PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Advice has been received: that Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P.; Leader of the Opposition, arrived at Hong Kong yesterday.

Mr. Walter E. Leadley, of Christchurch, has been appointed a member of the National War Funds Council.

The death is announced from Christchurch of Mrs. Selig, wife of Mr. Phineas Selig, formerly manager of the Chnstchurch "Press" Company, after a few weeks' illness!

Lieutenant ..B. J. Shadlow, bandmaster of the First Battalion Band, who has been an inmate of Wellington Hospital for some time, is now reported to be making satisfactory progress towards recovery.

Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., of Wellinga ii ° been on relieving duty in Auckland, has now received notice of his permanent transfer to that town. His place on the Bench in Wellington will be taken by Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker, who recently returned from Samoa, where he occupied the position of Chief Justice. Mr. Walker was stationed an New Plymouth before he accepted the .appointment at Samoa. Mr W H Woodward has been appointed to fill the resu ting vacancy at Samoa, upon Mr. Walker taking up his new duties on Ist .November.

m * Stone > wn° died at Dunedin on Wednesday, was born in London 59 years ago, and carae to New Zealand Joo, I in the saain 5 6hi P Merope. In 1883 he joined his father in the directory publishing business. Mr. Stone was one of the original founders of the Dunedin Cycling Club in the days when the high bicycles were ridden. At a later period he was a prominent member of the Xaituna Bowling Club, and was also a Past Master of a Masonic lodge. He took an active part in the formation of the Master Printers' Association, and was one of its first presidents. Chess was a favourite pastime of the late Mr. Stone, and for a long time he was an enthusiastic member of the Otago Chess Club, and was considered a fine player. The deceased had been m a poor state of health for several years, and was thug prevented from Lilting a prominent part in public affairs. At the time of his death he was a member of the Commercial Tra•oilers' Ciub and the Otago Club. The deceased is survived by his only son, Mr. John Stone, farmer, Puera, and two brothers and two sisters—Mr. G. A. Stone, manager of- the . firm's branch in Wellington; Mr. Harry Stone, who is in the Government service at Ashburton; Mrs. E, Pairman, Sawyers' Bay; and Miss L. M. Stone, of Chriatchurch.