PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 73, 28 March 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Public Works, ' returned to Wellington I from the South Island to-day. The Hon. Sir It. Heaton Rhodes,'. Minister of Defence, will leava for th« I South Island Jo-night. While in./the South he will turn on. the electric, power for the ooonty of Ellesmere. Sir Francis Bell will leave for England by the Athenic, which is duet© sail at daybreak to-morrow. • • Mr. R. ,T. F. Aldrich, secretary of the [ Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association, denies the re)»rt that he is leaving Wellington, and says he has no such intention. , Messrs. W. Preedy, D. 8. Smith, F. K. Hunt, S.M., and S. W. Vosseler have been chosen as members of the Wellington Rotary Club, and were welcomed at to-day's luncheon. Mr. Roderick Paierson, who is retiring from the Union Oo.'s service, waa the recipient yesterday of a presentation from the company's local staff. Mr. W, A. Kennedy, local manager, made the ! presentation. ■ The death of Mr. Frederick James j Burgoss, formerly a Stipendiary Magistrate, is reported by a Press Association I telegram from Auckland. Mr.'' Burgess entered the Justice Department in 1868 as clerk to the Warden's Court afc Thames. Mr. R. B. Bell, advertising manager of the Dominion for the past four years, who is leaving to take up. the position of managing director of the Tima.rn Post and Ashburtoa Guardian, was met by. representatives of the advertising, literary, and commercial staffs of the Dominion yesterday and .'.presented with a memento of their esteem. .The presentation was m;ide by the manager, Mr, A. Sando. / -■■'■■'■ The Hon. D. H. Guthri©, Minister of Lands and Acting-Minister of Railways, left Wellington' for Feilding yesterday, and will attend the opening of the new Feilding Technical School. He will then proceed to Whaagarei, where, with the* Right Hon. the Minister, he will turn the first sod for the HikuTangi swamp drainage scheme. The Minister intends to leave Auckland on 2nd April, and will inspect the Hauraki Plains, the Rangitaiki Plains, and the Waihi swamp. Mr. Gufchrie expecte to return to Wellington in a fortnight's time. At its meeting yesterday the Mana-watu-Oroua Electric Power Board appointed Mr. W. A. Waters, of Auckland, resident engineer, at a salary of £750 per annum, says The Post's Palmerston North correspondent. Mr. Waters, who is 36 years of age, was bom at Ashhurst, and has had considerable experience. He received his preliminary training at Wellington Technical College, and has carried out a number of electrical installations at various places, including Ohakune and Whangarei, besides reporting on schemes for a large number of local bodies. The Board of Governors of .Canterbury College has decided to offer the position of Professor of Chemistry, rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. W. P. Evans, to Dr. H. G. Denham, M.A., D.Sc., of Capetown University (states ji Press Association message). Dr. Denham is the son of Mr. Edward Denliam, of Sumner, and was educated at the •, Christchurch Boys' High School. He is a graduate of Canterbury College, where he obtained his M.A. degree in 1905, and his M.Sc. in 1903. jrior to accepting an appointment at the Capetown ■ University, he occupied the "Chair'"6l' Chemistry at the Brisbane University. An interesting gathering of the Wellington Retail Drapers' and Clothi«rs' Association was held last night, to bid farewell to Messrs. J. R. Rendell (of Auckland, president .of the New Zealand Federation,) J. M. Caughey (president of the ! Auckland Association), Toney>liffe (Gisborne) and T. Queree (Welling. ton,)'all of whom are shortly leaving on business visits to England. Mr. F. G. Page (president of th« Wellington Association) presided. Each. gues6 responded to a toast in his honour, and special reference was made _to the splendid work which had been" done! in the interests 'of the federation by Mt. Rendell. Mr. Rendell was presented .with bound copies of the first seventeen numbers of the New Zealand Draper, of which, journal he has been editor. It was mentioned that for eighteen months Mr. Rendell had devoted a great deal of his time to the association's affairs, and the substantial progress made was largely due to his efforts. . , Thefuneral of the late Mr.. William M: Hannay, which took place yesterday, was very largely attended. That the deceased gentleman was held in high' respect by a very large circle was evident from the representative gathering of citizens who paid tribute to his memory. Abrief service, held at. his late residence j on The Terrace, wae conducted by the j Rev. Dr. J. Kennedy Elliott, assisted by,i the Rev. J. Baird, both of the Kentterrace Presbyterian Church, with which J the late Mr. Hannay was so prominently^ connected for a number of years; The chief mourners were Messrs. A. and-K. B. Hannay (sons), and Dr.-Forrest and Messrs. F. Widdop and J.,S. MatarthTir (sons-in-law). Officers of the Kent-ter-race Church acted as pall-bearers. Those present included all the Presbyterian ministers of Wellington, Sir John Luke, M.P., Councillor T. Forsyth (chairman of the Wellington Education BoardV, Messrs. R. T. Turnbull, ;G. Wilson, 'J. P. Maxwell, J. Marcfej banks (engineer to the Wellington j Harbour Board, and for many years associated with the late Mr. Hannay in the management of the Wellington-Mana-watu Railway Company), W. Helyer, J. A., .0., and R. Plimmer, W. Bethune, E. G. Pilcher, W. Hopkirk, A. E. Whyte, G. Winder, H. D. Vickery, A. and J. Smith, H. W. Kersley, R. C. Jones, W. F. Cuthbertson, Dr."M'Donald , Wilson (superintendent of Wellington Hospital), Drs. Elliott and Young, and many others. There were some beautiful floral tributes from numerous organisations. The interment was made in the Sydney -street Cemetery. ,

AlKvut ten years ago an Aqckiand city dweller built a. buugaiow of five rooms at a cost of a little under £500; the land cost £200, so the total cost of hie property did not run into more than £700. Two years later he decided to go into the country and commence pioneering; he could not sell his bungalow, for what it cost him, but he managed to lease it at 18s 6d per week. After a year or two he got liia pricfi and'sold it, the proceeds helping him to live while lie tried to develop his backblocks farm. It was slow work, however, and getting tired of the bush, he decided to sellout and take up a- highly-cultivated farm. For this he paid £90 per acre, and got along splendidly for. over two years. Then the slump came, and \vhei) he tried to realise the land would not bring £50 an acre. It had to' go, however. Then ho came back to the city to his old trade to work and save so that none of his creditors might suffer. Here ft was that he got the greatest shock of all (states the Star). The house he had sold for £700 was empty, it was ten years old, had never been painted since it was built, and yet the owner wanted £1200 for it, or was willing to lease it at 37s 6d per week! In a few years the house -had nearly doubled in value, and the rent really had doubled. The man is back in his old bungalow at the high rent, and he says that, with the experience he has gained during the past eight years, he should lot make many mistakes iv the future.