PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 110, 10 May 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

Their Excellencies the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool, accompanied, by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, private secre-" tary, and Mr. K. Helmore, A.D.C., left " last night. for Eotorua, where they intend to remain until 20th May, on which day they -will leave for Wellington, where they will arrive on the morning \ of 21st May; Mr. G. H. Scales returned to Welkng- • ton from Lyttelton -this morning. , Mr. James Hawkes, a prominent business man at the Thames, is dead. Brigadier Bray, of the Salvation Army, arrived by the Maori from the South to-day. Mr. W. H. Beetham has been elected a life member of the Wairarapa A. and P. Association. : Mr. Geo. Allport, Secretary for Marine, returned to Wellington from " the South yesterday. A Press Association ■ telegram states . that Mr. H. D. Heather was re-elected Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board yesterday.' Q.M.S. H. M. Awarau, who was at Gallipoli and invalided to England, has been appointed to do recruiting work amongst the Maoris. Sergeant E. J. Carey, lately secretary of the Wellington Hotel Workers' Union, will be entertained by the union and . the Trades and Labour Council at a social evening towards the end of the month. . ■ . Mr. H. G-. Lakeman, of Wellington, is taking charge of the Telegraph Engineer's district, Southland, during the absence of Mr. R._ G. Lye, Resident Engineer, Invercargill, who is paying a visit to Australia for two months. T'<--, death occurred in Auckland last, week-of Mr. David Flett, eldest son of Mr. W. Flett, of Masterton. Deceased, who was only married last June, was at the time of his death, manager of Mr. Rutherford's Wairawa Downs Station, Onewkero. < Lieut.-Commander George H. Denniston, R.Ni, who'has received the D.S.O. for services on the occasion of the destruction of the German gunboat Hermann yon Wismann on Lake Nyanza. is the son of Mr. G. H. Denniston, of Peel Forest, Canterbury. He joined the Navy seventeen year£ ago. Lieut. A. F. R. Rohloff, Canterbury Infantry, 3rd Reinforcements, after having seen some six months' active service on Gallipoli, has been promoted to. the rank of captain, and he has received orders to, proceed from Egypt to the New Zealand camp at Hornchurch, England. Good fellowship was the dominant note prevailing at a gathering of about fifty members of the Victoria Bowling.Club in'the club's pavilion last evening to 3ay ■good-bye and wish God-speed to their fellow-bowler, Mr. John Mackay, late Government Printer, on tie eve of his departure on a visit to the Homeland. The president of the club (Mr. J.; S. Keith) occupied the chair, and conveyed the good wishes of the club to Mr. Mackay, a member -of eighteen years' standing, and one who three years in succession had filled the presidential chair—an honour which the club had to the present conferred on none other of its members. Messrs. W. Mack, G. M'Morran, M. Marks, and F. C. Cray made eulogistic references to their guest's qualities as a bowler and as a man, and when his health was proposed by the president the response was most enthusiastic. Mr. Mackay expressed the hope and intention to return in due time and once again engage his brother-members in the friendly game. He presented to the club a framed enlarged photograph of himself, which, on behalf of the club, Mr. Keith accepted as a welcome and valuable addition to their gallery of expresidents. During the evening contributions in song and story were given by Messrs. F. C. Cray, j" Martin, G. M'Morran, Hugh Wright, Partridge, Gnllichan, M. Marks, J. Hislop, G. Wilson, and the chairman, Mr. P. Lsvi presiding at the piano. The singing of " Auld Lang Syne" and the National Anthem brought a most enjoyable function to a close. Mr. Mackay"l leaves by ■ to-niglit's Main Trunk train for Auckland, from which port he embarks.