PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 19, 22 July 1925, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. S. M. Stone (Seatoun) was last evening elected president of the Weilington Bowling Centre.

Among the passengers by the Arawa, en route to Auckland from Home, is the Rev. F, M. Molyneux, Jtesistant-Bishop-designate of Melanesia.

Major-General Mplvill, General Officer Commanding New Zealand Defence Forces, was a passenger by the Maori from LytteFton this morning.

The Hons. J. Barr, R. Moore, M.L.C., A. S. Malcolm, and G. J. Smith, C.8.E., arrived from Lyttelton by the ferry steamer Maori this morning.

Messrs. D. G. Sullivan, J. A. MacPhersou, F. J. Rolleston, J. O'Brien, and J. Bitchener, M.P.'s, returned to Wellington from the South this morning.

_ Mr. J. S. Cummings, of the engineering staff of Petone Railway Workshops, has received promotion to the position of assistant workshops foreman at the Addington Railway Workshops, Christchurch.

Mr. William Reid, who was Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge, 1.0.0. F., from 1877 till a year ago, died to-day, at the age of 80, states a Press Association message from Dunedin. On retiring from the grand secretaryship, he was appointed consulting grand secretary.

The death occurred this mornjnf at Thames of Mr. William M'Cullough, formerly a Legislative Councillor, and proprietor and editor of the Thames "Star" for over 30 years (says a Press Association message). He had been living in retirement for the past five years, and his end, though sudden, was not unexpected.

The appreciated work of Mr. S. Pot ter while in the chair of the Wellington Bowling Centre was mentioned at the annual meating- last night by Mr. B. G. H. Burn. In reply, Mr. Potter said that he deeply appreciated the remarks made, and hoped in the future to again represent the business side of bowling.

Members of the staff of Sargood. Son, and Ewen, Ltd., assembled recently to bid farewell to Mr. A. W. Nicolson, who has been in the firm's employ for the past eighteen years. Mr. Cra'mond expressed the wish that Mr. Nicolson would meet with every success in his new venture. The presentation took the form of a solid silver tea service, an oak hall chiming clock, and a smoker's stand. Mr.. Nicolson leaves early in August to take over the management of Butterworth Bros.' Auckland branch.

Advice was received in Wellington today of the death at Christchurch this morning of Mr, C. H. Opie, a prominent and very •well-known educationist. late Mr. Opie was chairman of the Canterbury Technical College Board of Governors, and had held that position since 1919. He was for very many years a member of the Canterbury Education Board, and of the Canterbury College Board of Governors. Mr. Opie took a prominent part in public affairs, and for two periods was Mayor of New Brighton. About twenty years ago he stood for Parliament, and unsuccessfully contested the Eiccarton seat against the Hon. G. W. Russell. He was a member of an early Council of Education. Mr. Opie leaves a widow and a grown-up -family of two sons and three daughters. One of his sons was Eonald Opie, a New Zealand championship runner, who represented the Dominion at the Festival of Empire Games at Crystal Palace, London, in 1911. He was killed in a motor accident in Christchurch later.

The death occurred at Wanganui on Monday of the Yen. Archdeacon Arthur Towgood, at the ripe age of 84 years. By his death there disappears a. onetime notable figure in file Anglican ministry of New-Zealand, states the "Wanganui Chronicle." He was educated at Sherborne and Oxford, and after a year at Cuddeston was ordained at Exeter Cathedral in June, 1865, by the great Bishop Philpotts. Mr. Towgood's health breaking down shortly afterwards, he left for New Zealand in the Donna Aruta, landing at Nelson in February, 1866. Returning to Nelson after a few months' residence in the North Island, he took duty in the neighbourhood for some eighteen months. After a couple of years in retirement, Mr. Towgood commenced work in the Rangitikei district in November, 1868.. He was the first English clergyman to settle in the district, -where he remained till some fifteen years ago.; He was very highly esteemed by his congregation at St. Stephen's, Marton, and throughout the whole district, as well as in Wanganui,-where he frequently occupied the pulpit at Christ Church. He wa3 made Archdeacon of Wanganui by the late Bishop. Hadfield. The deceased was a man of marked literary ability and had a fine library, but fire destroyed his collection of books and the writings of a life-time. For a. number of years he had lived quietly in Wanganui.