PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 5, 6 July 1928, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. A party from Government House, including Lady Alice Fergusson and Mrs. Haviland, left Otaki to-day for Kapiti, accompanied by Mr. W. H. Fieia, M.P., states a Press Association telegram from Otaki. Tho party is to return on Monday. ■■;'. •■ Mr. A. T. Donnelly, Crown Prosecutor, of Christchurch, left to-day by the Marama for a combined business -and holiday trip to Sydney. Mr. A. M. Mowlem, S.M., has beon appointed chairman of tho Licensing Committee for the. districts of Napier, Hawkes Bay, and Waipawa..in place of Mr. 11. A. Young, S.M. . . .. Captain G. M. S\ Brueo, who is attached to an English regiment in India and who has been in the Dominion for the past three years under the exchange system, is leaving by the Marama today for Sydney, eh route to India. The Eev. L. A. Day, of Gore,, has accepted a call to the Whangarei Baptist Church, to succeed the. Eev. H. Knowles Kempton. Mr. Day hopes to commence his work at Whangarei in September. Dr. G. M. Scott, who for some years has been assistant superintendent at the Pukeora Sanatorium, Waipukurau, is retiring and will reside at Epsom, Auckland. Dr. Scott was a member of the No. 1 Medical Board during the war, and subsequently was- in charge of the Cambridge Sanatorium until it was closed. ■ , - "' , The New Zealand Rhodes scholars, Messrs. C. A. Sharp and J. PlattsMills, who left by the Marama for Sydney this afternoon, were farewelleel by a large party of personal friends and relations. On arriving in Australia they will join a Home liner and proceed to England via the -.-, Suez Canal. ■ ■'.:'■ After 40 years'' service in the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr.. J. V. Lawes, postmaster at ■ the Wellesley street office, has retired on. superannuation, telegraphs- "The Post's?' Auckland correspondent. Mr. Lawes is at present on six months' leave of. absence. He joined the Department on the. West Coast, being- -in the telegraph branch during his early service. He was stationed at Greymputh, and was later transferred to Christehurch and Wellington; He has ..been postmaster at Otahuhu, Onehunga, arid Wellesley street, being in the latter position for three years. - - ■■■'■'