PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 9 June 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

-- ♦ : Tho Postmaster-General, the Hon. W. Nosworthy, was a passenger on the Mzliciio from Lyttelton last night. Mr. I?. M'Keen, M.P. for Wellingtoa South, is visiting1 Taranaki in the interests of the Labour Party. ; . Sir. 11. E. Leighton was appointed last iiigjifc to represent tlie Hiitt County Council on the Assessment Court. Captain Lewis, marine, superintendent for the Shaw, SavUl Company it Auckland, left for London, id'the Tamtkroa to-day. ... Mr. Guy D. Woodward, of the WA lington staff of .Messrs.- Levin, and Co., Ltd., has been transferred to the Pictoffl branch. . , : ■' ■• ■ The Director-General of Health, Dn. T. H. A.Valintine, arrived in "Wellington on the Maheno this morning. Messrs. L. G. H. Sinclair;' A. It. Cooper, W. B. Gamble," and'E. M. Kelly, were admitted as solicitors of the Supreme Court yesterday by his. Honour Mr. Justice Smith.. '.- . At last night's meeting of the Hutfc County Council,- Councillor -S.. Blackley, was appointed the-council's representative on the, Now. Zealand Counties' Association. Motions of condolence with the relatives of the late' Hon. E. F. Bollard and the lato Mr. J. B. Harcourt, both. of whom were prominent vice-presi-dents of the Wellington branch of the Navy League;- were passed at the annual meeting of the branch last evening. • . ■ ■ ' ■ ■'■■ - The. death occurred at Timaru on Tuesday of Mr. Edward Malcolm Arthur. ' Born in 1874, at Maida Vale, London, deceased was the eldest sou of the late Mr. George Arthur. He was educated at Harrow, and i'rom there went lon to Sandhurst Military College, later entering the South' Wales Borderers as first lieutenant. ' Leaving, the Army, the late.Mr. Arthur came to New Zealand iv 1902, and took up land under the Now Zealand aiid -Australian Land Company, farming at T,he Levels with the late Mr. C. N. OrteJJ. Jle was married in 1906 to E.velyu, daughter of the late Mr.-E. G. Kerr, and she and two children survive him. He • served at Samoa for three years during, the war, and was then invalided home:. The late Mr. Arthur was a cousin of.Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur, the third baronet, and was-heir to the title. Sir George was private . secretary. ■to Lord Kitchener from the time-he became Secretary of-. State for. War. in 1914, and is the official biographer.'of Lord , Kitchener. ''..'. Mr. A. G. Anderson, who for the past four years has been chairman of the Wellington Woolbrokers' Association, was yesterday presented with a handsome • and .well-equipped dressing case from his* follow-nieinbers. ' "Owing to ill-health, Mr. Anderson found it necessary to resign his position' as chairman of the association, also that of Wellington manager of the.New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company. Tho occasion of Ms immediate departure for London, in: the Port Dunedin was seized hy his fellow-brokers to present him with a' mark of their esteem and to bid him God speed. Mr. J. B. Moodio, who made tlie presentation, referred to the admirable way in which Mr. Anderson had discharged the duties of chairman of the Woolbrokers' Association during the past four years. He trusted-that Mr. Anderson's health: would be greatly improved by . the trip and that he would return to resume his place in the wool trade and the association, for ho had earned, the confidence and goodwill of'his fellow-brok-ers and all engaged in.the trade, and. was unremitting in his efiorts to do the best for the wool business..; Mr. Anderson suitably responded.' '