PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 86, 10 April 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

. VICE-REGAL; - His Excellency, the Governor-General returned from the South this morning..

I The Prime Minister.will return to Wellington to-morrow morning from the South. ' : " . The Prime Minister'(Mr. W.F. Massey) continued his tour of Southland yesterday, .when he visited the eastern dis- j tnct; including the .Mataura Island dairy ! factory, Waimahaka; Glenham. Wynd- j liam,-Edendale, Mataura, and Gore. At ' Mataura, says a Press Association nies- I sage irom Gore, Mr. Massey opened tl>enew paper mills, the largest in t.l southern Hemisphere. A civic recep- ■ tion^was tendered to the Prime-Minister i 011 his arrival at Gore, and a :public social- was held in the evening! The Minister of Education, Hon C J. Parr, leaves for Auckland to-morrow ' returning to Wellington on Monday next. The Minister of Health, Hon. Sir M. Pomare, left for the Waikato by the main trunk express yesterday. Hon. Sir. E.. H. Rhodes, Minister "of Defence, leaves -for the South to-night. Me is to unveil a roll of honour at the r tUT.rIP. v Sch°ol- The Minister returns to Wellington on Sunday. Sir Joseph Ward is visiting the South Island. ' v A Zulu war veteran, Mr. John Patrick Seeler, of Orakipaoa, Temuka died recently at Timaru. . The Director of Education (Mr J. Oaughley) is visiting Canterbury and Utago on official business. Mr. 'and Mrs. N. M'Nicol, of Maarama crescent, leave to-night by the Moeraki for Melbourne and Sydney. Mr..S. S^ M. Bish, of the Wairarapa Xrading Company, Featherston, has been appointed clerk to the Greytown Borough Council. 1 ' Mr Richard Brinsley, ironfounder, Auckland, is dead; aged 64 years. At one time he was a member of the City Oounicl—Press Association. ! Mr. W. J. T. Wiggs, of the Public Works Department, has been transferred from Auckland, as inspecting officer of the Department, with headquarters at Wellington. ' Sergeant W. J. Brophy, of the 7th Battery, N.Z.F.A., and Sergeant M. Niccoll, of the 7th Wellington-West Coast Regiment, were successful in passing the recent officers' examination, and have been appointed second lieutenants. Mr. E. J. Wiffin has been appointedto represent the Wellington Acclimatisation Society on the Chamber of Commerce committee which is considering how best tourist traffic can be devel° oped. The Rev. J. H. Thomson has resigned from the charge of the Amuri Presbyterian Church' after a nine and a half years' stay there. He has received an. invitation from the charge of Kennino--ton, Invercargill. "The London correspondent. *mtmg under date 3rd March, says that Or. J. Phmmer (Wellington) is taking a post graduate course at Middlesex Hospital with a view to studying for the first section of the Fellowship examination next July. ' Mr. G. B. Dall, who retired some years ago from active service in the Post and Telegraph Department,' but who has since represented the Department on the Pd&t and Telegraph Appeal Board, left the Dominion recently for a tour of the East which' will occupy, several months.During his . absence his duties on the Appeal Board will be performed by-Mr H. P. Donald, chief postmaster, Timaru'. - The/death is announced from Timaru of Mr. John Scott -Rutherford, Opawa estate,, Albury, aged 79 years: Deceased arrived m the Dominion in 1860, and had been a resident in South - Canterbury since 1870. He took, an-active part m local affairs, and occupied many prominent positions. Mr. George J. Newman, who 4"cd recently at Auckland, was born at New Plymouth in 1851, and was ■'the''eldest son of. the late Mr. John Litchfield^Newman, of Kmsale, County Cork, Ireland. H e was one of the founders of the first bowling club in New - Plymouth, ami was at one time a member of the New Plymouth- Borough Council.; Mr. W. H. Taylor, horticulturist of the Department of Agriculture,, .who is retiring on superannuation, was yesterday presented by vthe staff with a wellfilled wallet. Mr. F. S. Pope,. Assistant of the Department, in making the presentation, spoke in terms of high appreciation of Mr. Taylor's services. Mr/ Taylor suitably replied. The death occurred in London on 25th February of Major Herbert Freyberg, F.S. Arc, F. 5.1., at his residence, in Gray's Inn square. The late Major Freyberg, was the son of Mr. James Freyberg, of- Wellington, and eldest brother of Lieut-Colonel Bernard Cecil Freyberg, V.C., C.M.G., D.5.0., but he was never in New Zealand. He leaves a son, Commander G. Freyberg, 0.8. E., R.N., who is now serving at the Admiralty! Another son, Russell, who was also a naval officer, was killed during the war. The funeral service was held at Ss. Anselm and Cecilia Church, Kingsway, the coffin resting before the altar. Some fifty relatives and.friends were present. The interment took place . subsequently at Norwood Cemetery. a j Mr. Arthur Dunkley, Addington, one I of the early settlers in the Dominion, died on Tuesday at the Christchurdi | Hospital. In his early days Mr. Dunkley was onexof those attracted to the Antipodes by the gold-mining rush in Australia. After a number of years in the Commonwealth Mr. Dunkley came' to New Zealand. Ho was particularly well known in sporting circles, and before the present -Defence scheme was an enthusiastic volunteer. Four of his sons are intimately connected with the newspaper world, Mr. 0. F. Dunkley being a journalist in Sydney, Mr. A. W. Dunkley on the literary' sta' of the Christchurch "Sun," and Mr. A. D. 'Dunkley publisher of the same paper, and Mr. E. H. Dunkley, of the staff of the Oamarii "Mail." Dr. Humphrey Haines, who died at Auckland on Monday, was born in Cork in 1856, and arrived in -Auckland .in 1886. He was in practice as an oculist and aurist until a few years ago, when he retired. A keen yachtsman and enthusiastic angler, he also had several scientific interests, notably geology and electricity. Ah interesting point about .Dr. Haines's career is the fact that he was the first person to discover the great Waimangu Geyser. ■ In the, 'eighties he was camped in the vicinity west of Rototnaiiana, and in the course of the night, heard unusual rumblings. Next morning the doctor sallied out with his camera" and was fortunate enough to witness the first shot of the great geyser ever beheld, and tp obtain an excellent photograph of it. It was he who appropriately named the magnificent spouter " Waimangu " (black water), and the Government accepted his ch'rist-ening and made it permanent. Dr. Haines was also a Maori linguist, and devoted his later years to the compilation of a collection of Maori proverbs, - which was practically ecJmplete at the time of his death—sufficiently so for publication— and willbe a-valuable addition to NewZealand literature.