PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 93, 19 April 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Joseph and Lady Ward arrived in Wellington from Lyttelton by the Maori this morning. Hon. Dr. M'Nab was a passenger by the ferry steamer from the South today. Mr. A. E. Kernot leaves on a visit to Australia by the Manuka on Friday. Mr J. B. Clarkson returned to Wellington from Australia, via Auckland, last evening. He will leave for Christchurch to-morrow night. Mr. Victor Murray, for thirty years manager in the Far East for the South British Insurance Company, has just retired from business lite. Mr. B. Brennand, agricultural master at the Palmerston North High School, has been appointed to the staff of the Auckland Grammar School. Mr. Gerald Stead, the well-known North Canterbury runholder and racehorse owner, has enlisted in the artillery. He is a married man with a family. Captain White-Parsons, R.N.R., who has been ordered to join the service of the Admiralty, left Napier yesterday morning. He was presented with a leather suit case by the Harbour Board staff there. Mr. Henry Burne, a well-known farmer of Apiti, and a member of the Pohangina County Council, is dead, aged S3. The death is also announced of Mr. Albert Bishop, of Marion, a Maori war veteran, at the age of 74. * Mr. W. C. Nation, of Levin, aud Mrs. E. J. Moore, of Wellington, president of the National Association of Spiritualistic Churches, New Zealand, will leave for Lyttelton by the Maori to-night to attend the annual meeting of that organisation in Christchurch. , Mr. James Nicholson, of Messrs. Mace and Nicholson, left Auckland yesterday on a health recruiting trip to Honolulu. The Rev. 0. J. Rimberley, secretary of the New Zealand Church Society, who toured New Zealand with Dr. Batchelpr, of Japan, has returned to Auckland. Mr. Arthur Mack, son of Mr. Mack, of Jenkins and Mack, left New Zealand last December for London, where he" proposed enlisting in the artillery. Unfortunately, he was taken ill with rheumatic fever. His father has now received word that he is at Torquay, and making a good recovery.' At the meeting of the City Council last evening the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), on behalf of the Napier Borough Council, presented Mr. H. M. Chisholm, formerly a member of the latter body, with an illuminated address, which was not prepared in time to be presented in Napier. Mr. Luke paid a tribute to Mr. Chisholm.'s work as a councillor at Napier, and expressed his pleasure at being.able to make the presentation. Tho death occurred in the Ohiro Home on Sunday of Mr. Richard Howell, an old settler in New Zealand. The deceased was a native of Belfast, seventyfour years of age, and in his younger days was connected with one of the newspapers in that city. Before coming to Wellington some years ago he was accountant for Messrs. R. V. Gibbons and' Co., sawmillers, at Kopu, on the Thames River. Ho has left a son, a. resident of. Napier. A departmental presentation was made at Parliamentary Buildings this afternoon to Mr. H. J. H. Blow, "Undersecretary of Public Works, who retires from the Public Service to-day. Mr. Blow will complete forty-three years' service on 20th July, but leaves his active work to-day on three months' leave. The Hon. W. Eraser, Minister of Public Works, made the presentation, which consisted of a very handsome illuminated address. There was a large attendance o£ the Wellington staff of the Public Works Department. A warm compliment was paid by the Mayor and councillors last evening to the chief executive officers of the council for the work done during the year just closed. The Mayor mentioned the names of the Town Clerk (Mr. J. R. Palmer), City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton), City Treasurer (Mr. C. Collins), Assistant Tramways Manager (Mr. W. Cable), Tramways Traffic Manager (Mr. M'Gillivray), and Tramways Accountant (Mr. Petersen). ,jThe accounts, said the Mayor, were promptly in his hands a'few days after the year had closed. Mr. E. R. Ussher, for many years in the New Zealand Government Service, died at Dunedin last week. He was born in Canada 77 years ago, and was brought up as a civil engineer slnd surveyor. In 1863 he was appointed an officer of the Roads Department under the Otago Provincial Government. He J continued in the position till 1868, when, with many others, he retired from the service. Until 1871 he was engaged in private practice, and was then appointed to the Public Works Department, under Mr. W. N. Blair, engineer-in-chief. In 1887 he was made a district engineer. The fact that Mr. J. M. Johnston is to be elected president of the Manawatu A. and P. Association unopposed at the annual meeting next month is a recognition of the zeal and ability with which he has discharged the duties of honorary treasurer of that important body for the. past twenty years. He was for some time -a director of the Bank of New Zealand. During his long residence in Palmerston North he has done much to further the interests of that town and surrounding districts. Mr. R. M'Knight is the only one nominated to . succeed Mr. Johnston as treasurer.