PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 110, 3 February 1930, Page 12

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle) is visiting the Rotorua and Taupo districts. He will return to Wellington on Wednesday or Thursday next. The Minister of Railways (Hon. W. B. Taverner) arrived at Dunedin yesterday from Wellington. He is due back at headquarters by the end of the week. The Minister of Customs (Hon. J. B. Donald) will return to Wellington from Auckland to-day. Oommlslsoner Hugh Whatmore, who has been in charge of the Salvation Army’s territory In Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania, is retiring, states a Press Association message from Melbourne. He Is unable to name Vila enPPPQQOr. The Minister of Education (Hon. H. Atmore) arrived at Nelson yesterday from Wellington, and will spend the next few days visiting schools in the Havelock, Blenheim, and Picton districts. He will visit also Kaikoura and Christchurch, at the latter of which places he will on Friday next lay the foundation stone of the new Avonside Girls’ High School The Minister is expected to return to Wellington on February 12. Mr. John Coyle, secretary of the Newcastle Hospital Board (who was secretary of the Wellington Hospital Board a few years ago), is paying a holiday visit to Wellington. Mrs. Coyle returned from a trip to England by the Rangitane. Mr M. M. G. Thomas, accountant to the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., at Auckland, is being promoted to the position of manager of the Feilding branch. The vacated position will he taken by Mr. O. L. Jones, who is assistant accountant at Christchurch. Lord and Lady Latymer are expected to arrive shortly from England. They will spend most of their visit deer-stalking. Mr. J. M. A. Hott is visiting Dunedin. Captain W. J. Wade, M. 8.5., representative in Austraia and New Zealand of the Manchester Ship Canal Company, has been appointed by the Commonwealth Government as a Royal Commissioner to inquire into the management and administration of the Newcastle abattoirs. Captain Wade Is well known to the overseas community of Wellington, having visited here in connection with trade with Manchester. The Rev. T. T. Murray and Mrs. Murray are expected to arrive in New Zealand shortly on an extended tour of the Dominion. They Intend spending some time deep sea fishing at the Bay of Islands and other places, also to do trout fishing at Taupo and then go to the Sounds. Mr. Murray is “a sporting parson,” and he is Rector of Burton on the Hill (Oxfordshire). He and his wife hunt regularly with the Heythrop hounds, and for years he has gone to Norway for salmon fishing. Mr. Warren Joseph Cuttance, who died last month at Invercargill after an operation, was some three years ago appointed Assistant District Land Registrar and Examiner of Titles at Invercargill and was a very popular officer. He was forty years of age and was the eldest son of Captain and Mrs. Cuttance, of Hokitika. He was educated at Hokitika High School and twenty-four years ago joined the Lands and Deeds Department at Wellington. During the war period he was temporarily transferred to the War Expenses Department, and some four or five years ago was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. He was a keen fishing enthusiast/and had many friends among the local anglers. The late Mr. Cuttance leaves a widow and three children.