PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 81, 3 October 1921, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. A. Veitch returned to Wellington I to-day from a visit to Sydney. ; Captain J, Dawson, Harbourmaster at Wellington, who has been away on holiday leave, has resumed his duties. Mr. Malcolm Fraser, Government Statistician, has been on a visit to1 Auckland. ■ • | Mr. Will Lawson, organiser of the j I New Zealand Forestry League, will leave for Auckland to-night. Mr. J. Hislop, Under-SecreEai-y of the Internal Affairs Department, , has returned to Wellington from an official visit to Christchurch. ■ Mr.1 D. M'Gbwan, vice-president of the Wellington Master Carriers' Association, is leaving early. next week for Auckland on a health-recruiting trip. He will be accompanied by Mrs. M'Gowan. Mr. H. M. Millar, chief assistant electrical engineer of the Public Works Department, has returned to Wellington, from Hawkes Bay, where he paid a visit in connection with t!ie formation of' a> power board. Mr. F. D. Thompson, C.M.G., private secretary to the Prime Minister, re- j turned to Wellington yesterday. Mr. Thompson brought with him Mrs. Massey and Miss Massey, who came ahead of the Prime Minister.: Mr. Mausey arrived this afternoon. The death has occurred at Christ- | church /states a Press Association telegram) of Mrs. Ellen Sherlock, aged 837 She arrived in New Zealand by the barque Gertrude in 1 1810. Her first husband was Edward Jerningham Wakefield, _. son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and her second the late Charles Sherlock, a well-known Canterbury journalist. i The •composing staff of tJie Government Printing Office were called round the "stone" last week to say good-bye ,to Mr. E. J. Nation, who is retiring on superannuation. The Superintendent | <(Mr. Skinner), in asking Mr. Nation to accept a marble clock from his fellow workers, congratulated the recipient on his faithful service to the Department. Mr. Nation, in his reply, mentioned that - he had now been 47 years at the trade —20 as an employee of Messrs. Lyon and Blair, 10 on the staff of Messrs. Whitcombe and Tombs, and the final 17 as I a State compositor. j I At a meeting of the Loyal Rose of the Valley Lodge, at Lower Hutt on Saturday evening, feeling reference was madie to the recent death of Bro. John Smith, a P.G.M. of the Order. Members who had been associated with' Bro. Smith, in the work connected with the Wellington District spoke of Ms sterling character and untiring energy, and it was mentioned that in the early days when the Lower Hutt Lodge was started, Bro. Smith, with, his brother Robert, frequently walked from Wellington to attend the Lower Hutt Lodge, and, after the meetings, walked back again. Mr. J. ' Johnston, supervisor of the postmen's division, who is retiring from the Postal Department after forty-two years' service, was entertained at a large gathering of letter-carriers and heads of- departments in the Ponsonby Hall on Saturday night. In making presentations of a black and white portrait of Mr. Johnston and a fumed oak hallstand on behalf of the Postmen's Social Club, the Chief Postmaster (Mr. Grocott) eulogistically xeferred to the sterling work that Mr. Johnston- had performed on behalf of the. Department. When Mr. Johnston first took up his present duties in 1902 there were only 18 men on the staff, but to-day there were 91. Mr. Grocott wished Mr. Johnston, hfs wife, and family . every happiness. Mr. Johnston suitably returned thanks for the gifts, and made some interesting references to j the experiences of postmen in the early days of letter-carrying in Wellington. [ The men who had worked under him, he said, had recognised that civility to the public meant a more efficient service., i ' , ,