PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. H. H. Sterling, general manager of railways, has been in Dunedin on departmental business. He will return to Wellington early next week. Mr. T. A. Blair, assistant general manager for New Zealand of the Vacuum Oil Company Pty., Ltd., has been appointed assistant general manager of the Victorian branch, with headquarters at Melbourne. Mr. and Mrs. Blair will leave for Australia by the Tahiti on Tuesday next. The Rev. J. W. Burley has been appointed by the Bishop of Waikato, on the nomination of the Diocesan Board of Nomination, to the Parochial District of Christ Church, Taumarunui, according to the “Waikato Times.” He will be instituted after Easter. The death occurred in Wellington last week of Sergeant J. G. Radford, D Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery Volunteers. Sergeant Radford was closely associated with the battery for nearly forty years, and retired to the reserve in 1919. Prior to joining the battery he was a member of the Old Thames Rifles Volunteers. He held the Colonial Auxiliary and the New Zealand Long Service decorations. His wife predeceased him several years ago. He leaves two sons and two daughters. The death has occurred in Auckland of Mr. Arthur Eady, aged 73, the head of the firm of Arthur Eady, Ltd., music warehousemen, who were established in 1876, states a Press Association telegram. The deceased was a prominent Free Mason, and was past master of th ePrince of Wales Lodge and a past senior grand warden of the District Grand Lodge of English Freemasons.