PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 10 August 1925, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir KennetK Douglas was a passenger from the South yesterday morning by the Wahine. Sir Joseph Kinsey arrived in Wellington yesterday morning by the ferry steamer from Lyttelton. His Honour tho Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) will return from Palmerston North this evening. The Prime Minister (the Hon. J. G. Coates) visited Eketahuna on Saturday afternoon to open, the Makakahi Bridge. After receiving deputations (says a Pres3 Association message from Masterton), Mr. Coates returned to Wellington by special train. * His- Honour Mr. . Justice Alperg left {"a- New Plymouth this morning. His Honour Mr. Justice Hosking arrived from the North on Saturday night. The Hon. 6. M. Thomson, M.L.C., returned to Wellington yesterday by tße Wahine from Lyttelton. Mr. Jonathan Holden, of Dannevirke, is at present on a visit to Wellington. Mr. Culford Bell returned from Auckland to-day. Mr. G. A. Kennedy, Secretary and Deputy-Commissioner of the Government | Insurance Department, has retired on superannuation..

The death is announced from Christchurch of Mr; Robert Macartney, aged 60, a well-known Tai Tapu farmer. He contested the Lyttelton seat as a Reformer in 1922.

Mr. W; T. Thane, a resident of Wellington for over fifty years, died this morning at his residence, 54, Thompson street. For many years he was in the Treasury, but he left the service in order to take up permanent religious work in Wellington. His only surviving son, Mr. B. Thane, is manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Pongaroa.

The many friends of Mr. Adolf Szenes, who was well known in Wellington as a teacher of the violin, and who left here about three years ago to visit his people in Budapest^ Hungary, will regret to hear of his sudden death at Budapest on sth May last. The decease^ gentleman was expected to return to Wellington shortly, and take up his profession.

Mr. J. V. M'Clintic, who is accompanying the American fleet during its extensive tour of the Pacific, is a member for Oklahoma in the Congress of the United States. He was formerly a travelling salesman and merchant and has also had a good deal to do with local bodies, of which he has.a great experience. Congressman M'Clintic was City Clerk for Snyder, Oklahoma, and later clerk to the Kiowa County Council, in the State of Oklahoma. Afterwards he served both as member ana Senator in his State's House of Hepresentatives. In 1915 he was returned to Congress for the Seventh Oklahoma District. Mr. iM'Clintic is, in addition, a Mason, an Oddfellow, and a staunch member of the Christian Church.

The recent death of Mr. Alfred Knocks, of Otakif removes one of the oldest settlers of the district, who in th« earlier days played a prominent part as Native agent in land negotiation* and settlement between Maori and pakeha. Ho was the eldest son-of the late Mr. J. A. Knocks, formerly Clerk of' the Court at Otaki, and in later years of retirement devoted himself to a study of Maori music .and customs, in which he was an authority. He had an extraordinary gift for the training of btrdß and animals, and the feats performed by his sheep dogs and flock of tame pigeons were also" a ■surprise to the visitor. He was a native of Otaki, and died in his 74th year.