PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 65, 17 March 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

m The Minister of Public Works (the Hon. K. S. Williams) will leave for the North to-morrow night. Ho will be absent from Wellington, for some time. The Minister of Labour (the Hon. G. J. Anderson) and Mrs. Anderson will leave by the Mataroa to-morrow for England. Mr. H. t. Caughcy, Auckland, is leaving by the llataroa to-morrow for England. :'; .."';.'!.'' ■•■ *"?./'' Mr. W. j. Stevens left by last night's Limited express for Botorua, Te Aroha, and Auckland. Mr. and Mrs. Alee Morgan have left by the Marama on an extended visit to Australia. . . ....'' Sir. Francis Colchester.-Wemyss and Lieut.-Colonel E. M. dv Pre, the English croquet players' who have been visiting the Dominion,.will leave the Mataroa to-morrow-morning. Sir Thomas ; MacKenzie,-M.L.0., and Sir William Hall-Jones, ..M.L.C., -will bo passengers by the Mataroa, leaving for England to-morrow. Mr. and 'Mrs. F. A. Hellaby, of Auckland, are booked for England- by the Mataroa, which is to leave, to-morrow morning. .... The. death has' occurred at Christchurch of Mr. L. A. Stringer, aged '58, registrar of Canterbury College, states a Press Association .telegram. > Mr. B. J. Brett,-of" Auckland, left yesterday by the Marama for Sydney, en route to England; where he intends to live. '• ■'„-'•. - ' ■-Mr. T. W. Bh'odeSjM.Pl for Thames, and Mr. W. D. Lysnar, M.P. for Gisborne, aro at present in Wellington. A Press Association cablegram from Sydney this afternoon announces the death of Mr. 0. E. Snowball, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, aged 68. Mr. Ay Williams (president of the Canterbury Justices-Association), and Mr. J. Busaell Brunt (Begisfrar) passed through Wellington, en route to Auckland, where the annual conference of the 'Federation of Justices of the Peace Association will meet oh Wednesday next. -....' ; . The Mayor of Wellington (Mr. G. A. Troup), Councillor H. D. Bennett, the Mayor of Lower Hutt v(Mr. W. T. Strand),- and the Mayor of: Eetone (Mr: D. M'Kenzie) have returned,, from the Municipal Conference at.Nelson.. . ' ':. Mention was made. in- last night 'a "Post" that the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup) had resigned ■ fJoin the presk dency of the Boys' Institute, but those connected with the institute wish to make it clear that'hisßetirement is merely temporary, and. for the duration of Mr.-Troup's term as Mayor of tlfe; city. '■■ :. •:."-, • =;.■'■ '" ■"■■■■•■ '