PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 55, 28 November 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Postmaster-General (Hon. J. B. Donald) will return to Wellington from Auckland to-morrow. He will represent the Government at the opening of the Auckland War Memorial- Museum by the Governor-General to-day.

Sir John Luke is at present in Christchurch, and is expected to return to Wellington next Tuesday morning. The Minister of Justice ami Defence (Hon. T. M. Wilford) was congratulated by members of the Wellington Harbour Board at the meeting last night, on his appointments as Sir Alfred Robin is visiting the South Island.

a King’s Counsel and as High . Commissioner in London. In moving a resolution to this effect, the chairman (Mr. J. AV. McEwan) said that Mr. Wilford was an old member and exehairman of the board. Mr. D. J. McGowan seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. The Ven. F. G. Evans, of Ne<v Plymouth, who recently retired from the positions of Vicar-General of the Waikato Diocese and Archdeacon of Taranaki, has been appointed by the Bishop, Archdeacon Emeritus of the diocese.

Mr. W. E. Russell, formerly British agent and Consul for Tonga, who has retired from the Fiji Civil Service, arrived in Auckland by the Tofua this week.

The congregation of St. John’s last night decided to send cordial greetings to St. John’s own missionary, the Rev. George McNeur, and Mrs. McNeur, of Canton, China. The Hon. J. D. Wall, AuditorGeneral for the Government of Tonga, reached Auckland by the Tofua. He will spend a holiday in New Zealand before returning to the Islands. “The annual meeting of the congregation of St. John’s last night sent cordial greetings to the Rev. Dr. Gibb and Mi's. Gibb, and expressed the hope that many years will be granted them wherein their lives may fall in pleasant places. . , Dr. C. Dawson, Chief Medical Officer for Tonga, arrived in Auckland on the Tofua. He is on a holiday visit to New Zealand.

Messrs. T. McWilliams and H. Litchfield, members of the Southern Cross crew, returned to Melbourne yesterday aboard the Swedish motorship Templar, says a Press Association mesthe annual meeting of St. John’s Presbyterian Church last night appreciation was Expressed of the services rendered by Mr. M. D. Menelaus, who has now completed 27 years as session clerk. , Captain A. C. AV. Innes, formerly of the Irish Guards, arrived at Auckland aboard the Ulimaroa. He was accompanied by his wife, and intends to do some trout fishing. They will visit Taupo, and if sufficient time is offering they will go to the Bay of Islands.

Mr. G. Pickthall, a Ceylon planter, arrived at Auckland aboard the Ulimaroa on a three months’ fishing expedition in New Zealand. He is a member of the Ely Fishers’ Club in London, one of the most exclusive fishing clubs in the world. Mr. Picktha.l is of opinion that New Zealand is not sufficiently advertised in Ceylon. He will go to Rotorua, Taupo, and South Canterbury for fly-fishing, and later pay a visit to the Bay of Islands in search of swordfish. Mr. AV. AV. Thorpe, ethnologist, of the Australian Museum, Sydney, who recently spent three months in Auckland arranging the South Sea Island section of the War Memorial Museum, arrived by the Ulimaroa from Sydney this week, accompanied by Mrs. Thorpe. They are the guests of the War Memorial Committee for the opening .of the museum. After the official opening to-day they will make a holiday tour of the North Island.

Messrs. A. D. Johnston, N. McDonald, and W. A. Patterson have been elected members of the Session of St. John’s Church, and will be inducted on Sunday next.

The Rev. Dr. J. C. Lee and Mrs. Lee, of Boston, were passengers from Suva by the Tofua. They are on a trip round the world.' Dr. Lee is a former president of the University of St. Lawrence in the State of New York. The honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law was conferred on Mr. Frank Kellogg, former Secretary of State for the United States, at Oxford University, states a British Official wireless message. Dr. William Sadler, M.A., D.Sc., 8.A., at present lecturer in pure and applied mathematics lit the University of St. Andrews, has notified iiis acceptance of the Chair of Mathematics at Canterbury College.

Mr. R. Hyne, who has been appointed Chief Magistrate for the Solomon Islands, arrived in Auckland aboard the Tofua. He has resigned the position of Director of Education in Tonga. -Dr. J. Forsyth, F.R.C.S., son of Mr. T. Forsyth (chairman of the Wellington Education Board) has finished his course of training in England, and will leave London for Wellington by the Zealandia on January 7. Dr. Forsyth took his surgical degree at Edinburgh, since when he has relieved at the Bethnal Green Hospital, been resident officer in charge at the Walsall (Birmingham) Hospital, and taken a course in obstetrics at the famous Rotunda Hospital at Dublin.

The Rev. E. C. Budd, one of the best-known members of the Auckland clergy, who died at Auckland on Sunday, aged 71, was for over 20 years chaplain to the Auckland Hospital, the Mental Hospital, the Auckland Infirmary, and the Mount Eden prison. He also acted for a long period as honorary secretary of the Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society, resigning this position with the others he held in 1927. Born in England in ISSS, Mr. Budd came to New Zealand 56 years ago. settling first at Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay. After spending a year there he went to Auckland, residing first at Mount Albert. He was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Waiapu in 1894. ami was ordained priest in the Church of England in Auckland in the following year by Bishop Cowie. From 1594 to 1899 ho was stationed at the Church of the Holy Trinity at Waiukn, first as curate and then as vicar. In 1899 he took up the position of chaplain to a number of institutions in Auckland, continuing in this work until 1927. when he retired. Mr. Budd is survived by his wife, two sous, and one (laughter. The death occurred at Auckland yesterday of Mr. M. H. Moon, aged 54, headmaster of the Mangere East School and a former president of the Auckland branch of the Educational Institute. Mr. E. R. Wilson, president of the New Zealand Architects' Institute, who came to Wellington to address the annual meeting of the local branch of the organisation, will leave for the South island to-night. He will lecture to the Christchurch society on Friday evening before returning to his home in Invercargill.