PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

Lord and Lady Latymer will leave for New Zealand in January and arje due at Wellington on February 25. They will spend a few weeks trout fishing and deer stalking, states a Press Association cable message from London.

The death of Captain William Voy, master of the Island steamer Mataram, one of the best-known seafarers in the Pacific, is announced by a Press Association message from Sydney. Captain Voy was 60 years of age. Mr. W. P. Barnett, of the New Zealand Government Offices in Sydney, arrived in Auckland by the Ulimaroa. Colonel D. Campbell, a retired army officer, of Scotland, was a passenger to Auckland by the Ulimaroa from Sydney. Professor A. G. Wadia, of Poona, India, is a visitor to the southern lakes.

Mr. B. Grant, stock and dairy inspector for the Agricultural Department in Christchurch for the past 13 years, has been notified that fie has been promoted to the Palmerston North district. He will leave Christchurch early in February. A Press Association message from Suva states that the Hon. Henry Marks, C.8.E., has been notified by the Governor that the King has approved of his retention of the title of Honourable as a recognition of nineteen years’ legislative services. Opim ion in Suva is that the recognition is inadequate. Dr. William Stewart, aged 50, of Kelvin Street, Invercargill, who was en route to Christchurch for a holiday, died suddenly on Wednesday night in a city hotel as the result of heart failure (states a Press Association message from Dunedin). Dr. Brown, of Invercargill, was communicated with, and as he was prepared to certify to the cause of death, no inquest will be necessary.