PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The. Hon. R. M'Kenzie left this morning for Pahiatua. The Hon. J. Carroll left for Auckland by this afternoon's Main Trunk express. Mr. F. G. Boltcn will again contest the Wellington North seat in the Liberal interest. Mr. W. H. Atack. manager of the Press Association, left yesterday on a business visit to Sydney. Dr. Hay, Assistant Medical Officer at Rotorna, returned from the South by the Mararoa this morning. Dr. A. M'Arthur, S.M., returned to Wellington last evening from Woodville, where he has been engaged on Railway Appeal Board business. Mr. R. S. Ross, who has been appointed editor of The Maoriland Worker, has commenced his duties. Mr. R. Hogg is business manager of the paper. Mr. Charles Cumin g, who is severing hia connection with the" New Zealand Times newspaper in order to take up the duties of Editor of Publications for the Department of Agriculture, was yesterday made the recipient of a parting gift from his colleagues. Rifleman Hay, of the Ks-rori Club, . leaves by the ferry steamer for Lyttelton on Tuesday evening, en route for London, to take part in the Bisley meeting. At a gathering at the Drillshed last evening he was wished bon voyage by a, large gathering of clubmates. Who is the oldest person born ol European pa-rents in New Zealand? As far as I can learn (says a writer in the Auckland Herald) that distinction belongs to Mr. T. C. Williams, of Auckland, who was bom at Paihia, in tha Bay of Islands, as far back as 1825. Mr. H. Cook, who lives up the Waikafi River, near Russell, was born at Stewart Island in 1827, and Mrs. S. Bowler (a sister of the late Mrs. H. Lethbridge), who resides at Ka-eo/ near Whangaroa, Avas born at Te Puna, in the Bay of Islands, in August, 1828. Next on the list is Mrs. Kemp, who was born at Paihia on 23rd February, 1830, and liven at JKerikeri in a house that was built, by the missionaries in 1819, and' is the oldest standing in New Zealand. Mr. C. B. Stone is the first male child of European parents born in the City of Auckland. He cele&rated his seventieth birthday about a fortnight since. Mrs. Slator, who is still alive, wae the first European child born in ' Aucfelanad, having preceded Mr. Stone by thirteen days.