PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 184, 2 May 1931, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. Downie Stewart left for the north by the Limited express last evening. Mr. P. Graham, of Christchurch, is staying at the Royal Oak Hotel. Mr. P. J. O’Regan returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday. 'Mr. S. Fraser, of London; Mr. A. J. Good. Auckland, and Mr. J. A. Stewart, Auckland, are at Hotel St. George. Mr. C. J, B. Norwood, who is indisposedi has been ordered a complete rest, and is at present staying at Paekakariki. Mr. R. J. Tozer, recently from Cairo, Egypt; the representative of a British engineering firm, is paying a business visit to New Zealand. Mr. W. A. Millar, of Palmerston North ; Mr. J. Frew and Mr. W. D. Birkett, Christchurch; Mr. J. H. Lennox, Dunedin; and Mr. B. J. Hair, Hawera, are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. C. R. Ford, an Auckland architect, arrived in Wellington yesterday to pay a visit to the research ship Discovery, due to-day, on which he accompanied the late Captain Scott on the 1901 Antarctic expedition. Armourer Staff-Sergeant R. R. Grieve, of Trentham, who has been on loan to the New Zealand Defence Force, has com-, pleted his term and will leave for. Sydney by the Monowai on Tuesday next' eu route for England. Mr. A. J; .McCurdy i has resigned his position as a member of the social welfare committee of the Wellin’gton Hospital Board. His letter, in which he stated that he would continue as a member of the board and its other committees, was received at ,the meeting, of the board on Thursday, and the resignation was accepted with regret. Mr. O. B. Robinson wrote to the Wellington Hospital Board in Thursday expressing his regret to illhealth he would be unable to accept renomination as a member representing Lower Hutt and Eastbourne. A motwn was passed acknowledging Mr. Robinson’s past services and regretting that he was unable to accept. renomination. Mr.' A. S. Williamson, of the ‘ Land and Income Tax Department, who has retired on superannuation, was farewelled by the staff on Thursday, and presented with a cheque as a token of the esteem in which he was held by his fellow officers. Appreciation was expressed of the services rendered by Mr. Williamson during the thirty-one years he has been connected with the department. Dr. James Hight, of Canterbury College, and Professor T. A. Hunter, of Victoria College, will leave for London by the Tamaroa next week, to represent New Zealand at the Congress of Universities of the Empire. This congress is to sit in London from July 1 to 5. and in •Edinburgh frorq July 6 to 11. According to present arrangements the New Zealand delegates will return by the Rangitiki in September.

Mr. W. H. Philips Black, who is believed to have been lost overboard; from the ferry steamer Wahine on a recent trip to Wellington, was a well-known grain, pryduce and timber broker, of Christchurch. He was born in Calcutta in 1859, and came to Canterbury ; when still a young-man. For some years he was connected with the firms of iMiles and Company, and Dalgety and Company, but about 1896 he founded the brokerage business which he carried on until illness overtook him. He was very well known in business circles in Christchurch, and had been in touch with the city’s progress for more than fifty years. He leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. R. J. Glen, of Fendalton. A son was killed in th' Great War.

At a meeting of the members of the ' Wellington Co-operative Building Society h,eld at the societies’ chambers on Wednesday [evenipg, appropriations of £lOOO each' free of. interest were made in groups Nos. 3 and 4 and an appropriation of £lOOO in group No. 5 was sold by auction.