PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. E. L. Mowbray was a passenger by the Maunganui yesterday for Sydney, .en route to England, on an extended tour. ' Mr. Stewart Hawthorne, of the Government Insurance Department, who has been ill for many months, is well enough again to resuma his duties. Regret is expressed in the annual report of tho Wellington Football Association at the transfer from Wellington of that well-known enthusiast, Rev. Bio. Justin. During the years he has been resident in this city he has rendered valuable assistance to the game, more especially as a coach to the boys, and as a member of the Boys' Sub-committee. ' Inspector Hendrey, who has been promoted from Auckland, has arrived in Wellington. Like many of the best men in the present-day police force, Inspector Hendrey formerly served in the Armed Constabulary in the days when Te Whiti and Tohu, the P,arihaka prophets, attracted large crowds of Maoris from all parts of New Zealand to the pa at the slope of Mount Egmont. Mr. George J. Lawlor. an old resident of the Thames and Waihi Goldfields, died on Tuesday night, aged sixty-one years. Deceased, who was born afOnehunga, wag a aon of the late Mr. H. C. T. Lawlor, one of the first wardens and magistrates of the Northern Goldfields, and his brother is Mr. Theo. M. Lawlor, Clerk of Court at Hastings. Mr. Lawlor was a near connection by marriage of Mr. W. C. Kensington, late Under-Secretaary for Crown Lands. A daughter of the deceased gentleman is married to Mr. Harris, of the Geological Survey Department. Like most of the early goldfieldsmen, Mr. Lawlor worked as a miner, and acted as a minemanager, but during the past thirty years he held the position of district agent at the Thames, Paeroa, and Waihi for the A.M.P. Society. Early in the week it was rumoured that the Secretary of Labour (Mr. J. Lomas), owing to ill-health, had tendered his resignation, and it was added that the _ matter yins being considered by Cabinet. This morning a contemporary published the information as a fact, with the additional statement that "the appointment of his successor would probably be deferred until the Public Service Commissioners assume office on Ist April." The Prime Minister last Wednesday denied the rumour, and said that he would be very much surprised if such was the caso. Mr. Lomaß himself, ap> proached by a Post representative today, gave the statement a flat denial. "I have- never had any intention of resigning ; and I have none now," declared Mr. Lomas. "The published statement is absolutely ridiculous, there is not an atom of truth in iK I cannot understand how the idea got about."