PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 35, 10 August 1921, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister of Agriculture, has returned to Wellington after a visit to Afehbnrton.

The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister of Lands, go to Dannevirke on Saturday to 'open, ithe co-operative dairy factory at the Tiratu soldier-settlement. He will return to Wellington on Tuesday.

Mr. Walter Monk hais arrived in Wellington to make preliminary arrangements for the English Pierrots' season at the Grand Opera House.

Mr. Hugo V. Anson, M.A:, of Trinity College, Cambridge, has taken the degree of Bachelor of Music of Cambridge University. ' '

The Rev. George M'Neur, of China, has been nominated by the Wairarapa Presbytery as Moderator of the General Assembly f0r'1922.

Mr. R. W. Porter, chief postmaster at Invercargill, has been transferred to Wanganui as chief postmaster;

The Wellington Presbytery last evening placed on record its deep sense of loss to the Church and the congregation in the death of the late Mr. F. W. Mansfield, who was an elder in the church at Khandallah and a very earnest worker for \many years.

Mr. W. J. G. Hunt, an adopted son of the^lateiMalietoa Talavon, formerly King of Samba, died in the Wellington Public (Hospital on Monday. He was intimately connected with Samoan affairs during ■ the struggle for the kingship between the chiefs Tafnasese and Malietoa, and was ultimately deported at the instance of Germany, afterwards taking up his residence in Wellington. Mr. Hunt married the late Mrs. Murphy (the proprietress of the City Hotel, Clyde-quay), and after her retirement from business, Mr.-arid Mrs. Hunt lived privately in Clyde-quay for some years. The late Mr. Hunt was interested .in the mining property taken over by the Dominion Consolidated ,Developing Company (Marlborough), mining gold and scheelite in Marlborough. He had a brother resident in Auckland.