PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 288, 31 August 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Commodore G. Swabey arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Limited express.

The Hon. V. H. Reed, M.L.C., travelled north by last night’s Limited express. Mr. J. E. Schloss lezt for the north last evening.

Mr. A. S. Paterson left for Sydney bv the Makura yesterday. ’Mr. D. Bohan left by the Makura yesterday en route to Ceylon. Mr. G. Magnus, of Magnus Motors, accompanied by Mrs. Magnus, left for Sydney by the Makura yesterday.

Mr. Clement May left Wellington last night for the South to judge the elocutionary section of the competitions at Invercargill.

The Rev. Raine, the new vicar of St. Albans, Eastbourne, who was to have arrived this week, has been unavoidably delayed, and is not due now until September 5.

The death has occurred in Sydney of Mrs. Fraser, wife of the Chief Commissioner of New South Wales Railways, states a Press Association message. At this week’s meeting of the Hospital Board the resignations were received of Dr. R. O’Regan (senior house surgeon), Dr. Easterfleld (second house surgeon), and Mr. E. H. Rawson (first assistant dental surgeon). A radio message from Rabaul announces the sudden death of Mr. H. W. Clark, one of the discoverers of the Edie Creek goldfields, who was well known in mining circles in Sydney, states a Press Association message.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Wright, of Khandallah, will leave by the Limited express on Sunday night for Auckland, en route for a tour of the South Sea Islands. : Mr. Theodore Fink, chairman of directors of the “Herald” and “Weekly Times,” Melbourne, has been elected chairman of the Australian section of the Empire Press Union, states a Press Association message from Sydney. The death of the Rev. John Burgess, one of the most prominent ministers of the Presbyterian Church in Australia, at the age of 74 years, is announced by a Press Association message from Sydney.

The death is reported from Auckland of Mr. James D. Crawford, aged 60, the first president of the Kindred Clubs’ Association of New Zealand, and the father of the Orphans Club in Auckland, states a Press • Association telegram.

Professor W. A. Sledge, an English botanist, who is carrying out research work in New Zealand, is a son of Mr. T. K. Sledge, sub-editor of the “Daily Chronicle” and previously associated with other prominent British newspapers, and an ex-president of the English Journalists’ Union.

Colonel G. T. Hall, president of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association, is an inmate of a private hospital, where he has undergone an operation. At the last meeting of the executive of the Wellington R.S.A. a resolution was unanimously passed expressing regret at Colonel Hall’s illness. He is making satisfactory progress. Leave of absence from Thursday’s meeting of the Hospital Board was granted in the case of Mr. G. Petherick, who is confined to his bed through a slight accident, and to the Rev. H. Van Staveren. In respect to the last-named, the chairman (Mr. C. M. Luke) said that the latest bulletin was more favourable, Mr. Van Staveren being slightly better. It was decided to send a letter of sympathy to Mr. Van Staveren.

News has been received of the death of Mr. Thomas Theophilus Howell, of Riverton. The late Mr. Howell was a son of Captain Howell, of Fairlight, Lake Wakatipu, and was educated at Dunedin High School, where he held the distinction of being champion athlete during his term. When the first English team of cricketers played in Invercargill, the late Mr. Howell bowled Hill (their best batsman) first ball. Mr. R. E. Howell, of Wellington, is a brother. \

The death occurred early yesterday morning of Mr. H. Harrington, aged 78. He arrived in Christchurch in 1852 with his parents in the ship Samarang. He joined the telegraph service, and became assistant superintendent in Christchurch, then superintendent in Napier, and later in Wellington, and when he retired from the telegraph service he was inspector. He was recalled to act as censor in Wellington for the greater part of the war. Since then he had lived in retirement. Mr. S. Wright, who has been in charge of the railway passenger division for several years past and is retiring from the department after forty years’ service, was farewelled at a large gathering of railway oflicers yesterday afternoon. The chief accountant, Mr. H. Valentine, presided, and in asking Mr. Wright’s acceptance of a Tudor’chair and stool from the staff, referred to his long and valuable workon behalf of the department. All wished him the best of health and every happiness in his retirement. The chief accountants, Messrs. F. K. Porteous and W. Bishop, and other departmental officers spoke of Mr. Wright’s valued services. The opportunity was also taken to farewell Mr. L. A. Thomas, who has been transferred to Ormondville. Mr. Thomas received a suitcase and rug from the staff.