PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

_ The Hon. J. G.. Coates postmastergeneral and Minister of Public Works and Railways) will leave for? the South .to-night. He will'travel through Canterbury and Westland, .and afterwards go on to Marlborough, returning to Wellington from Picton-on 15th • November. A Press Association cable from Sydney announces the death of Mr. W. *F. Barbett, a noted sporting journalist. '. Mr. A. T. Markham, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, returned to Wellington from the South yesterday. ■ Mr. . F. B. Smith, agricultural adviser to the British Overseas Settlement Delegation, returned to Wellington yesterday from the South Island, where he has been making a rural survey. He will leave by the Tahiti for San Francisco to-morrow, en route for England. Mr. Kenneth Impett, a well-known Auckland journalist, has been appointed managing-editor of the ""Pahiatua Herald." Mr. Impett recently distinguished himself by contributing a special series of articles to the Australian and American Press under the title of "The Natural Resources of New Zealand; a Call to the Lover of Travel." Mr. G. V. Kemsley, for many years a resident of Reikiorangi and Waikanae died at his residence in the latter township on Wednesday last. From 1889 till 1899 he occupied'the position of chief of the Wellington Fire Brigade. He subsequently took up farming at Reikiorangi, and for the past fourteen years has lived at Waikanae. He leaves a widow, two daughters, and two. sons, Messrs. G. and J. Kemsley, of Waikanae..-The'fun' eral took place at Waikanae^yesterday.: At the Dunedin post officey Mr. Brodie, on behalf of the postal officers through^ out the district, presented Mr. J. C. M'Crea with a canteen of stainless cutlery on the occasion of his promotion to chief postmaster at Wellington. In the course of his remarks, etatce a Press Association message, Mr. Brodie 'referred to the very high opinion held by the officers ( throughout the district of Mr. M'Crea's impartiality and sense of justice, and of his great desire to help officers, not only for the benefit of the Department, but for their own improvement. In replying Mr. M'Crea mentioned that he had ■ been stationed at Cambridge, ' Whangarei, Onehunga, Pahiatua, Foxton, Palmerston North, Wanganui, Hamilton, Danrieviike, Hastings, Wellington, Napier, and Dunedin. and was now going back to Wellington. Mr. Morton, on behalf of the clerical branch, presented Mr. M'Crea with a silver-mounted Loewe 'pipe and case.