PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 83, 7 April 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Prime Minister will spend to-day, to-morrow, and ' Wednesday visitingcountry districts in Southland. Mr. Massey returns to Wellington on Friday morning. ' The Hon.. J. G. Coates, Minister of Railways, returned from Auckland by • the Mam Trunk express this afternoon.. The Hon. W. Downie'Stewart, Minister of Customs, returns to ./Wellington from. Wanganui to-morrow. Sir Maiii. Pomare, Minister of Health/ leaves Wellington on Wednesday to open' a new hospital at Matamata.1 On Friday jhe.wiil Jay the foundation-stone of a' • hospital at Taumarunui. He will visit Helensvill.e on Saturday, and return to Wellington on' Monday." ' The. Hon. George Fowlds, and Mr. C. C. Odlin, president of the Wellington Botaxy Club, visited Hastings on Friday on business connected with the Rotarian 'movement.1. ■ '. Judge H. Carr,'of the ■ Native Land , Court, who has been appointed to the Gisborne- district, will take up his ' new'1 'duties, this, Week. ■:' " ' . ' ■ ' i The death is announced at Auckland of Dr. Humphrey Haines: , .Mr. A. Hoyles, president of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce, will represent that body- at the World's Motor Transport Conference...'••■. '■ : v. Mr..R. H. Newbold, of the State. Fire Office, New' Plymouth,- has. been promoted branch manager, of the Auckland of- . fice. ; He .has been .succeeded; at -.New Plymouth by Mr. S;"O. Joneses ' ' Th« Rev. E. Drake, superintendent of the. Wellington South'" Metho'difit' Circuit, and Mrs. Drake : are spending- -a.', holiday m'the.South, .before.'leaving, for' Aiick< 'land .East, to- where Mr. Drake has been transferred. "•'-.'•/' •■'■-. :K . ',' ... ~:. ' , The Rev. P.B. Lawrence, of the Methodist Church, Tua. Marina, is Vein" , transferred: to Wellington. At a farewell gathering in Marlborough, Mr. and' Mrs, LaVrence were presented with tokens' of esteem. }.\ ■' : ■::. :: .; ,-. . v . „.. r -Mr.- J. S. Jessep, ;vice-chairman bf the New .Zealand /Meat Producers' Control Board/ accompanied by his wife and daughter, will sail on 16th April for Eng- : land and the Continent. ' . . , -Judge Brown, who* was-in Wenganui 1 four years; ago,.and was removed to the East Coast,.' has-been transferred back'.tf Wangariui as Judge! of the;"Aotea Maori Land Court district. „ ",.' ?The. Rev. John Ryley,, minister of the'; Presbyterian congregation in the Wanaka ■ district, recently reached his1: diamond, jubilee in religious service, and was presented "with- a wallet of riotes and a number of .books. ■■''.'; \-\- ■ ; ':■ '■■■■ ■ '■ Advice:received by".the- Palmerston North Defence office is -that Colonel P.owles has been appointed Officer Com-' mandinn;-. the Central 'Command,- -vice Major-General : Melyill,' appointed .Get; i era! •" Officer. Commanding: the . Forces. (^lonel/Burgess^!will;;-lJe"--Actiiig-C!Hief.'.'of Staff -at Headquarters,; Wellington. /'/■', Members of the Midland 'Cricket Clvb1. j on Saturday .made-a.presentation, to Mr. I.A. J. Bruce, one of their menibers, who was recently married.- The presentation was made by Mr. W. A. Baker (captain of the senior eleven), who/referred to the good service Mr. Bruce had rendered the club, and the estimation in which he was held by members. :. Mr.'.'Bruce.suit-' ably replied. \v ■\' "'•','"" ; . '„'.'■" '. . ;Mr. Thamas Harris', one of the original settlers of; the : Sandon Block; passed away there on Friday, aged 84 years.' He arrived; in> Saridb'n ififty-one,. years ago; and has resided on the same farm ever since.' .His wife.died ayear ago, and he is; survived"" by' • seven.:' sons and ■'■". six; daughters. The sons are Messrs. William nhd George (Cambridge), Thomas, John, Walter, Herbert, and, Arthur (Waimar,ino), and' the; daughters Mrs.. Walter Pearce (Cplyton), . and " Misses May, Maud.i iMinnie, Ida,-'.and iMay' Harris .(Sandon).;.; ■ . . '. ,i . . '• ' i.Mr: James H. A: Pike, a .resident of >iew Zealand.for 63 years/.died at Auckland last. week. . He was. born 73 years ago in Bristol,' England, being the second son of the late Hon. Vincent 'Pyke; He1, same to Dunedin'with his parents in .1861, i and was one, of the ; first boys to attend the High. School in that eitv Later,. Mr. Pyke was .appointed on the staff of tie: Shaw, SaviU Shipping 'Co., - and .made several trips to London in tfie barque Chilfr ,Not. caring for a: seafaring; lifef-Mr. Pyke settled in- Auckland, and wasfbr the past 30 years -connectedwith thikau'ri; gum industry. . ' . .•Mr. ; i\yilliam VjTaylor,. the last surviving member "of ,the : original founders of the Amalgamated Society of:; Engineers' "on the Clyde,' has'just, died at. Ayondale,, aged ,94: -Mr.-IT3.ylor was thorn in;TrbV pick, ; Forfarshire,. Scotland.s and wa3- a marine engineer by : He learned his trade at.the works of Messrs.*' Gourley, Brothers, .marine engineers, Dundee.1 He' was. afterwards .for 15 years engineer on,-some, of the;larg'est steamers of the Italian' mercantile : marine. In those days he frequently, had a chat with the great liberator, .Garibaldi. 'About 20 ■years .-ago Mr,', Taylor"'came 'to ;New. Zeutad and settled at Avondale, where heremained 'until-hia death.' •': .-■.'■ "I.' ■ ' Mri Alex. Waters, a .well-known resi-" dent, of' Wellington, died 'yesterday.' at his 'residences Su'theriand "road..-• 'Mr. Waters appeared in his usual health on Saturday, and was present'at the Basin Rd»erve, an interested spectator of the cricket match, buY: passed away.'-'in his sleep during the night! ■. For a^ number ol years Mr.' Waters- was an energetic supporter of : the Central /Mission. He leaves a widow, a daughter,; Mrs. -William ( Bennetts and a. 'son, .Mr. W. A. Waters, the engineer of the ManawatuOroua Electric Power Board. ■ Cabled advice was received to-day of the death at Aberdeen yesterday of Mr. George Mayo^ KebbeU, well Jaown .in business circles in. this city. Born^in Somersetshire 82 years ago, the late Mr.Kebbell came; to New "Zealand with his parents in .1856., For, ten years he was employed in the flourinills of. Messrs.' J. and T. Kebbell, his father and uncle respectively. After this hetodk a posi-; tion.as purser on a coastal steamer, and in; 1868 he ; entered- into the: shipping business, becoming part-owner of steamers 'which were engaged in the local trade., In 1879, -Mr. Kebbell retired from this business' and ,afterwards became interested in many fWellington:.iri-: dustries. For over 25 years he-jvas chairman and manager of the Equitable Building and Investment Co., to which position he was elected in 1883. Mr. I Kebbell .went Home two years ago, and is ! survived by a.widow and a\large fain-lily.'.i-Messrs'. :G. M. Kebbell, of / New Plymouth, Edward Kebbell (Pahautanui), and A. T. Kebbell,. of the National Bank, Auckland, are1 sons of the late Mr. Kebbell, and daughters are Mxs. Yining (Nelson); Mrs.. Evans, wife of Professor . Evans,- .-late of Canterbury College, and Miss Kebbell, who is in the Old Country.