PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 30 April 1927, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Minister of Agriculture (the lion, U. .), ttuwkeu) iwllt administer the Lands portfolio during the absence In Australia of the Iton. "A. 1). M'lmod. Mr. K. A. .Tames (Dominion secretary of tho I'ollUcnl Kefovm Lortßuo) is eon tin mi to his bod with an attack of. hi tin en nut. Mr, I'Vank Hurley, general malinger of tho Mercantile and General Insurance 00., Lt.il., lo.tt by Ihe Muriunn I'ov Sydney yesterday, Mr, Cyvll W«rO wan a passenger by the Mnorl from the South today, -Regret Is expressed in the numint ro> port of the Mount Cook School Committcoat tho loss by death tluvtn^ the your of Iho late Mr. \\\ Nuut, who was for a niuobor of yonrti ti' valued momlior of tho committee, nnd secretary. Tho death oeeuireil nl Auckland to. day of Mr. Koliovt Whitosido, who in his day wns cmo of the KiiMtoM ihißbv pliiyejtt Now ,Zoiilniid hni> produced, »t»t.c« ti. Prow Association lui'itjtnuo, \n -.ls,Sßj Mr. WhHoxido wns tho ilr«t. <«.holc« fiv, Auv'Uljunl ii|^aUij«t. Btoddnrl's Ihlt- \»\\ toiun, but l\c \vn« Injnrod onrly in tho gdino. | A, .I'toss AsHin'iutloii mi\-i»;ino from | jtfow IMymonllt ntntos Hint Mr. Tii>ul» I Tnimnnn, ngod 1)7, wtvs found dostd tit I his roakletteo )nat. cvo«li»ff. Horn hi Uormttny, the Into Mr. Trumnnn on mo to tho Dominion over lifty yoni'M nao, find wiw n tolmo66«|Hl in I'otouo for mn\a youi'H, tutor com'tuotlnj; h ten morolutnt's bnainosH in Now l^lyinouth. Ho wits n iinturnllsiul Hrllbh subjent, und wns (jrctitly aollulitod when his son wa* dtiooratod whllo sorvtnn with tho Now .Xoitlnnd l!ngluperiu(j Force, Tho (loath ooevirrod in Wulli«Kton last nluht ofi JirlK«tlk>r .tinnos (jlovor, n rotlrod oftkor of tho Snlvntlon Army. Tho Into Urljftulior Olovcr, who hnrl bi'tm liodrlddon -tot »tarn 'yotim, ;|olnod Iho Army In Toronto ntiont forty.four yours npo, licinff ono of Iho plonoor momliorji In Ouuiulti.' Ikforo coming. to New Zoidnnd, «v*r lt>n yours n^o, ho saw norvli<» In jswtx tmd Aunt.rullti. Ho t« survivod by n. widow (Mrs. Urinadier 6lov«v, it wolKkiuiwu- stwlrtl worker in WolliHglon). two sous (Adiutnnt; Leallo Qlovor, of Jiivn, and Mr, Htirry t'llovor, a inimtluu' of tho Wolllngton Oltmlel Htuul), iind ono dattghtrr (Adjulunt, Olowr, nl'tno-hnd to hcndquiirtpiH i»t Wellington). Tlio llov. .Titmos Muwtl, A.T.S., ti welt • known Baptist minlator, returns to Wellington to-day by the Tnmahluo, after i> tuotor tour, in company with his wife, in tho South Island, Mr. Mursoll hus hold important iiastoratos In Knglantl niul Australttt, and liti«, in tho course of several world toum, boeomo ftuulUar. with many lands. He has ajso boon on what, is known as "Iho Keswlok jilntform," lmvlng f«|u>kon nt Hovoral conventions, After n vlolt to N«|ilor, Tiuijio, and .Uotorna, ho will leave .Auckland for Vancouver by tho Aoraiißl on 10th May, Mr. Mursuit will occupy tho pulpits of the H»nt;!«t Ohitrehcs at Brooklyn and Vlvlnn street to-niorrow. At tho Chief 1\>»1 Oillco yoslordny ti. prenontatton wns made to Mr. A. .). jSlchollu, who for the ptint; four yours has lioeii Miporlntiindent of tho Wolllngton money order and savings banlt branch, and i« rothing on Bupiu'nniniation, Tho presentation, which took the form ot! a sot; of stulnfoßs e.utlery, wa« mndo by Mr. U. .Klldeii, AotlnK-Ohlof I'oatmnßtor. Mr. .ll'lldes exproNMcd the appri'diillon of tho executive olHcors of Mr. Nicholls'a native and etHclont, nen-» ylco and eourlesy to tho public. Air. ■'.It. tliunesi on liehnlf of the money order and savings bunk bIivIT, expressed ro> (?rel. at. Mr. Nlchidls's severance wltii the otllcO, ns he had l)een a eauabie coo.trollitiK olllc.ni 1, nlwayH rendy and williu(t to einuiuriiuo nnd iisslst. tho junior olUcets, nnd had taken a live Interest In the ].', nnd *J\ AsHOciatiou, of which he wns one of the oldwt member. Mr, Kli'hotls suitably replied, thanking the stuff for tholr Rood wishes and loyally.