PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 6, 9 January 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hoji. \V. Downie Stewart retnrnf from Temuka to-morrow morning. ' The Hon. T. S. Weston, M.L.C., re. turned from the North on Saturday. Sir James Allen arrived in Wellington from the South yesterday morning* Dr. W. G. Ivcns, who has been passing through New Zealand on his way, from the Solomon Islands to Melbourne, left Wellington on Saturday night by the Mauuka for Australia. The Minister of Health (the Hon. J. A. Young) returned tt>-day from the Waikato, where he has been spending the holidays. The Minister of Lands (the Hon. A. D. M'Leod) arrived to-day from the Wairarapa district. To-morrow afternoon he will leave for Whangarei to attend functions in connection with the Jubilee of the Whangarei County Council. He will then proceed to Dargaville, where he will meet the Prime Minister and discuss with him land settlement and local difficulties. The Director-General of Agriculture (Dr. C. J. Reakes) will leave England on 14th January for South Africa. After a visit to various agricultural centres and institutes there, he will continue his journey to Now Zealand, via Australia, and he is due at Wellington at the end of February. Admiral Sir James Fergusson, brother of the Governor-General, accompanied by Lady Fergusson and family, left Auckland on Saturday for the Bay of Islands, wliere the Admiral -.rill do some deep-sea fishing. Later, Sir James will leave for the South Island for troutfishing. He will return to England ia April. . • \ > The Rev. W. A. Hay, of Durham Street Methodist Church, Christchurch, who, on account of a serious breakdown in health, left a few days ago for a prolonged rest in West Australia, was entertained prior to his departure by a number qf^the Methodist ministers of the city. The Rev. S. Lawry, on their behalf, presented Mr. Hay with a ■wallet of notes. Mr. E. N. Green (Nelson) who was for two years in the power house of the Wellington City Council, part of the time as shift engineer, has been. travelling and gaining further professional experience during the past twa years, reports "The Post's" London, correspondent. He has lately arrived in England from Mexico, where ho was for some time working with the Compagnie Pomoles at Mouteray, a very important mining and refining organisation.' In Mexico Mr. Green had a variety of useful experience. He has also done a considerable amount of sea. travel, taking posts as marine engineer. This week he left for Greenock, to join, as third engineer, the new vessel Kalingo, which has been built for Australia, to be employed, specially in the timber trade between Australia and New Zealand. The Kalingo, after leaving the Clyde, will be loading at Mid- | dlesbrough during the next few ■weeks.