PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

' The Minister of Health (the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare) returned to Wellington from Waipukurau last night. Mr. F. T. R. Johnson, Controller of the Post Office Savings Bank, has been appointed a Justice of the Peace. The death is announced from Dunedin of Mr. John C. M'G'eorge, aged 61, best known in mining operations, and director of the Westport Coal Company. , Mr. J. H. Richardson, formerly Government Insurance Commissioner, has been appointed a member of the. Public Trust Office Investment Board. . Professor Haslam, for many years Professor of Classics at Canterbury College, died in a private hospital in Auckland.— Press Association. ■' Mr. G. G. G. Watson, of the legal firm of Chapman, Skerrett, Tripp, and Blair, has returned to the Dominion, after a six weeks' tour of the Islands, including Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga. - Mr. J. Mac Donald,. Assistant.General -Manager of the" New Zealand Railways, who has been on a visit to Australia together with Mrs. Mac Donald, returned to Wellington on Tuesday. The Secretary of Marine (Mr. G. C. Godfrey) left yesterday for Auckland, where, with the Chief Inspector of Fisheries (Mr. -L. F. Ayson) he will investigate the purse seine method of fishing in the Hauraki Gulf. . _ The appointment of Mr. M. J. Rear[don as-one of the Information Officers at the New Zealand Court at the Brit- I ish Empire Exhibition was the subject of expressions of approval at last night's meeting of the Wellington Trades andLabour Council. Mr. Reardon has been president of the council on several occasions. The Rev. J. E. Holloway, D.Sc, at present vicar of Leeston, has been appointed lecturer in botany at Otago University. Dr. Holloway, who is one of New Zealand's leading botanists, had a distinguished scholastic career at St. | John's College, Auckland, and Aucki University. He graduated B.Sc. in iy<J4, M.Sc. (with first-class honours in natural science) in 1907, and D.Sc. in 1917: After holding various curacies in England and New Zealand,- he became vicar of Oxford in 1912, of Hokitika. in 1916, and of Leeston in 1922. '