PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. J. B. Glarkson was a passenger by the Wahine this morning. His Honour Mr. Justice Stringer is due back in Wellington to-morrow morning, i Mr. Clarence Hopkins has been appointed manager of the Masteiton Co« operative Dairy Company. He has been assistant at the factory for a number of years. i Among the passengers by the Wahine this morning were Hon. Sir H, J. Miller, Hon. G. Jones, Hon. T. Parata, and Hon. Sir C. C. Bowen (Speaker of the Legislative Council). Mr. Campbell Colquhoun, of Wellington, has been appointed to supervise extensive alterations and additions to the Bank of New South Wales premises at Auckland. He left for the North to-day. Mr* Hugh Miller, assistant at the Masterton District High School, has been appointed first assistant at the new Bntomart-street School in Wellington, and leaves for Wellington on Monday next. Mr. E. Nordon, secretary of the Canterbury Licensed Victuallers' Association, arrived in Wellington this morning, and leaves to-morrow by the Marama for San Francisco on holiday leave. The Hon. W. Beehan, M.L.0., and Messrs. F. W. Lang (Manukau), J. S. Dickson, (Parnell), and J. G. Coates (Kaipara), will arrive from Auckland this afternoon to attend the opening of Parliament on Thursday. The death of Mr. John Martin, at the age of 90 years, occurred at Kumara on Friday. Deceased was bom in London, and had been in New Zealand for 55 years— for the greater part of the time on the West Coast. Ensign Garner, who is the Salvation Army chaplain at Trentham, is about to take a well-earned holiday. During his absence, Staff-Capt. Walls, of national headquarters, who is a familiar figure at Trentham, will act as his locum tenens. Col. Porter, C.8., president of the board of officers set up by the Defence Department to determine claims for the New Zealand war medal and military pensions, has gone to Gisborne to investigate , certain claims which have been made 1 there. Messrs. G. Witty, M.P. for Riccarton; W. J. Dickie, M.P. fo» Selwyn; J. Colvin, M.P. for Buller; H. a Ell, M.P. for Christchurch South; A. S. Malcolm, M.P. for Clutha; and J. Craigie, M.P. for Timaru, came up from the South this morning. Messrs. R. S. Abraham and L. A. Abraham, of Palmerston North, have received advice that their nephews (Arthur and Edward), who left the Manawatu Borne years ago and settled in Canada, were with the Canadians in the fighting at Ypres. Both suffered from gas poisoning, but are now convalescent. Mr. W, T. Ward (a brother of Sir Joseph Ward), who has been Chief Postmaster at Nelson for the past four and ahalf years, was farewelled by the people of that town on Monday on the eve of his departure to assume the duties of Chief Postmaster at Christchurch. Mr. W. Gee, until recently Inspector of Sayings Banks, is Mr. Ward's successor in Nelson. Mr. Frederick Bryant, who was in business in Palmerston North for many years, will leave Auckland for Vahcouver by the Niagara on 13th July, on his way back to England, where his family resides. Mr. Bryant has large interests in the Manawatu and every now and then returns to the Dominion for business reasons. One of his sons ia an officer in Kitchener's Army. Mr. E. B. Bowie, Wellington manager of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company for the last seventeen years, has been promoted to an important position' in the head office of the company at Christchurch, and leaves Wellington to-day to take up his new duties. He has been succeeded in Wellington by Mr. William Quinn, who for the past five years lias represented the company in Wanganui.

A building, to contain two shops, is being constructed in Jackson-street, Petone, for Mr. H. N. R. Meadows, of Wellington. The larger shop will be occupied by Mr. J. R, Calcy, late of WfihW and Co,