PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 81, 29 December 1928, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Health (Hon. A. J. Stallwortliy) left Wellington for Auckland last night. He will return to Wellington on Thursday. The Minister of Labour (Hon. W. A. Veitch) returned to Wellington yesterday from Wanganui. The Earl of Liverpool, a former Governor-General of New Zealand, and the Countess of Livei e ool are expected to reach Wellington to-day in the Remuera on a holiday visit- to the Dominion.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, who has been ill with internal inflammation, and was unable to fulfil his Christmas engagements, has made good progress towards recovery (states a British official wireless message). The bulletins will be discontinued.

Sir Dudley de Chair, Governor of New South Wales, will shortly join Lady de Chair and the members of their family, who are spending their summer holiday at Takapuna. Sir Dudley is a passenger on the Remuera. whit’ is due in Wellington from London to-day. The members of the family are spending a month in Auckland.

Among the passengers by the Maunganui from Sydney for Auckland on Thursday were Mr. aud Mrs. T. H. Lowry and Professor V. A. Bailey, states an Auckland Press Association message.

Mr. W. H. Woodward, Chief Judge of Samoa, has come to the Dominion for a four months’ holiday. Mr. Woodward has been nine years in Samoa. Formerly he was a resident of Auckland.

Captain W. M. Bell, who has completed his term as resident commissioner at Savaii, Samoa, returned to Auckland by the Tofua and will be attached to the New Zealand permanent staff corps.

Mr. A. F. East, headmaster of tha Auckland Point School, has been appointed to an inspectorship at Auckland (states a “Dominion” Special Service message from Nelson). He will take up his new duties at the beginning of the next school year. Mr. East came to Nelson some years ago to take charge of the Hampden Street School, and when the new Auckland Point School was built he was appointed headmaster there. Yesterday Mr. William Arthur Worth died at his residence in Adelaide Road, aged 58. He had been a. Justice of the Peace for the past 12 years, frequently sitting at the Mount Cook Court. Keenly interested in local politics, the Friendly Societies movement and in Masonic affairs, he had for many years prior to his death been treasurer of Court Sir George Bowen, A.0.F., having gone through the various chairs and filled the office of District Chief Ranger, the highest in that order, besides being a member of the Masonic Lodge Hinemoa. He was much interested in Newtown affairs, and for some time was a mover in the district cricket scheme, in addition to his activities on the Management Committee of the Wellington Cricket Association. Deceased leaves a widow, but no children.

A long and active life, covering some of the most exciting years in the history of New Zealand, has been brought to a close by the death at Waverley of Captain G. Johnston, V.D., says the “Wanganui Chronicle,”. Born in Auckland in IS4S, he went to Napier in 1864 and took part in engagements on the East Coast. Subsequently he took part in the expedition to Taupo, afterwards being engaged in shepherding and shearing for two years. In IS6S he went to Wanganui, and during the West Coast Native troubles served in the famous Kai Iwi troop, under Captain John Bryce. In Poverty Bay he saw service as a scout in the Mounted Rifles under Colonel Fraser. At one time he was also a member of the Aramoho Light Horse, and the Wairpa Light Horse. On the latter company becoming the Wairoa Mounted Rifles, he served as their captain for ten years, until retiring to the unattached list in 1893. Captain Johnston held the Queen’s special gold and silver medal for long and distinguished service as an officer: the Maori War Medal, and the Volunteer Long-service Medal. During Captain Johnston's long residence in the Waverley district, he served on many local bodies, including the Patea County Council and Harbour Board. He was chairman and one of the founders of the Waverley Dairy Company and the Patea-West Coast Refrigerating Company. He was also a director of the South Taranaki Shipping Company and Waverley Town Hall Company.. In 1869 he was married to a daughter of Mr. J. W. Thurston, of Wanganui, and had six sons and four daughters, all of whom are still living.