PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 48, 25 August 1921, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Francis Bell (Acting Prime Minister) left for Auckland to-day.

Mr. Culford Bell' leaves for Gisborne to-morrow to act as elocutionary judge at the competitions there.

Judge Ayson, of the Native' Land 'Court, is leaiving by the San Francisco steamer to complete his judiciary work at the Cook Islands.

Mr. W. Young, chairman of thjf honorary medical staff of the Wellington Hospital, has been appointed representative of the honorary staff on the Hosipital Committee. ',' Mr. M. Myers, who has been indisposed and confined to his home during the past fortnight, is making a good recovery, and expects to be about again, by the beginning of next week. Mr. Albert Spencer, president of the 'Auckland Provincial Employers' Federation, who has been visiting the South Island, came ap by the Mararoa from Lyttelton t' I'-* morning,'and will leave Wellinil-. ' nckland to-morrow. ' ■'i J , : the Star Boating ; ■ ?rl at the' annual •vening, the club , sympathy to the 1 .!■. J. R. Gibbons, ■'!• of the club. ' ■ '■•: ' ieut.-Colonel ' . filled the •p00iii..... ... „..■ v. . . Training in New Zealand foL' five \ s;uv, will be iglad to learn thai in addition to receiving the C.M.Cr. in the recent King's Birthday Honours, he had conferred upon him Esquire of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and the Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan (thirdclass). Colonel Sleeman has now rejoined his regiment, the Royal Sussex. ' The death occurred at Palmerston North on Wednesday of an old resident of the district, in the person of Cecil lAugustus Victor Hetezzi de Cortando, Baron yon Blaremberg. The deceased gentleman, who was 78 years of age, had resided in New, Zealand for 53. years, and was generally known as Mr. Blaremberg. He' formerly conducted a private school, , but had been iri bad health for many years past.

Mr. W. S. Percy, the popular comedian, who first made'his appearance in New Zealand with the Pollard Opera Company, and who has since become a leading theatrical personage in the Old Country, arrived in Wellington by the Rimutaka from London on Tuesday. Mr. Percy is accompanied by his wife (a sister of Mr. A. E. Donne, of Wellington), and two children, and after a visit to his wife's relatives in Dunedin, he will proceed to Sydney to commence a year's engagement with Messrs. J. C. Williamson, Ltd.