PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle) will return to Wellington this morning.

At the invitation of the Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Dairy Factory Managers’ Association, Mr. W. G. K. Wright, editor of the “New Zealand Dairyman,” has accepted a seat on the honorary Advisory Council of the Association.

Mr. A. G. Barnett, secretary of the Wellington Harbour Board, left for Auckland yesterday on a holiday trip to the Islands. He will be away for about a month.

Mr. H. Franch, general manager of the Ford Motor Company in Australia and New Zealand, arrived from Sydney by the Ulimaroa. He will spend a holiday in the Dominion. Being the only nominee, Mr. W. H. P. Barker has been returned as the representative of the Upper Hutt Borough on the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board.

Brigadier H. R. Potter, who has been inspecting the 18th Battery now in camp at Arawa Park, Rotorua, was compelled to go into King George. V. Hospital as the result of a chill received when at Waiuku. His condition is somewhat serious.

Major T. M. Wilkes, .M.C., Director of Air Services, joined the afternoon train for Auckland at Marton yesterday.

Professor J. MacMillan Brown and Professor Denham, of Christchurch, and Professor Malcolm, of Dunedin, have returned home after visiting Wellington.

The Hon. J. W. Edwards, Conservative member of Parliament for Fronte-nac-Addington, died on Thursday of a heart attack, states an Australian Press Association-United Service message from Ottawa.

Mr. Norman Burton, who is well known in Wellington, has resigned from the standing committee of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland on account of ill-health. A resolution of regret ■was passed at a recent meeting of the committee.

Mr. H. M. Studholme, a Christchurch journalist, who has been appointed aide-de-camp to the Acting-Governor of Fiji, has left Christchurch on the first stage of his journey to take up his duties.

There passed away at Hataitai recently Mr. W. C. Millar, at the age of 73. He was well known among printers in Auckland and Wellington. For some years he was officer-in-charge of Statutes and Law Reports in the Government Printing Office, from which he retired on superannuation some eight years ago.

Mr. W. H. Woodward, who was appointed recently to the Magistracy in New Zealand, is an Aucklander—a son of the late Mr. William Woodward, M.A., of Mangere—and was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and at Auckland University College, where he graduated LL.B. He went to Samoa with the occupying Expeditionary Force in 1914, and was Registrar and ActingJudge of the German District Court until 1917. He also served as a machinegunner in France. After the war he received the appointment of Commissioner of the High Court in the mandated territory of Western Samoa, and in 1923 he became Chief Judge of the High Court at Apia. Two months ago Mr. Woodward came to New Zealand on furlough, and he is now transferred to the New Zealand Magistracy. It is understood that he Is to act in a relieving capacity.