PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

The Governor-General (Lord Jellkoe) paid his first official visit to Ashbiirfcon and Methven yesterday. He was enthusiastically received, brilliant weather favouring the civic functions in both centres. ■

The Hon. W,, Nosworthy, Minister ot Agriculture, is duo back in Wellington from the South Island to-morrow.

The Hon. J. O. Coates, Minister, of Public Works and Postmaster-General, left for the North yesterday. He will be away from Wellington, for about ten days. • .

Mr. Maughan Barnett, City .Organist at Auckland, is in Wellington.

Mr. J. H. Finney, of Nelson, is on a visit to' Wellington.

Sub-Inspector Willis, who has been transferred to Dunedin, left Wellington last evening.

Mr. William Souness, J.P., an old Pahiatua resident, died last week, aged 73. He was formerly Town Clerk at Pongaroa. , •

The death took place in Masterton on Sunday of Mrs. Hugh Campbell, an old Wairarapa settler, who was born at Wellington in 1841. She leaves a large family. . '

Captain Mundy, A.D.O. to His Excellency ' the Governor-General, who has been spending a week at Gisborne, has returned to Wellington.

Mr. Peter Alston Macomish, divisional accountant in the Public Trust Office, Wellington, has been transferred to Masterton as district accountant.

Mr. Herbert J. Smith, general manager for New Zealand for the Phoenix Assurance Company, leaves to-day by the-Manuka for Sydney. Mr. Smith will,be absent for about a month.

■Councillor, A.?, J. Hobbs last evening resigned his position ad representative of the council on the Taita Cemetery Board. The resignation, was accepted with, regret, and Councillor C. N. Dempsey. was appointed to the position. - :..••■

Inspector Huttan, who is shortly leaving New Plymouth to take up an appointment as police. ' inspector in GisbOTne, and Mrs. Hutton were the recipients of\ presentations by the New Plymouth police.

Mr. Thomas Ross, Grand Master, and Colonel G. Barclay, Grand Secretary,'of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons of New Zealand, arrived from the South this morning, and are stayiroe at the Empire ■Hotel. .. . .■ . ..' , .

A Press Association, telegram, from Feilding states : : Mr. F. A. Asplin, cl#rk of.the Feilding Freezing Company, expired with i great' suddenness this morning, aged 42. He had been ailing, probably from heart trouble. He leaves a widow. ../ ' : " '

Mr. George Williamß, who died at Sandon on Sunday, aged 87 years, came to New Zealand in 1865. He settled first at Lower Hutt, going to Sandon in 1873, and was one ot the founders of the district as well as' the'first schoolmaster there.

Mr. John Dwyer, who recently retired on superannuation from the position of superintendent of the Canterbury police force, was met by a representative gathering of citizens last night and presented with an'illuminated address, a cheque for £700, and an oak bedroom suite for Mrs. Dwyer. i• ' ' ■ ■ v

'V.Mr. .Oscar Lines, chief inspector of the Bank of New.South Wales," has-Veeu appointed general rtianager of the bank in succession to. the late Siv John fyiss'ell French. 'Mr...fi.O. Al|ford, who was appointed acting-general manager following the death of Sir John Russell French, and whose retirement was to have taken place on i,the day : (30th June) hie chief died, now retires. Mi. Lines assumed control last week. ,

A PreS3 Association message from Sydney attnoufloes,the, death,of the" Rev.. Joseph •Robertson v who was chairman of the New Zeajand Congregational Union in 1884, while in charge of the BeTesfoidBtreet Congregational Church, Auckland. A little later Mr. Robertson removed to Petersham,' Sydney, and subsequently had charge of Congregational churches in Adelaide and Ipswich Some years ago he retired from the miriiotry and went to live in.Sydney. • ' .' '

Mr. P. N. Rundle, who has been'in the employ of the "Vacuum Oil Co. at Dunedin for nearly three years, and: has been manager for nine months, is to be' transferred to the company's New Zealand headquarters office in Wellington;' as assistant to the general manager. Mr. • L. H. Dalton, of Perth, will'succeed Mr. Rundle in Dunedin. Mr. Rundle is prominently, connected-with, swimming, having been for five years hon. secretary of the council of the N.Z.A.S.A., and, more recently, president.of the Otago centre of that association. ,'