PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 37, 12 August 1921, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

"Mr. S. Bryant, chairman of the May kara County Council* ha* been appointed a delegate to.the Couiities Conference, ,i Mr. J., W. Ward jWas to-day admitted as a solicitor of the Supremo Court by the Acting-Chief Justice, Mr. Justice; Sim,' on the motion' of Mr. W. P. > Ward* A Press Association? cableKram; repovte the death of Mr. H. J. Gemtsen, of tiie firm of Oetzes and Gerritseu, lon^ established in the provision trade in London^ and having offices in Wellington. . Mr. I. L. G. Sutherland, ALA, who was awarded the university post-gradu-ate tea veiling' scholarship :fcj4 i, 192fX,was a passenger by the RuaMne yesteixJay. Mr. Sutherland is proceeding to Glasgow University to take up research work. Mr. W. Copeland Trimble, Fellow of the British Institute'of Journalists, and editor of the Imperial Reporter, Enniskillen, Ulster, Ireland; arrived in Auckland, by the Mahieno from Sydney, and after visiting Rotorua wilHeaye for Vancouver by the Niagara on her next trip., Advices have been received by the local office that the general manager of the Royal Insurance Co., ;Ltd., at Liverpool, England, has resigned ac from 31st July, consequent up^on ill-health, and that Mr. J. J. Atkinson, deputy manager, has been.. appointed general manager in his place." . i Councillors. Windley, Bowler, ■ and Monaghan were congratulated to-day by. the Makara' County Council on their appointment as Justices of the Peace. The council also placed on record appreciation of the services rendered .by these . councillors on public bodies for many years past. ■{■ Mr. N: R. M'Kensis, inspector of schools for the Waikato district, will leave for Canada shortly on a twelve-; months' transfer under the arrangement existing between the educational authorities of the New Zealand and 'Canadian Governments. A few days ago a fare-, well social was held at, Hamilton, and teachers from all parts of the district Attended to bid him goodbye.

The funeral of the- late Mr. William Espie, a highly-respected member of. the Commercial Travellers'' Club,' who died suddenly last Wednesday, took pdace this morning. The Rev. E. J. Rich conducted' the service at the graveside. The funeral was largely attended. The pan-bearers included the president and four past-presidents of the Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Association. Among those present were Mr. T. E. ,Y. Seddon, M.iP., Drs. Hamilton Gilmer and Morice', a large number of commercial travellers, and representatives from • the Seatoun Bowling dub, of which deceased had been, a, member.