PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

Lady Alice Fergusson has recovered from her' recent illness and hopes to leave for Wellington to-morrow even ing, telegraphy "The Post's^' Auckland correspondent. " ' , -

The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. J. G. Coates), accompanied by the head of the Prime Minister's Department (Mr.' F. D. Thomson), will return from the North on Wednesday morning. The Minister .of Agriculture (the Hon. O. J. Hawken) returned to Wellington on Saturday night. Sir Frederick Chapman arrived from the South yesterday niorning. His Honour Mr. Justice Alpers has returned to Wellington from Blenheim and Nelson. ■ . Messrs. C. M. Luke, W. Appleton, G. Petherick, ,R. Brown (secretary), and I Dr- D- M. Wilson will leave for Christ'church this evening to represent the Wellington Hospital Board at the annual Hospital Boards Conference. j The Hon. Colonel Murdoch, M.L.C., I of Sydney, who has been on a tour of ! the South Island,- arrived from Picton ' last evening. Colonel Murdoch was in charge of' the whole of the buying for the New South Wales Red Cross Society during the. war. _ Mr. Gordon Short returned to Wellington to-day by the Makura after a world tour, during which he visited tho majority of the leading musical centres. Arrivals by the Makura from Sydney this morning included Sir Amos 'Nelson, Dr. E. Teiehelmann, Captain S. Renny, and Mr. W. J. Queree. The death occurred in Auckland last week of Mr. Frederick Shaw, aged 78, a brother of Mr. Henry Shaw, of Wellington, whose generous gifts of books and manuscripts to the Auckland Library has been greatly appreciated. The family arrived in Auckland in 1559 in the ship Mermaid, telegraphs f'The Post's" Auckland correspondent. The death is announced of Captain R. Ramsay, late harbourmaster at Oamaru, at the age of 74. Captain Ramsay obtained his master mariner's certificate at Glasgow in 1879, and joined the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association in 1890, when Sir Robert Stout was president. Captain Ramsay was born in Scotland on 23rd July, 1853, and joined tlie Union Company on ,12th December, 1884. His first command in this' company was the Brunner, in June, 1895. He left the service of the Union Company on 13th. August, 1896.