PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

♦ Mr. J. Georgetti has been reappointecl to the Wellington; Land Board The Hon. L. M. Isitt, M.L.C.,' arrived in Wellington by the Wahine this morning. , ■ ' Mr. E. Page, S.M., has been appointed chairman of the Otaki District Licensing Committee, vice Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M. Surgeon-Lieutenant C. H. Gould, B.N. (retired) has been appointed a surgeonlieutenant in the, Royal Naval Voluntepr Eeserve (New Zealand Division). Colonel S. S.. Allen, C.M.6., 8.5J0., Administrator of Western Samoa, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Officers' Decoration. ' The Mayor of Wanganui, Mr. W. J. Eodgers, is in Wellington to-day and this evening "will go South by the ferry steamer to attend the Christchurch Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Mr, A. H. Measehger, .Government Publicity: Officer,' accojnpanie,d.. b;y,: Mis. Messenger,. left %.; t.heVM'aung^njij for Sydney lhis: afternoon. Mr. Messenger will visit the main cities of Australia with a view to organising a publicity campaign in that country. He will be 'absent from New Zealand for about four months. A Press Association telegram from Gisborne reports the death of Thomas Sydney Williams, a.pioneer, settler of the East: Coast; He wa's born at the ■ Bay of .Islan.ds.;in;lS4|;.,ahd'! was-'.tlie son- of" Edward"WilUams.'.j.THte-Hy.eiitiV.to the Waiap]i* district;.in,lß9i io -a'ssunie the1 management of , the ''family Restate and settled at Kaharau, near Euatoria. Mr. Williams was closely identified with the development, and settlement on th© Bast Coast, b«ing especially helpful to the Maoris, whom ho encouraged to farm their lands. As the eldest surviving grandson of Archdeacon Henry Williams, he laid the,foundatipiistono of the memorial church.; at Pahia a few years ago. .' : . '-