PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 47, 23 February 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. J. A. Hanan. is due back in Wellington from Napier this evening.

Sir Ernest Shackleton leaves for the South by this evening's ferry steamer.

Mr. B. H. Parker is gazetted Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district of Lower Hutt. ' ■

_■ Sir Francis Bell (Minister of Lands) is on a visit to the Clutha district on Departmental business.

The i Hon.- G. FowJds, who went to Christchurch to attend the Red Cross Conference, was a passenger by the Mararoa .from the South this morning.

M. Rigoreau, French Consul at Auckland, who has been transferred from New Zealand, left Wellington 'by the Riverina for Sydney last night.

Captain F. A. Worsley and Lieutenant Stenhouse, who were connected with the early stages of the Aurora expedition, are now on their way back to England.)

Mr. A. D. Brown, son of Mr. Vigor Brown, M.P. for Napier, has been accepted for, active service, and will -go into the n.c.o. camp on Ist May.

Messrs. W. E. M'Kay, of Komiti, County Mangonui, and J. W. Gannaway, of St. Albans, Christchurch, have resigned their appointments as Justices of the Peace.

Colonel W. D. Holgate, who had been attending the conference of the Coal Mine Owners' Federation in Wellington with delegates from the miners, returned to Auckland last night.

Mr. John E. Hawes has been placed in charge of the Westport. harbour works, Mr. Boult, whose salary was £1000 per annum, having been given leave of absence in order to enlist. Mr. Hawes is to receive: £335 a year.

The flag of the local office of the New Zealand Shipping Company flew at halfmast to-day as a mark of respect to the late Mr. H. P. Murray-A ynsley, a director of the company, who died at Christchurch yesterday.

. The Wellington delegates at the annual conference' of Industrial Corporation of New Zealand, - which was opened in Auckland on Wednesday, are Messrs. F. J. Evans, T. Ballinger, and H. F. Allen.

The Rev. G. W. J. Spence, of Auckland, an ex-president of the .Methodist Conference, and who was stationed at JPalmerston North for four years, is at, present seriously ill. A special" vote of sympathy with him was carried by the Methodist Conference to-day.

The Riveriria, which sailed for Sydney last night, took the following officers of the Antarctic ship Aurora: — Captain J. K. Davis, Messrs. C. P. De La' Mofte (chief officer), A.. A. Daken (second engineer), Dr. F.. G. Middleton (ship's surgeon), arid Mr.. Stevens, a members of the Ross Sea party.

Messrs! 1 P. Selig (Christchurch Press), G. Fenwick (Otago Daily, Times), Smith (Dunedin Star), L. Blundell (Evening Post), F. Pirani (Feilding Star), Hon. G. Carson (Wanganui Chronicle), H. Brett (Auckland Star), and H. Horton (New Zealand Herald) are attending the annual meeting of the United Press Association.

Mr. James Reynolds, of Scarboroughterrace, was one of the three brothers mentioned in The Post yesterday as having met on a Wellington wharf the other day after having been separated for 53 years. The two elder 'urothers worked alongside the late Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon on the old Waimea diggings.

Mr. F. H. Bowler and Mr. P. N. Rundle, president and secretary respectively of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, arrived from Christchurch this., morning to attend the school children's . championship swimming meeting to-morrow. They were acqeompanied by the Canterbury representatives, Norman Batchelor and Miss Batchelor. .

The following have been appointed a Prisons Board for the Dominion:—His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout),-. Mr. G. C. B. .Jordan, (Undersecretary for Justice), Dr. J. F. S. Hay (Inspector-General. of Mental Hospitals), Messrs. C. E. Matthews (Inspector of Prisons), E. Hall (Onehunga);. G. Fenwick (Dunedin), and W. Reeco (Christchurch).