PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 58, 6 September 1909, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Mr. J. H. G. Burnside, of the Napier branch of the Department of Labour, has been transferred to Wellington. Captain Hugo, Inspector of Fire Brigades, has just returned from a visit of inspection to the Taranaki and Mana■n atu districts. It is understood thau the Committee of Management of the Wellington Unitarian Church has written Home requesting the Rev. W. Coupland Bowie, secretary of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, and the Rev. I Charles Hargrave, of Leeds, to co-op-erate in recommending a suitable successor to the Rev. Tudor Jones. Mr. J. J. Viigo, National V.M.C.A. secretary for Australasia, and general secretary of the Sydney V.M.C.A., arrived in Auckland yesterday. During his stay in that city he will be the guest of the Hon. Geo. Fowlds, and after a few days' visit to Rotorua, he will come South, visiting Christchurch and Dun- j edin before returning to Wellington for the seventh anniversary celebrations of the local V.M.C.A. News was recently received from Edinburgh to the effect that Mr. H. G. Feltham, formerly of this city, passed his final in the medical course. Dr. Feltham's plans are not definitely laid, but ! it is probable that he will remain at I Home- for another year, during which j time he will continue his studies. His ' brother, Mr. W. J. Feltham, is meeting with success as a student. As one of i the conditions of the bursary he won ', recently require that a year shall be spent in research work, it will be at least two years before his course is finished. In referring to the death of the late Mr. Samuel Brown, of Wellington, at a meeting of the South Canterbury Employers' Association, Mr. W. J. Batdsley stated that when he (Mr. Bardsley) was resident in Wellington, on more than one occasion it was his privilege \m be present 'at the proceedings of tne Arbitration Court, and hfe was then always much impressed with the ability, ana the broad-mindedness, and the fairness with which 'the late Mr. Brown ap- | peared to represent the employers, while he evidenced a fair and equitable regard for the requirements and the claims of the employees. Those who had taken notice of the work of the Arbitration Court, and the part that the late Mr. Brown took therein, must have recognised that in Mr. Brown the employers had had a representative of very high character indeed. His death wa-° a lamentable loss to the employers, the employees, and the country in general. A motion of appreciation of the deceased's services and sympathy with his family was passed liy the meeting.