PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 93, 17 October 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Minister of Defence (the Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes) will leave for theSouth to-night. He will attend the Ellesmere A. and P. Society's Show at Leeston to-morrow. Mr. F. W. Hart, Clerk of the Magistrate's Court at Wellington, leaves on Friday by the Ulimaroa on a holiday trip to Australia. Messrs. H. F. O'Leary, J. H. Richardson, R. W. Armit, C. Hickmott, and X A. Little were elected members of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr. S. S. Dean, chairman of the New Zealand Rugby Union, left for Wanganui to-day. He is making the trip on office and Rugby Union business, the latter being in connection with the dispute regarding the. Taranaki and Wanganui boundaries. Messrs. John Myers, S A Longuet, A. F. Roberts, J. T. Martin, A. Fletcher, A. Leigh Hunt, and D. A. Ewen have been appointed to represent the Wellington Chamber of Commerce at the annual conference of Chambers of Commerce, to be "held at Auckland on the 21st and 22nd of next month. Advice was received in Wellington today of the death of Mr. William Davenish Meares, a well-known figure in business circles in Christchurch for many years. Mr. Meares was general manager j of the Alliance Assurance Company from the time the company commenced business in New Zealand in 1882 until he re- : signed in 1915. He was a life member of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce. At yesterday's meeting of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Mr. John Myers, president, referred to the death of Mr. S. A. Giller, general manager of the New Zealand Farmers' Distributing Company. A resolution was carried expressing the deep regret of the council at the. death of Mr. Giller, who had for many years been engaged in the commercial life of Wellington. The death is announced, after a long and painful illness, of Mr. W. A. Millar, of Lyall Bay, who was formerly ■ wellknown in the sporting world and to 'the end was an enthusiastic follower of boxing, of the history of which he ,had a wonderful knowledge. During the war he served as sergeant in the Samoan Force, and the effect of a long sojourn in the tropical climate of Samoa led to the final break-down of his health. He was in receipt of a military pension on that account. He leaves a widow and six sons and two daughters.