PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 133, 9 June 1927, Page 13

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Miniiter.of Finance (the Hon. W. D. Stewart) will return ,'to Wellington on Saturday from tho Bay of Islands. ■ ■ ■•-. The Minister of Public Works (the, Hon. K. S. Williams) will return to. Wellington to-morrow from Hamilton. The Minister of Agriculture (tho Hon. O. J. Hawken) returned to Wellington last night, from New Plymouth. The Minister of Education (the Hon. E. A. Wright) left for New Plymouth j to-day. At last night's meeting of tho Wellington. Acclimatisation Society, Mr. L. O. H. Tripp was re-elocted president. Mr,' Gi M'lntosh was elected deputy president. Senor Humberto Bidone, Consul-Gen-eral •., for Argentina in New Zealand, who is leaving on Tuesday for Buenos Aires via Montevideo, was presented by the frait growers of New Zealand at their annual dinner last night with a New_ Zealand rug as a token of their appreciation of his many services infacilitating the export of apples to Argentina. ; It is interesting to recall that Ssnor Bidone, who is the author of several works, wrote a short romance in Spanish to be sold for the benefit of the Wellington Hospital. This has realised some £15, which will be paid over to the Hospital Board shortly. . The death is reported of an old InvereargiU boy whose life since boyhood has been spent in distant parts of the world (reports an exchange). He was Mr. Lionel Joyce, who died lately at Jos, Northern Nigeria, at the early ago of 48 years. Mr. Joyce was a surveyor and mining engineer and was one of a party of nine surveyors who left New Zealand 25 years. ago under engagement with the British Government to go to the Gold Coast Tarkwa. After serving as a Government surveyor for 12 months Mr. Joyce left the service to commence the practice of his profession on his own account, in the pursuit of which he had a varied and most, interesting career. For several years he was engaged as surveyor, mining engij neer, and prospector in Eussia and Siberia, at one time being stationed about 1000 miles south of the trans-Siberian railway towards Mongolia. He later returned to West |friea. Mr. Lionel Joyce was the last, survivor of the nine New Zealand surveyors.