PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1913, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. D. A. Aiken, assistant-general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, airrived in Wellington to-day. Mr. Frederick G. Layton, who was a member of the Wellington Naval Artillery, has been presented with a medal for "twelve years' meritorious service." Mr. W. Hopkirk, of Wellington, president of the New Zealand Employers' Federation, and Mr. W. Pryor, secretary of that body, have gone south to attend the annual meeting of the Canterbury and South Canterbury Employers' Associations. A Greymouth Press Association telegram records the death of Mr. Edmund Wickes, aged 77. He arrived in Greymouth in 1865, and was the only surviving member of the old Provincial Council. He was the third Mayor of Greymouth and the pioneer of the sawmilling industry on the West Coast. Visitors to Wellington include Messrs. E. W. Knowles (chairman of the Napier Gas Company), Mr. James Buttle (general manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company), Mr. W. Graham (chairman of the Christchurch Gas Com' psny), and Mr. R. E. Bishop (manager of the last-named corporation). Mr. Ronald S. Wakelin, formerly of the Land Tax Department in. New 'Zealand, has been l-emarkably successful in his art studies in Sydney. In the Royal Art Society's competitions last month ho was awarded first prize and scholarship in the life class, and h© also took first prize in, the group competition of four subjects. The Primate of New Zealand (Bishop Neville, of Dunedin), is staying with Bishop Sprott in Wellington, and Bishops Julius (Christchurch), and Averill (Waiapu) are the guests of the Rev. A. L. Hansell (Karon) and Mr. G. E. Tol' hurst respectively. Bishop Sadlier, of Nelson, Who arrives to-night, will be the guest of Bishop Sprott. Regret at the death of one of t"he vice* S residents, Mr. S. J. Carman, of the :ew Zealand Counties' Association, wa» expressed yesterday by the president, Mr. A. E. Jull). Mr. Jull also offered the association's congratulations to two of its oldest vice-presidents, Messrs. W. Fraser and F. W. Lang, M.P.'s, on theif promotion, the first as Minister of Public Works, and the latter as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Yesterday Mr. P. R. Purser, Town Clerk of Lower Hutt, who is leaving there next week to take up a similar position at Hastings, was presented by Mr. W. J. Roche, Borough Engineer, on behalf of the outdoor and indoor staffs, with an engraved suit-case. Mr. H. Purser, his nephew, also an employee of the council, was presented with a pair of engraved military brushes. The funeral of the late Mr. James Brown' took place at the Masterton Cemetery yesterday afternoon. The esteem in which the^ deceased gentleman wa6 held was testified to by the lengthy cor tege (WTites i our Masterton correspondent). Practically every local body and institution) in the Wairarapa was representedj making one of the largest funerals seen in Masterton for some time. An impressive service was conducted in {jit. Matthew's Church and at the graveside by the Rev. H. Watson, of St. Matthew's. At the Jast meeting of the Wooleton Borough Council a well-known resident of Wellington, Mr. M'Gregor Wright, who was for some years Mayor of the borough, was present by invitation. The Mayor (Mr. P. J. Graham), in a few valedictory words, said it was his pleasing duty on behalf of the borougn. to ' present to Mr. Wright an address as a memento of his association with the borough during his term of office. The councillors recognised that Mr. Wright not only gave all the assistance he could, but had treated all with whom ho came in contact with unfailing courtesy. The Tefcipient made a, suitable acknowledgment of the presentation. In the twenty-sixth annual report of the Kent-terrace Presbyterian Church, feeling reference is made to some of its members who died during the past year, including Mr. William M'Donald, Mr. George Paradise, Mr. James M'Carrison, and Colonel Alexander Crowe, who had all taken a leading part in tne early history of the church. Mr. John Mao Eldowney had left for London ; Mr. William Robertson, who had been one of ths first members of the church, ' had gone to reside at the Lower Hutt ; and Mr. T. S. Mayer had resigned. On Sunday, the 22nd June, Messrs. James Bingham, and Joseph Tamblyn, M.A., were ordained and inducted into the office of the/ ruling eldership of the church.