PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 14, 16 January 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir James Allen, Miniiter of Defence, leaves for Christchurch and Dunedin tonight, and'returns to Wellington on Wedposday next.

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey was a passenger by the Maori from the South this morning.

Sir Joseph and, Lady Ward arrived from the South by the Maori this morning. . '-'„

Hon.- G. W. Russell, Minister of In- : tevnaL v.Affnirs, leaves for the South this ! evening, and returns to Wellington on next.

Mr B. V. Pembertcm, of the Government Meteorologist's Office, left for Neleon to-day on a holiday visit.

i Brig.-Gfen. Sir Robert Anderson, who («3s to act as\ chairman of the Defence iixh.penditure Commission, will arrive in ■'Wellington on the 28th instant, i Professor Thomas C. Trueblood, of i 3Uichi£an University, U.S.A., leaves by - to-night '■& ferry steamer for Dunedin, ; where it-.is understood he will attend the • meetings of the University Senate.

; The Bey. Father Fitzgibbon (of LimV'erick), who has arrived from Ireland, (via America, is about to take up duties ■in tho Archdiocese of Wellington. The '(Rev. !-Father Tangney (of Killarney), ?,xvh<? has also arrived, is to go to the '(Archdiocese of Adelaide (South Australia).

! Mr. Gerald T. Baker, chairman of the [ principal office and board of the Colonial g.Mutual Life Assuranco Society, Melfe,bourne, and Mr. C. E. Melville, man••j'ager of the principal office of the society, Pare, at present in Wellington, on bnsipness.; Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Melville j accompany their husbands. The death has occurred at Reefton o£ i, Mr." Frank Burns, a well-known mining !•'■contractor. Mr. Burns was head of the ''■ party of contractors who drove the tunj net'for the Addison's Gold Mining Comj .pariy". He was an Australian by birth, phad; resided in Reefton for 16 years, and f jvas held in the very highest esteem.

The Rev. J. Richards is to be trans--1 ifcrred from the Wellington South [..(Methodist circuit to Dannevirke after the .■annual conference in Dunedin next ! month. At the quarterly meeting of the (■circuit this week he was complimented 'on tie excellent work that he has done j in '^Wellington South in the interests of fethe": okurch, and good wishes for his Kfutnr* success were, voiced.

i Mi. Thomas M'Govern, who for many j years was a well known member oE the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union, died at his.residence, 98, Abel Smith- : stusefc; on Monday last. Mr. M'Govern I'-watf 55 years old, and was a native of i liOildpn^ Jhe funeral, -which took place fthis'tstfternoon, was largely attended by ! members of the Waterside Workers' I Unioii, which was officially represented I by MRj J. G- Bruce, secretary. i Oji 26\th November the death oflßtrried ' at Parriliam House, Dorsetshire, of Mr. /•Edward' Moorhouee, formerly a very, well 1 known vresident in New Zealand. He tpaesed a*ay peacefully, after an illness Vcf rather,"onore than three weeks, in the /)B*,:yeaiColthjs .age.; For'many years Mr. pand; Mrs.'Moorhouse'have been living ■ in England'j-witli their family, chiefly in '■ Northamptonshire, ( where Mr. Moor- •. \hoii66 was well known in the hunting ,'field. He leaves a widow, two daugh'i teva, and one son. One- son, his elder } eoii, Lt. W. E.'Bhodes Moorhouse, V.C., 'was the first airman to receive this , coveted award. He died in France early j in .1915, from wounds sustained ■ while ■ dropping bombs-on Courtrai. Mr. Moor- ! house*, had many- relatives and friends in KNeiv Zealand.

Dvr., B. J.. Pycroft, who has been i awarded the Military Medal, is the ■eldest son of Mr. E. Pycroft, Mafche- ' Bon's-ToaU. liinsrood. Dvr. Pycroft was born in Wellington and was educated at East ChrisMiurch School. He left New i Zealand -w!ih. the artillery draft of the sth,Reinforcements. He landed at Gaba Tepb on Bfch August, 1915, and did duty there for a month. Dvr. Pycroft is 21 years of age.

, The funeral; of tho late Mr. Arthur I'Marsden took place yesterday morning

( and was largely attended. The palli 'bearers were Messrs. W. Melhuish, W. ': Hay, W. Rennie, R. Kirk, 0. Naugh- ; ton; and B. Wylio (representing Petone (Bowling Club). The chief mourners were [ Messrs. C. and L. Marsden, sons of deceased, and among those present were Messrs. W. H. Millward (managing I director of the Gear Company), W. f Lodder (chief engineer to the Gear Comi panyj, J. Q-. Castle, members of the Pei.tone Bowling Club, Ulster Lodge of ,/Mjiscms, and Druids. The Rev. Stealey, I of Petone, conducted the service at the i graveside, and a burial service was also readjsy Arch-Druid W. B. Gough.