and was shortly afterwards found dead on a seat. He had been suffering from heart trouble.