PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 35, 5 November 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. In order to expedite recovery from his recent Illness, His Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) has decided to take a complete rest, and he will leave early this week for the Hermitage, Mount Cook, for, A stay of ten days. The King has approved that the dignity of a barony be conferred upon the Most Rev. and Hon. Randall Davidson, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan on the occasion of his resignation. The retiring Archbishop (states a British official wireless message) will thus retain his seat in the House of Lords which he has occupied as Spiritual Peer by virtue of his ecclesiastical office. lie has always made valuable contributions to debates in the Upper House upon church and social matters. This is the first occasion on which any Archbishop has become a Temporal Peer. The Archbishops of Canterbury have, however, generally died in office. This was the case with Dr. Davidson’s immediate predecessors in the Archbishopric—Drs. Tait, Benson and Temple. Dr. Doctor left Wellington by Saturday’s express for Auckland. General Booth (states a Sydney “Sun” message from London) is suffering from nervous prostration, and has been ordered several months’ rest. Mr. W. L. Lowrie, United States Consul-General in New Zealand, who left last June for America on holiday, returned by the Aorangi yesterday. Mr. Lowrie will remain in Auckland for a few days before coming to Wellington. Mn T. H. Coltman has returned to . -liington from Auckland, after spending fi/e months there. v Mr. J. H. Duncan, manager for Messrs. H.' L. Tapley and Co.; left Dunedin on Saturday for Wellington to meet Commander Byrd, of the Antarctic expedition, who is expected to arrive m Wellington to-day from America. The Rev. J. Lawrence Greer, formerly of Northcote, Auckland, has been appointed Anglican vicar of Norfolk Island. The funeral of the late Mr. John Danks took place at the Sydney Street cemetery on Friday afternoon. The services at the graveside- were conduct by the Rev. T. W. Vealie, of Trinity Church, Newtown, and for the Masonic\ Lodge by the Wor. Master D. McNaughton, of Lodge St. Andrew. The deceased, who had been in very poor health for the last two years, died on Wednesday night. He was a son of tlie late Mr. Samuel Danks, of the firm of Samuel Danks and Son, Brandon Street. The late Mr. Danks was a trustee of the Wellington Hospital Board and the Home for the Aged Needy for over 17 years, and was a life member of the Newtown Bowling Club. F? leaves a widow and three sons and two daughters—Mr. J. Danks, Palmerston North. Mr. S. Danks, Christchurch, ”r. F. H. Danks, Melbourne, and Mrs. A. B. Daniel. Wellington, and Mrs. P. D. Owen. Levin. The third son. William, was killed in France in 1916.