PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 85, 9 April 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

The visit of Lord Jellicoe and liis suite to Otago is drawing to a close. They came to Dunedin .by the express on Monday night, after a visit to the Wakatipu district and a stalking expedition from Paradise towards the Ciiples River. His Excellency and Commander Dove (states "The Post's" Dunedin correspondent) had very good sport with the deer, and secured several nice heads, amongst them a twelve-pointer. Yesterday morning Lord Jellicoe started by motor for Milton, Kaitangata, and Balclutha. This morning His Excellency left by the early express train for Lyttelton to catch the ferry boat for Wellington.

Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P. lor Palmerston North, is visiting Wellington. . Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., left today for Hawera, where he will" temporarily relieve Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M. ' Mr. George Craig, Comptroller of Customsj returned last night from an official visit to the South Island. Mr. K. C. Aekins, associate to his Honour, Mr. Justice Sim, has been appointed secretary to the Taxation Commission. The Rev. W. J. Hands, vicar of Khandallab, has been appointed vicar of Suva in the new Diocese of Polynesia, and' leaves shortly to take up his new work. Mr. C. V. Parton, "until recently A»-aistant-Postmaster' at Christchurch, has arrived in Wellington on transfer to th« Post Office here. The Rev. D. K. Macpherson, vicar of Otorohaiiga, has accepted the pastorate of the parish of Pleasant Point and Albury, near Timaru, and will take up his now work at Easter. The Rev. J. B. Reed, M.A. (Oxford), at present vicar of Wanganui, has been appointed to Marton, to succeed the Ray. V. H. Kitcat, who has resigned owing to ill-health. Mr. F. L. Combs, M.A., headmaster at Featherston, has been appointed teachers' advocate for the Wellington district in the grading appeals. Captain J. Gage-Williams and Mr«. Gage-Williams and family .were passengers by the Ruahine, which arrived at Wellington from Southampton to day. > Dr. G. B. Sweet, of Auckland, accompanied by Mrs. Sweet and family, returned by the Ruahine to-day, from a visit to the Old Country. Mr. F.-W-. Furkert, Engineer-in-Chief oE the Public Works Department, is visiting Otira. He is expected to return w Wellington at the week-end. The sympathy of the " Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Union with Mr. S. G. Hale in the death of his father, was. expressed at a meeting of the committee held last evening. The Mayor of San Francisc.3 (Mr. James Rolph) will arrive at Wellington on Monday by the Tahiti, from San Francisco. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr. 11. A. Wright) will accord Mr. Rolph a civic reception in the Town Hall at noon that day. The Bishop of Wellington (the Right Rev. Dr. Sprott). will visit the Wairarapa next month. The foundation-stone of the new hall at Masterton will' be laid on 3rd May. The Bishop will conduct a Maori Confirmation service at Greytown on the following dtfy. The Yen. H. Reeve, Archdeacon of Waitotara and vicar of Wanganui, where he has spent 12 years of the 21 he has been in the Dominion, has accepted an invitation to Brancaster, Norfolk, England-, and-will leave Wanganui in about three months' time. A- cable message from London reports that Captain T. E. Donne, formerly ■ New Zealand official secretary in London, has been appointed honorary executive commissioner for Britain to the International South Seas Exhibition, to be held at Dunedin next year. Mr.. John Glover has been elected presidentof the Wellington' Labour Representation Committee for the ensuiiif year, and Mrs. : M. J. Forde and Mr. Jolm Glover have been appointed to re- ' present the L.R.C. at the New Zealand Labour Party's annual conference, which, this year will be held in Dunedin durin" faster week. Messrs. C. Eggleton, W. Simpson, and C. H. Chapman, have been .appointed delegates from Wellington to the Easter Conference of the New Zealand Related Printing Trades Federation, to be held in Dunedin. Messrs. R. J. Wilson and Chapman have also been appointed the Wellington Related Printing Trades delegates to the annual conference of the New. Zealand Labour Party. The Right Rev. Dr. J." M. Steward, Bishop of Melanesia, who has been on a health-recruiting visit to the Old Country, extending over a period of eighteen months, returned to Wellington by the Ruahine to-day. Bishop Steward, who has come back very much benefited in health, is staying at Bishopscourt, and will leave for Auckland on Friday. He wiil-return to his Diocese in the Solomon Islands by the mission, steamer Southern Cross on 24th April. "Dr. Newman' was one who always took a very keen interest in athletics. He was connected with several clubs before our time, and, as we know, was always an interested spectator at the Basin Reserve," remarked Mr. A. C Kitto in moving a motion of condolence, in connection with the death of the lats Dr. Newman, which was passeJ at the Wellington Centre of the Amateur Athletic Association last evening.- A similar motion was passed at the meeting of'the Management Committee of : the ..Wellington Rugby Union last evening. Mr, William Trembath, assistant manager of Barrett's Hotel, who succumbed ■to injuries sustained through his motorcycle skidding on the Hutt road on Sunday, was a native of Penzance, Corn-y.-all. He- arrived here eleven years ago, when twenty years of age, and for most of the time since had been associated with Mr. Adam Munro in a managerial capacity. Possessed of a genial character and sterling qualities, he made many friends. He had no relatives in New i Zealand; his mother and two sisters live ' in England. The funeral took place this morning at the Karori Cemetery, where the service was conducted by the Rev j Mr. Harrison. ' ■ ' '