PERSONAL MATTERS
The Key. Father Bourke is leaving for the South by the Wahine to-night. The Hon. G. M. Thomson, MJj.O, arrived by the Wahine from the South this morning. Messrs. J. Bitchener, E. P. Lee, T. D. Burnett, T. E. Y. Seddon, and H. Armstrong, M.P.'s, and the Hon. J. Barr, M.L.C., are leaving for the • South to-night by the Wahine. Judge Stringer, accompanied by Mrs. Stringer, is leaving for Christehurch tonight. Mr. C. AT. Tringham is leaving for the South by the Wahine to-night. Mr. 11. Atmore is leaving for Nelson, to-night. Captain Chudley, Marine Superintendent of the Shaw, Snvill, and Albion Company, is leaving for Lyttelton tonight. The Commissioner of Polico (Mr. W. B. M'Uveney) left for Christchurch on Wednesday. Ho will return to Wellington at the end of the week. Mr. F. B. Anyon.was to-day admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Smith, oh the motion. of Mr. M. F. Luekie. The re-appointment to the Legislative Council of the Hon. W. W. Snodgrasa (Nelson) and Hon. W. H. M'lntyre (Millerton) is notified in th« "Gazette" issued last evening. Mr. J. F. Montague, of Auckland, the well-known' adjudicator in elocution, arrived from the South yesterday, and will leave for the North this evening. Mr. G. A. Maddisou, Mayor of Hastings and president of the New Zealand Rugby Union, has gone to the South Island for the Rugby football Tests between New South Wales and New Zealand. The election of Alexander M. Kobertson as producers' representative on the Fruit-export Control Board for the Hawkes Bay-Wellington provincial districts is announced in the "Gazette." Mr. Thomas C. Brash's election for the Canterbury, Nelson, and Marlborotigh districts is also gazetted. The annual report of the Wellington Cricket Association'states that Messrs. J. S. Hanna and A. Doneghue were appointed to fill the vacancies on the Management Committee caused by the resignations of Messrs. C. Drmnmond and A. Eonaldson. Appreciation is expressed of the services rendered by the retiring members. Mri Alex. P. Smith, managing director of James Smith, Ltd., who is returning from a trip to England and tho Continent, is a passenger by the E.M.S. Aorangi, due at Auckland on Sunday; afternoon. Mrs. A. P. Smith, accompanied by Mr. J. G. Smith, will leave by the Limited express to-night to meet him. Tho Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, at one time Minister of Trade and Customs in, one of tho late Mr, Massey's early Cabinets, 1912. to 1915, is to be married to-morrow in England. Mr. Fisher is a director of the Imperial Commercial Association, and although 51 years old still takes a prominent part in big tennis in Great Britain. He was previously married to a New Zealand lady, but is divorced. . ■ . . Reference- is made in the annual' report of the Wellington Cricket Association to the deaths of two life members of the association, Messrs. 0. A. Knapp and I. Hyams. Mr. Knapp was the chairman at the meeting on Friday, the 22nd October, 1875, when the Wellington Cricket Association was formed, and also was the first treasurer. Mr. Knapp was one of the first representative Wellington players. Bight through the years he took a great interest ia the playing of cricket in Wellington, and helped considerably in its development. Mr. I. Hyams was an honorary; treasurer of the association for many years, and handled the moneys which passed through his hands with great care. He was also a painstaking scorer, acting in that capacity for representative matches over a long period.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 51, 7 September 1928, Page 11
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586PERSONAL MATTERS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 51, 7 September 1928, Page 11
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