PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 130, 29 November 1926, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon. AY. Downie Stewart) returned yesterday morning from the South.

Sir John Luke, M.P., has returned from the North.

Inspector S: Rawle, of A\ reliington, who is relieving at Gisborne, will return to police headquarters about the middle of December.

The death is reported by a Press Association telegram from Hastings of Alfred Trumble, ex-clerk of the Court at Hawera and Napier.

The death is reported by Mr. Owen Kelly, aged 04, a well-known building contractor in the South (states a Press Association message from Gore).

Mr. T. E. Beaven, of Raurimu, clerk to the Kaitieke County Council, has been appointed clerk to the AVairarapa South County Council, from 38 applicants. Mr. Beaven will take up his duties early in January.

Sir Charles and Lady Todhunter arrived to-day by the Maheno on their way to Christchurch, the original home of Sir Charles. During the last few years Sir Charles has held many importance administrative posts in the Indian Civil Service.

The Rev. Graham H. Balfour, late of First Church, Dunedin, has accepted an appointment as superintendent of practical training at Ormond. College Theological Hall and St. Andrew's Theological Training College, Melbourne. He will also be responsible for the maintenance of the work .of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Carlton.

The death occurred suddenly at 6 o'clock on Sunday night at Invercargill of Monsignor Burke (states a Press Association message). He climbed a hill at Bluff during the afternoon, and on the return to Invercargill complained, of feeling ill, and died before a doctor arrived. Monsignor Burke, who was 70 years old, was one of the best known of the Roman Catholic clergy in New Zealand, and recently returned from a trip to Italy, where the Pope conferred on him the title of monsignor.-

Advice has been received of the death at Montreal (Canada) of William Henry Endell Wanklyn, who for many years had been a conspicuous figure in the racing world of New Zealand (telegraphs "The Post's" Christchurch correspondent). From 1890 to. 1920 the late Mr. Wanklyn was secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Club. He began business life as a bank clerk at Hawera, and then became a commission agent. In 1889 he was appointed secretary of the Egmont Racing Club, and the Canterbury Jockey Club secured his services not long after. He was responsible for the introduction of many reforms in the sport. '