PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Prime Minister (tho Hon. J. G. Coates) will leave, to-morrow evening for Morrinsville and Hamilton. The Minister of Health (tho Hon. J. A. Young) will leave Wellington on Monday for Palmerston 'North to open. the new maternity ward at the publia hospital. He will then travel to Hamilton. He expects to return to Wellington on Friday. Captain T..T. Hugo, Superintendent of Fire Brigades, returned to Wellington from tlie South this morning. Mr. 11. E. Moller has been elected chairman of the Otago Harbour Board, states a Press Association telegram from Diuiedin. Professor E. Lawson, of Otago University, .accompanied by his wife, arrived in Wellington on the Maheno this morning. Cable advice has been received in Wellington stating that Mr. E. D. * Blundeil, formerly of Wellington, who is now at Trinity Hal!, Cambridge, has been awarded his cricket blue. The Eev. Francis Worley, ' of the China Inland Mission, arrived from Nel- ' son this morning by the Arahura. Ho is expected to remain in Wellington for about a fortnight, and will give lantern lectures and missionary addresses while here. . ' Mr. Charles E. Johnston, at present wool and stock auctioneer for the.Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Associa-. tion, Ltd., Timaru, has been appointed wool manager for the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative .Distributing Company, Limited, which appointment includes the management of the company's AVellington branch. Mr. Johnston is well known as a leading authority in tho wool and stock business, his experience in tho wool trade in both islands extending over 25 years. •' Mr. Charles Slight, a well-known and highly respected resident of Paekakariki, died at his home on Monday night, at the age of 77 years. Ho was a soa of tho late Mr. James Slight, who landed at Porirua with the 65th Regiment in the early 'forties, and who took ah active part in tho many engagements with tho Maoris, in the Porirua, Hutt, -' Pahautanu'i, Wanganui, and Taranaki districts. Mr. Slight, sen., settled in the Rangitikei district, and left a largo family, including Mr. Charles Slight, who served for a number of years in the mounted constabulary and the Pol-' ice Force, and .then resigned to take ■ over tho Paekakariki Hotel. After-, wards he went to Capetown and served with the New Zqalauders in the Boer War. At the close of hostilities he returned to Now Zealand and resided at Paekakariki until the time of his death. Ho was for many years a member of the Loinster Lodge of Freemasons. The death occurred at Tavistock on 11th April of Mr. Henry I)avey, tHe . well-known engineer and founder of the firm of Messrs. Hatborn, Davey, and Co., of Leeds. Ho will chiefly be remembered as tho inventor and maker of the "differential" pumping engine, of which many examples can be seen to-day all over the world. - Mr. Davey designed and carried out the construction 'Of many of the largest pumpirig installations for the Mitsui Company in Japan, for the Waihi Gold Mining Company in New Zealand, and other similar undertakings. Although he re-. ' tired from active practice in 1908, his interest in ■ engineering, never flagged, ' and even in his 84th year ho brought out a new design for a triplo-expansion, rotative pumping ' engine, which he claimed would give ejual efficiency at a ; far less cost than the old design. Mr; Davey'leaves one son, Mr. Norman Davey, the writer.