PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 150, 29 June 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Alfred J. H. Benge has been ap> . pointed a representative of the Education Department on tho Teachers' Ap-..': peal Board. '.■■.'. .'. ' '• ;'..:. .. Mr. P. B. Marshall was admitted this morning as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Ostler, on the motion-of Mr.'J. Prendbville. .'. Mr. George; A. Hart, M.lnst.CE., Wellington, has been appointed a member :■ of the Plumbers' Board of New Zea- ■ land. , . . :. . . ■'■■ . The, College Board of Governors at its meeting yesterday approved of an additional Walter Turnbull Victoria: ,;,; College Scholarship being to. „X, K Thomas Max Pernbert.on, :a recent pupil ;^. of. Wellington. College, and now a stu- ' dent at the University. .'■..' At the annual meeting Of the Par- ■ . liameutary Press Gallery yesterday afternoon, Messrs. T. Lindsay Buick (Press Association) and B. C. G. Wes-.vT; ten ("Evening Post") were re-elected chairman and vice-chairman.resuective-iy.. .; ■' ;..': .■•■■ ,; ■■■ .-. V'"-.-'-;' , -, The following appointments of Jus- ' tices of the Peace are Gazetted: —Percy, A. Cole-.(Carterton), Ernest J. E. Gumming (Khandallah), Gordon Hugh ail (Carterton), Alexander" F. Lowe: (Wellington), William C. M.: Sorensen: (Car-. ' terton). ■' ■'.• . , • •■'•", :: ■ . ... .At the meeting of the Board of.': Health on Wednesday, the chairman (the.Hon.J. A.: Young): saidhe desired^ on be,half of the board, to express to' Mr. C; M; ;Lulce and family, the sincere sympathy of members on tho ..,, death of Mrs. liukfe: : . .. '.'. "V .-.., •"• '„*■' .' A number of members of the; House ';"".: of Eepresontatives were granted leave .- iei of absence yesterday for varying per-;- "* iods. The! Eight Hoiv Sir Joseph Ward-r (Invercargill) ■ has leave for one month- V: on account of health.and other reasons;, „,. Mr. H. L. Tapley. (Dunedin North); and ,;; the Hon. G. J. Anderson (Mataura),.-;-who !are absent abroad, : are-excused ■- on the ground of publie,business and ■■■ ;■' illness respectively} and Mr. T. E. Y. ' Seddon (Westland) has leave for three days on account of sickness ;in his i family. Other absentees aie Sir' Ap- v rana Ngata .(Eastern Maori);..six days, and Mr. T. M.Wilford (Hutt) eighteen days.. ".. .' ".:; •: '• '■• ■■■ ';.• •■; . '-':'' -..,■■■■ .-. The death occurred this, morning, o-s after a long illness of Mr. Edward J.-I ; Hylton, a resident of Wellington ; for".;'■'..■ the past 50 years. ; The late Mr. Hyl- : ton arrived in Wellington from Eng- „.' land in the Shaw,, Savill, and Albion ; Company's ship Pleione inthe year X 1878. He was for many years eonn'ected ..'•< ; '-' with Messrs. Briscoo and Co., from. -„;». which firm he retired about two yeara v," ago. : Mr. Hylton leaves a widow, two,' ;.•.". sons. (Mr.: E.S. Hylton, assistant-secfe- - : <; ■: tary, Wellingtou , Education' Boards ■- and Mr. F.L.: Hylton, of Auckland^), and one-daughter. (Mrs. H. B. Eandal,-. ;V of Wellington); There; are seven grand*-*,'.;' ■children.:.; •••;: ..'. --. \-.\- : \ ;;,;:.'-' '-. ■;: ".*.'."=.-ir Mr. E. W; Lowe, Director .of the ' New Zealand Branch of the AiM.P. So- »■ • ciety, will relinquish his position1 ..to- i. morrow, on account of having.reached:-;i,. the age limit. Mr. Lowe attained"the- ;,,■; unique record of a "diamond'jubilee.',?:-^ as an officer and director of the A.M.P. t;. Society. Mr. John Gavin Duncan;-/so - -;• well-known as &< director and manager-.^v of the firm of Leviii and Co;, Ltd.,: has •'"•• been appointed to a seat on the "local •> board. His father, the late Mr.:.John. v< Duncan, was a local director of the r ,; society from: 1891 to 1916. ;