PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume 137, Issue CXI, 10 June 1926, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. A. D. M'Leod (Minister of Lands) will visit Otaki to-morrow to investigate various matters connected with his Department. The Hon. J. A. Young (Minister of Health) returned to Wellington from Hamilton yesterday. His Honour the Chief Justice will leave for Gisborne to-morrow to take the sittings of the Supreme Court there. Mr. W. Michael, leader-writer for the "Dominion," has been appointed to tho position of editor of tho "Wairarapa Age," rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. G. H. Scholefield. Mr. W. Lock,- Mayor of Nelson, visited Wellington to-day to attend the" quarterly meeting of the executive committee of the Municipal Association. Tho death is announced by a Press Association telegram from New Plymouth of Captain Thomas Wilson, an old colonist who was closely identified with the history of Taranaki. _ Captain Wilson was 89 years of age. Mr. L. O. H. Tripp was re-elected president of the Wellington Aelimatisation Society last night, members generally speaking eulogistically of the part he had taken in the aclimatisation and protection of opossums. Mr. E. C. E. Wiffen was elected deputy-chair-man. Mr. A. E. Ford, general manager of the Auckland. Municipal Tramways, left New Zealand on- Tuesday on a visit to America and the United Kingdom to study problems and means of modern passenger transportation. Mr. Ford will visit all the principal cities of the United States arid the Old Country, and will also pay a brief visit to the Continent. The Rev. H. R. Dewsbury, who died at Auckland on Tuesday, was a retired Methodist minister widely known throughout the Dominion. Horn at Stirling, Scotland,-in 1849, and educated there at Allan School, Mr. Dewsbury came to New Zealand in 1863,-and was articled to Messrs. Bury and Mountfort, the well-known ecclesiastical architects. Leaving this profession six years later, he entered the ministry of the Wesleyan Church, undergoing'training with the Rev. A. R. Fitchett (now Dean of Dunedin) and the Rev. Alexander Reid. He soon became a notable preacher and his popularity in the pulpit led- to his being appointed to leading churches'. He was elected to the presidency of the New Zealand Wesleyan Conference in 1891, and was on one occasion secretary of the General Conference of Australasia. Advancing age led to his retirement some years ago. He is survived by Mrs. Dewsbury, daughter of the late Captain Parnall, of Oneliunga.