PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 92, 16 October 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

Her Excellency Viscountess Jellicoe, accompanied by Captain Mundy, A.D.C., returned by the Tahiti to-day, from a risit to Australia.

Signor Lucien Cesaroni left to-day by the Main Trunk to Auckland.

Mr. W. Cooper, chief clerk at the Dannevirke railway station, has been promoted stationmaster at Levin.

Mr. N. Falla, general traffic manager for the Union Steam Ship Company, has returned from a visit to the South Seas. ' ,

Mr. W. E. C. Oswin, accompanied by Mrs. Oswin and Miss S. T. Oswin, is leaving Wellington by the- Obrinthic to-; morrow on a visit to England.

Mr. G. W. Thorpe, returned by the Niagara on Saturday from a business trip to England, the Continent, and America.

A Press Association message from Timaru reports the death of Mr. Arthur Ernest Timaru Rhodes, son of the late Mr. D. T. Rhodes, "The Cliffs," aged 30 years.

Mr. H. P. Stanaway, chief passenger clerk, Dunedin Railway Station, has been appointed stationmaster, Napier, in place of Mr. H. P. West, who is to take the position of chief clerk in the Dunedin traffic manager's office.

Mr. Andrew Tulloch, rather of Captain Tullooh, harbourmaster at Westport, died this morning at the age of 78 (states a Press Association message from Westport). He was a well-known mariner, and at one time foreman of the Union Company at Port Chalmers.

Messrs. J. Fuller, Jun., and D. Frankel leave for Auckland to-morrow. They have been touring the Dominion for John Fuller and Sons, and have transacted some important deals, including the purchase. of a site for a theatre in Christchurch on behalf of a theatrical company in Australia.

The Rev. Father J. Gottfried has arrived in Alajuela, Costa Rica, from Wellington. He had an adventurous voyage,and on the trip from Colon to Port Limon was on a fifty-ton schooner when &. benzine lamp in the engine-room burst, the resulting fire being extinguished with much difficulty.

The death is reported of Mr. Daniel Douglas MacDonala, barrister and solicitor, of Dunedin. He was born at Jedburgh, Boxburgshire, Scotland. He passed his barrister's examination at Wellington in 1878. He commenced to practice in Invercargill in 1879. In his more active days he was a very enthusiastic rose-grower.

Mr. H. F. Ayson, Judge of the Native Land. Court, who has been appointed Administrator of the Cook Islands, and who leaves for Rarotonga to-morrow, was farewelled by the Eotorua Bar on Thursday, and also by two gatherings of Maoris. At a meeting of members of the Arawa tribe, Mr. Ayson was presented with a walking stick handsomely carved in Maori fashion, a greenstone pekapeka (carved pendant-for watch chain), and a kie-kie kit for Mrs. Ayson.

The tablet in memory of the late Father Dore for erection in the Roman Catholic Church at Foxton, his old parish, and presented by the. Auckland branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association, has been received at the Foxton Presbytery' and will shortly be unveiled, says an exchange. Father Dore is affectionately remembered as the padre who was attached to the Auckland Regiment of the Mounted Brigade of the "Main Body. He served on Gallipoli with the regiment and was wounded in August, 1915, being subsequently invalided back to New Zealand, where his death followed as the result of his war injuries.

Mr. Robert Patterson, of Westport, who has been accepted as the official Liberal-Labour candidate, for Motueka; is a native of Reefton. He was the first native of Reefton to bo elected to the School Committee, and to be elected as the Crown tenants' representative on the Nelson Land Board, on which body he has sat for 1 some twelve years. Mr. Patterson is an ex-president of Buller A. and P. Association, ex-member of the defunct Westport Harbour. Board, a member of the Buller Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, County Council, Licensing Committee, and Domain Board, secretary of the Westport Jockey Club, and a member of th« Grey Metropolitan District Bncing Committee. He is -particularly interested in land questions, and, in this connection, has be on of vary great assistance to people on tho land.