PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 105, 28 January 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

■The.Minister of Railways (Hon. W. B. Taverner) returned to Wellington from Dunedin on Saturday. Mr. Justice MacGregor arrived from the south by the Maori on Saturday morning.

His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner, Mr. L. B. Beale, will arrive in Wellington by the Tahiti to-day accompanied by Mrs. Beale. He is returning from an official visit to the United Kingdom and a tour of investigation in Malaya.

Mr. R. Galbraith, chairman of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, arrived from the south on Saturday.

Mr. L. J. Brake, Mayor of Whangarei, will not seek re-election.

Judge Jones, of the Native Land Court, left for Auckland last evening. Major Isitt, officer in charge of the air base at Hobsonville, arrived in Wellington from Auckland on Saturday.

Colonel Ingles left for Auckland on Saturday. Lieutenant-Colonel Pilkington arrived in Wellington from Auckland on Saturday.

Brigadier Potter arrived in Wellington from Auckland on Saturday. Mr. G. Craig. C.M.G., Comptroller of Customs, left Wellington on Saturday afternoon on a motor tour of the North Island. He was accompanied by Mrs. Craig and his three daughters.

Mr. A. H. Aitken, of Gore, chairman of the Bluff Harbour Board, was amongst the arrivals by the Wahiue yesterday morning, and is at present staying in Wellington. Mr. G. Petherick, chairman of the Hospital Board's Social Welfare Committee, has returned from a visit to Christchurch.

Mr. Alfred O’Shea, the well-known singer, is a passenger on the Tahiti, and will arrive in Wellington to-day. He is on his way to Vancouver, and will join the Niagara at Auckland, in which city he will give several concerts prior to his departure. Mr. G. Cruickshank, S.M., who has occupied the Magisterial Bench in Invercargill for the past twenty years and who recently announced his retirement, has definitely decided to leave Invercargill on February 26. Mr. and Mrs. Cruickshank will leave Auckland by the Aorangi on March 12 for Britain, via the United States. Mr. F. W. Tonkin, editor of the Sydney “Daily Telegraph Pictorial.” arrived from Burnie, Tasmania, by the motor-ship Port Hobart. Mr. Tonkin last visited New Zealand as a Press correspondent on H.M.S. Renown with the Duke and Duchess of York. He intends to tour the North Island by car with Dr. W. S. Ziele, a prominent Sydney dentist, who also arrived by the Port Hobart, and he will return to Sydney by the Maunganui from Auckland next Friday. Mr. D. A. Gwen, recently appointed representative of the Lower Hutt Borough Council on the Hutt Valley High School Board of Governors, made his first attendance on Friday night. He was welcomed by members and the chairman, later in the evening being granted leave of absence from February 1 when he will leave for England. Many friends both in Wellington and the Wairarapa will regret to learn of the death at his late residence, 12 Monro Street, Seatoun, of Mr. Henry McFarlane, until 1909 a well-known and respected schoolmaster in the Wairarapa, and during the past twenty years a resident of Seatoun, where he lived in retirement. Born in Glasgow in 1849, he emigrated to Sandhurst, Victoria, where he entered the teaching profession, and was on the staff of the High School there for seven years. In 1879 he came to New Zealand, and for 30 years was on the teaching staff of the Wellington Education Board, retiring, owing to ill-health, in 1909. The late Mr. McFarlane took a keen interest in bowls, being a foundation and life member of the Seatoun Bowling Club. He is survived by his widow, three sons, and four daughters, all of whom are resident in Wellington.