PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 34, 8 August 1925, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Major-General Melvill, General Officer Commanding New Zealand Defence Forces, arrived in Wellington this morning by the ferry steamer from Lyttelton.

The Rev. E. C. Crosse, headmaster of Christ's College, accompanied by. .Mrs. Crosse, arrived from the South this morning.

A passenger by the Moeraki, which left Sydney for Wellington yesterday, is Mr. F. G. Wood, assistant Australasian manager of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine.

Mr. T. D. Burnett (Temuka) has been granted five days' leave of absence from the House of Representatives on account of ill-health.

The death of Mr. George William Stahton .Wells occurred' at his residence, Wakapuaka, on Thursday (state* the Nelson correspondent of "The Post"). Mr. Wells was the son of early settlers, and was born at 88 Valley in 1858. He took up land at Waikawa Bay, French Pass, in 1873, and lived there till he came to Nelson in 1916. Deceased was brother-in-law and close friend of the late Mr. Wallace Webber, and together they were intimately associated with the early days of the French Pass settlement. The late Mr. :Wells was a man of high character and greatly esteemed by all who knew him. fie leaves a wife and five children.