PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. W. F. Massey) left by the Main Trunk train to-day to attend the Palmerston North Winter Show. The Minister of Agriculture (the, Hon. W. Nosworthy) and the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. R. F. Bollard) are also attending the Show. - , °

The Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) returned to Wellington from Auckland this afternoon. Sir George Clifford was a passenger by. the Maori for Lyttelton last evening. At the Petone Workshops on Monday the employees met and presented Mr. W. Millar, who is retiring from the service, with a set of cutlery, and to Mrs. Millar a hand-bag. Mr. Seering H. Matthews died yesterday, aged 85 years. 'He was, states a Press Association message, one of Auckland's earliest pioneers, and was an ardent church worker lor the Baptist Tabernacle. | Mr. A. 2v. Smith, secretary of the Tararua Tramping Club, was last evening presented by members of the club with a camera and stand. The retiring!presiI dent (Mr. W. It. Field, M.P.) said Mr. Smith'was an untiring, resourcefu'. and ever-cheerful member of. the club, and | the token of their appreciation carried the very deepest feelings of the members. The Hon. G. M. Thomson, M.L.C., has been appointed to represent the New Zealand Government at the Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Conference, which is to be held at Honplulu from 31st July until 14th August. The question o"f fishery conservation1 and • exploitation, plant and animal quarantine, and forestry are among the subjects to be discussed at the conference. Mr. Thomson will leave Auckland by the Niagara on Bth"July for Honolulu.

Mr. John Hanna, who died at Roslyn on Tuesday, aged 67 years, was a wellknown and highly respected resident of Dunedin for some 40 years. In his young days Mr. Hanna was a non-commissioned officer in the Life Guards, and passed through a course of training in the gymnasium at Aldershot. He afterwards con- ' ducted gymnastic classes at Home, and in 1884, when he was at Aberdeen, he was appointed gymnasium master at the Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools, in which position he remained until the end of 1913. -In August, 1918, when Mr. Phillips,, who was instructor at the High Schools, had to .leave for the Trentham military camp, Mr. Hanna took his place, and carried out his duties until the following December.

The death, occurred at a private hospital in Wellington last night of Mr. James Earl Read, who was for many years a Public Service employee, and who was also well known for the, work w^hich he carried out in entertaining. Ihe late Mr. Read was born in Wellir.gton in 1869, and was the fourth son of Mr. Micaih Read, one-time governor of The Terrace Gaol. In his younger days the deceased gentleman gained much popularity as an elocutionist and amateur actor. To old Wellingtonians he. would be well known for his porfcavels of Bunthorne in " Patience." and the Lord Chancellor in " lolanthe." At one time he was sta»e manager for the Wellington Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Club, and he-was the founder of the Invercargil] Amateur Operatic Society. As a Public servant ■ie was mainly connected with the Internal Affairs Department. He was in tctested in the affairs of the Masonic' Lodge, being a. Master Mason. In later jears. he led a very retired life, but was always ready to render service for charitable objects. He was a man highly respected by all who knew him. \,,d us deatli will be deeply regretted He leaves two daughters (Mrs. 1 V. Roper 1 England, and Mrs. b. J. Harrison, of Wellington) His wife predeceased him some eleven years