PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 1 May 1925, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Colonel Allen Bell, M.P. for Bay of Islands, is visiting Wellington.

. Bishop • Cleary, of Auckland, is visiting Wellington.

The annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby. Union last evening decided to send a special vote of thanks by cable to .Mr. C. Wray/the New. Zealand representative in England, for all that he .had done in connection with the tour of the All Black's. ' .

Mr. Harry N. Holmes, who, during his term of office as general secretary of Wellington V.M.C.A., was responsible for the erection of the building in Willis street, arrived from Asutralia per TJli-maro'a-on Wednesday, after a visit to his aged father in Adelaide. During his visit to Wellington he will speak at a New Zealand Club luncheon, of which he was the founder. ■

The death occurred at Nelson on Wednesday evening of Mr. A. J, Redgrave an old resident of that city. His son. the Rev. F. B. Redgrave, of Wellington, is at present on a visit to Pacific Island mission stations by the mission steamer Southern Cross.

Mr S H. Wilson, M.Sc, of the staff of. the Hastings..Technical School has been appointed as assistant analyst in the Government Laboratory. The di to Mr Wilson/thanked him for the inbadge". horned with the school

town. Prior to coming to .Wellineion from Otego he had a varied careerfand m every place he sojourned he made ■ many friends. He was of a very kindly ami genial disposition. In earlier years he took a keen interest in general poU-

! Mr. G. J. E. Bickford, who has been •manager of the Dannevirko branch cf ;ihe Bank of hew Zealand for 29 -years yesterday on superannuation the .occasion^ being markedly, a representa-tive;.-gather,ng oi the business community, who paid eulogistic tributes to Mr Bickford as a banker, and to ills'work as a public man and citizen. A citizens' .presentation is to, be made later.—Press Association