PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 54, 6 March 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL,

His Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount. Jellicoe, who for a few days last week was the guest of Mr. J. C. N. Gvigg, at Longoeacli, has now returned to Pareora. A Press Association telegram from Auckland announces the death of Mr. J. J. Walklate, ex-Town Clerk and,Gen-.j eral Manager of the Auckland Tramways. Messrs. A. C. Croll (president), R. M. Brewer (immediate past president), and C. W. Rushbrook (past president) will go to Christchurch to represent the Wellington Commercial Travellers' Association at the annual conference of the- Commercial Travellers' Association of New Zealand this week. Mr. R. E. Selby, secretary of the Wellington association, will accompany them. A very old resident of Wellington, Mr. Thomas King, died recently in the Ar-ck-land Hospital. He served in the Crimean War, and continued his military career in New Zealand in the Maori War. For many years he was a servant of the Wellington Harbour Board. He was one of the first members of the Court of Sir George Grey. His widow survives him, and he leaves a. son and two married daughters, one of whom (Mrs. J. Gasonj lives in Johnsonvillc. Mr.,G. D. M'Farlane, of Woodville, chairman of the Riverbank Dairy Company, who recently went Home as a director of the New Zealand Producers' Association, Limited, hae taken up his duties with his fellow New Zealand director, Mr. Robert , Ellison. Mr: M'Farlane, who left Glasgow twenty-one years ago, lately spent a week or two in his native place, and had the pleasure of meeting many old friends. The Rev. T. Dent, who has been appointed by the Methodist Conference to work in the Solomon Islands, will be the first missionary to go out under the new arrangement by .which New Zealand assumed complete missionary control of the Solomons. Mr. E. Chivers was appointed lay missionary, wireless operator, and engineer to the same mission station. Sister Lilian Berry, a trained nurse, was also delegated to work in the Solomon Islands. Under the scheme arranged by the Education Departments of England, Canada, and New Zealand for the interchange of teachers, Miss Maud Forster, a London' County Council school teacher, has arrived at Palmerston North, states a Press Association telegram. She waß welcomed by the. Mayor and teachers, and Miss Forster takes the place of Miss Chapman, of the Terrace End School, who lately left for England to teach there. ' ' Councillor H. A. Armstrong, a member of the Works Committee of the Perth City Council, is at present on a visit to Wellington; Mr. Armstrong has been touring in the South Islam}, and leaves for the North shortly, tin his return to Wellington he will inspect the Wellington City Council's milk station, and the other departments of local municipal activity, including the manufacture of •concrete flagstones, the introduction of ■which is being considered by the Perth City Council. Mt. Armstrong is a ■native of Dunedin, but has been residing in Western Australia for thirty years. Mr. Thomas Culpan,'who was Regis-, trar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Auckland for twenty-four years prior to his retirement about two years ago, died on- Thursday. Mr. Culpaii was born in Auckland sixty-eight years ago, his father being the late Mr. William Culpan, who arrived in the ship Jane Gifford in 1841. In his younger .days Mr. Culpan resided at Wanganui and Invercargill, and in Tasmania, returning to Auckland about twenty-eight years ago. Mr. Culpan took a great interest in Church matters, and was for many years a member of the choir and the vestry of All Saints' Church, Ponsonby. His widow and one son, Mr. Hector Culpan, and his only daughter, Miss Rona Culpan, live T3 Auckland. Another son, Mr. Kenneth Culpan, is at Rockhampton, Queensland. A third son, Mr. Roy Ciilpan, died in Egypt while on service with the Australian Main Body. ■ \