PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

His Excellency the Governor-General Viscount Jellicoe arrived in Christchurch last evening, and will stay with Mr. A. E. G. Rhodes, at "Te Koraha," Merivnle. To-day ho plays for the New Zealand Cricket Council against the Canterbury Cricket Association. He will attend a Masonic function at the Civic Lodge this evening, and on Thursday he will visit Akaroa to lay the foundation-stone of the borough War memorial. He will

leave for Wellington on Friday evening,

The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. W. F. Massey, celebrated his sixty-sixth birthday on Sunday. Shortly after his arrival in Auckland, Mr. Massey received a telegram from the Ma,yor of Auckland, Mr. j. H. Gunson, congratulating him in the name of the citizens on his having attained the sixty-sixth anniversary of his birth. The Prime Minister was the recipient of many other complimentary messages dnring the day, and quite anumber of friends called on him at the Grand Hotel. The hotel flag was flown in his Honour, and a. birthday cake was provided by the proprietor as a compliment to Mr. Massey.

Dr. Eric H. M. Luke, who recently resigned from the staff of house surgeons, Wellington Hospital, leaves by the liner Waiwera this week for Great Britain, for the purpose of acquiring further _experience in, his profession. Ihr. Luke is the youngest con of Mr. C. M. Luke, of this city. *

Appreciative and sympathetic reference was made at yesterday's meeting of tb 6 Executive of the V.M.C.A. National Committee to the work of the late Mr. W. M. Hannay, who was a member of the National Executive during the war,, the following minute being recorded : "The V.M.C.A. National Executive places on record its appreciation of the valuable services rendered by the late Mt. W. M. Hannay, during the period of the Great War. His business ability, and his daep interest in the welfare of the New Zealand troops, and his keen desire, to help forward the association's ministry of helpfulness, were all evidenced in his self-sacrificing work. This executive desires to extend its deepest sympathy to the members of his' family and hi 3 friends." !

The late Mr. William Mouat, of Brooklyn, whose death occurred at the Wollington Hospital on Saturday last, was the eldest eon of the late Mr. Barclay Mouat, an old identity on the West Coast, having arrived thereimany years ago from the Shetland Islands. Tt was only a few years ago that.Mr. William Mouat, who was's7; .years of age, came to Wellington from the West Coast, and for about two years he has been in illhealth. He was highly respected by a wide circle of friends, including members of the Oddfellows' Lodge, of which the deceased was an old member: A widow and eight sons and three daughters ar« left to mourn their loss. .Members of the family include::—Mr. W. Mouat, relieving stationraaster in the Auckland district; Constable F. Mouat, of the Police Force, Palmeraton North j ancl Messrs. Dan, Neil, Dennis, and James Mouatj Mrs. Lamplough and Mrs. M'Aloon, both of Te Wera, Taranaki, and Miss M. Mouat, of Wellington.