PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 27, 31 January 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

. Sir James Allen left for Palmerston North this-afternoon. He will return probably to-morrow evening.

Mr. G. J. L. Hewitt, S.M., has been appointed Chairman of the Nortt and South Island Railway Boards of Appeal.

A motion of condolence with the re latives of the late Mr. D. D. Weir was Sassed at last night's meeting of the Tew Zealand Rugby Union.

Mr. M'Kay, of Crichton and M'Kay, architects, sailed' from Wellington by the Moana yesterday on his way to England.

Mr. Heathcote, San Francisco manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, has left Wellington for Sydney by the Manuka.

Mr. Fred. Brooke, an.English solicitor since 1869, was yesterday admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand by His Honour Mr. Justice Hosking on the motion of Mr.-E. P. Hay.

The following former cadets at the Royal Australian Military College have been appointed lieutenants in the New Zealand Staff Corps: G. H. Clifton, H. G. Dyer, R. C. C. Steele, L. E. Earle, A. M. Sutherland, P. S. Gillingham, W. N. W. Leech.

The Rev. F. T. Ransom, principal oE the Hikurangi Maori College at Ciareville, is shortly to take up the position, of vicar at Bulls, and he will be succeeded at the college by the Rev. E. E. OH. Tobin; who is now on his way back to New Zealand from thej front.

Mr. Frederick Haybittle, senior partner in the firm of Messrs. George Thomas and Co., who wepE Home" in May, 1914 jand "has done v<*y fine .work on the Continent ever since hostilities began—has arranged to leave London by the Corinthic next Tuesday, 4th February, accompanied by Mrs. Haybittle, who has also been in the Old Country for several years.

Mr. George Lloyd, who died at Cambridge recently, arrived in Auckland eeven years after the colony was founded. Mr. Lloyd, who was 81 years of age at the time of his death, was nine years old in 1847, when he landed in the North with his parents, from the ship Sir Robert Sale. For some years he lived at Howick, where he married a daughter of the late Mr. \7. Mellon, an early surveyor of that district. During the Maori War Sir. EToyd was attached to the Howick cavalry. In 1868 he drove his wife and five children from Tamaki to Orakau, a journey^occupying a week, and farmed at the latter place for some years. . He resided at Ngatoro for 15 years and had been resident in Cambridge for 20 years prior to his death.