PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 41, 18 February 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Henry Galway, Governor of Western Australia, arrived in Wellington by the Moeraki yesterday. He is staying at the Wellington Club.

The Hon. J. G. Coates (PostmasterGeneral) will return to Wellington from Auckland to-morrow.

Dr. R.. H. Makgill (Acting Chief Health Officer) returned to Wellington to-day.

Lieut.-Colonel T. M'Cristell, Chief Ordnance Officer for the Dominion, left with the Parliamentary Party yesterday on the visit to Samoa.

Mr. E. T/Taylor, of Kilbirnie, who met with a serious accident last month, is at present on a health-recruiting visit to the South Island, and is not expected back in Wellington for some time.

Mr. P. J. O'Regan, who appeared for the plaintiff in the, case heard at Auckland this week in which the widow of Walter Readford, a watersider, obtained £1800 damages against the agents of the Ayrshire, on which vessel her husband was accidentally killed, will return to Wellington on Saturday.

Lieutenant-Colonel D. Eardley Fenwick, N.Z.M.0., who was recently officer commanding Queen Mary Military Hospital at Hanmer Springs, is being demobilised. He is at present in Wellington, where he intends to practice his profession as a physician.

M. Lucien Nopenaire, a well-known wool buyer in the New Zealand salerooms, states a private message, has been advised by a. Royal decree that His Majesty King Albert . of Belgium has been pleased to confer upon him the Crois de Chevalier de l'Ordre de Leopold, for distinguished services rendered. At a meeting of the Wellington Presbytery held in Khandallah Church last evening it was agreed, on the motion of the Rev. Jas. Paterson, to sustain a call from Khandallah congregation to the Bey. D. J. A. Shaw, of Te Awamutu. The call, which was a very hearty one, signed by 98 members in Khandallah and Johnsonville out of a roll of 122 and concurred in by 46 adherents, is being forwarded to the Waikato Presbytery.