PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 131, 4 June 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) will probably return from the. South on Saturday. Mr. Massey may afterwards proceed to Auckland to be present at a dinner which is to be tendered to the Hon. C. J. Parr by;his constituents in Eden electorate. ■■•".'.''•.'

The Hon. W. Downie Stewart (Minister of Customs) is expected to return from Dunedin on 10th June.

The Hon. W. Nosworthy. (Minister of Agriculture) is expected to return from, Ashburton on Friday. , '.

• Mr. E: H. Lawford, manager of the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., Gisborne, has been transferred to the Napier branch. Mr. G. M'Leod succeeds Mr. Lawford at Gisborne

Mr. N. D. Binnie, freight manager for the Commonwealth and Dominion Line is leaving -Wellington this month by the Port Wellington on a combined business and pleasure trip- to London.

The Rev. R. J. Stanton, who for the past five years' has been vicar of St. Andrew's (Anglican) Church, Inglewood, has been appointed vicar of Ellerslie, and will take up his duties in a fortnight's time. Previously he was curate at St. Barnabas, Mount Eden, and St. Mary's Cathedra!, Parneli: The .Rev. Horace Lindsey, rector of Sutton West,.Ontario, Canada, has been appointed vicar of; Inglewood. ■■'..■ . •

Mr. J. Tucker, who has been appoint ed secretary of the Wellington Storemen's Union, vice Mr. H. Dyson, resigned, took up his duties to-day. Mr. Tucker has been associated with the Labour movement for a very long period. He was associated with the miners' organisations in Wales, and since coming to New Zealand some years "ago he has been a member of the Labour Eepresentation Committee - and an office-' holder' in the union of "which he is now appointed secretary. •" ■

Mr. Edwin Thomas Gourlay, -who died: at. Christchurch' on .Monday, aged 50. years, had been in the employ; of the Christchurch Press Company, Ltd., practically all his-life, having joined the' company's service on leaving school. He was in the commercial department for a little time, after which he became a compositor. When hand setting was, superseded by the linotype. Mr. Gour-' lay transferred to the machines, and ■was for some time the "Father of the" Chapel" of "The Press" Companionship. The late Mr. Gourlay was a member of-the Oddfellows' Order. He leaves a widow and ,a son, Mr. 'E.. Gourlay, who is'on the staff of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson. Six years ago,another son, William, lost his life in an avalanche disaster on Mt. Egmont.

The death took place on Saturday last of another of Napier's old identities in the person of Mr. Thomas Timothy JM'Oarthyj who for nearly sixty' years had been a resident of HaWkes Bay, and who was known from one "'. end of the province to the other. The late .Mr. M'Gartliy was born ■in Limerick, Ireland, in 1850, and came to Hawkes Bay in 1866, first taking service with the late Mr. A. E., Russell, at Mangakiiri. A few years later he was appointed to the staff of Messrs. Kinross and Co., at Port Ahuriii, with whom he remained for about twenty years,:during, most of which period he acted as wool buyer for the firm, being probably at that time the principal, wool buyer in the province. On the passing of Messrs. Kinross and Co.'s business into the hands of Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Mr. M'Carthy remained with the latter firm, and continued in their employ for a little over twenty years, when he retired into private life. Though he had passed the allotted three score'years and ten he.had enjoyed excellent health up to a few months ago, when he had to iindergo a serious operation . from which he never fully recovered: -.' He leaves a widow and a grown up family of two sons, Messrs. C J. .M'Carthy, of Wellington, and Allan' H. M'Carthy,- of Napier, and two daughters, Mrs T. Edmundson, of Napier, and Mrs. W. H.Wilson, of Auckland, . and fourteen grandchildren.