PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1920, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

in view of the forthcoming visit of the Prince of Wales, the Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool propose leaving Wellington this evening for Auckland, where His Royal Highness will be the guest of Their Excellencies at Government, House. On 27th April, Their Excellencies will travel to Rotorua, where they will be joined the same day by His Royal Highness. On 29th April, Their Excellencies will leave Rotorua en route for Wellington.

Colone; H. F. M'Lean, Assistant Director of Medical Services, has left on an official visit to the military hospitals of the district..

. Captain E. S. Baynes, Assistant British Trada Commissioner in New Zealand, who is making his first tour of the Dominion, is at present on the West Coast.

Mr. Leonard Stowe, eoc-Clerk of Parliament,, who had a leg- amputated a few weeks ago, is reported to be progressing as well as can be expected.

Professor E. Marsden. M.C., Professor of Physics at Victoria College, was electr ed a Ffeiiow of the Royal Agronomical Society, at a meeting held in London on 9th- January. The other Wellingtoa members of the society are Dr. O. E. 'Adams ;New Zealand Government Astronomer^ Dr. C. M. Hector, Mr. A C. Gifford, and Mr. C. J. Westland.

Mr. T. R. Lees, who has been appointed Assistant Controller of the Department of Imperial Government Supplies, succeeding Mr. F. H. Taylor, has been since February, 1917, in charge of the • Department's organisation .for the purcfiase of wool and sheepskins on behalf of the Imperial Government.

Mr. William Stirling, who died at Auckland last week at the age of 82, arrived in New Zealand in the ship Bluejacket in 1860. • He was a coloursergeant in the Royal Engineers, and was not only a keen volunteer and a consistent rifle shot, but a well-known, quoit champion, caber tosser, and wrestler.

Branches of the Amalgamated Society of Eailway Servants have taken up with unanimity the proposal to raise a national testimonial to Mr. R. Hampton, the society's president, "as a mark of appreciation of the. sterling fight he has put up on behalf of all railwaymen." Mr. Hampton will retire at the end of the year. \

The Rev. S. Lawry, connexional secretary of the New Zealand Methodist Conference, will leave Christchurch at the end of this month to represent the New Zealand Conference at the meeting of the Australasian Methodist Conference in Sydney. The' Australasian Conference will deal with a proposal that the New Zealand Methodist mission field should be extended to include the Solomon Islands. -

News was received in • Wellington today of the death at his home at Heretaunga of Mr. D. Stewart. For many years the late Mr. Stewart had "been manager of the Wellington branch of the Union Bank of Australia, and it was only at the end of March that he retired on superannuation. Deceased was a man well known and highly, respected in banking and commercial circles, and the news of his death will be received with general regret. A native of Kincardineshire, Scotland, the late Mr. Stewart served some years in the City of Glasgow Bank, and then joined the London office of vthe Union Bank of Australia. In 1877 he came to New Zealand, and iri 1899 was appointed manager of the Dunedin branch, being subsequently promoted to the managership of the Wellington branch. He leaves a widow and four children..' .. .