PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 9

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. T. B. Dwan returned from Sydney by the Malieno yesterday. Mr. John Phillips, of Chipman, N.Z.j Ltd., leaves to-day on a business visit to Great Britain and America. Mr. Colin B. Colquhouir, tho Australasian manager of the North Brit>h and Mercantile Insurance Company, Ltd., has arrived in AVellington on a brief visit of inspection to the Dominion. Mr. Robert Hogg, of Wellington, lias been notified by the Scottish Burns Clubs (Glasgow section) of his election as ono of three Honorary Bards. He will require to write a poem for the Burns celebrations to 'be held in • Scotland next August. Mr. H. P. Caughey returned to Auckland by the Aorangi from Vancouver after a seven-months' business trip to the United Kingdom, France, Canada^ and'the United States of America. Mr. E. G. Skeates, Mayor of Birkeiw head, and Mrs. Skeates, who have been spending a six weeks' holiday in Hono* lulu, returned to Auckland by tho Aorangi. ■ -.. ■ Tho Rev. B. C. Crosse, headmaster of Christ's College, Christchurch, returned from a nine months' holiday trip abroad by tho Aorangi. Ho is accompanied by Mrs. Crosse. Mr. D. W. Bay, sales manager.of General Motors N.Z., Ltd., . accompanied by his wife and child, returned to the United States by tho Makurg. yesterday. : .... Dr. J. J. Liddy, of Brisbane) Vrho was for thirteen years superintendent o£ the Mount Morgan Hospital; is a through passenger by tho. Aorangi to' Sydney. He is returning from, three years' research into radium and X-ray practice abroad, having studied at the Curio Institute, Paris; at Lausanne, Switzerland; and in London,and Germany. He visited New Zealand ia 1909 as a member of the Sydney University Rugby football team and was » representative Rugby player .ia . Aus» tralia. , : „ After the satisfaction given to members of the Wellington Cricket Club "by. the selection of F. Kilby in the New Zealand Eugby team for South Africa, it was a matter of great regret and disappointment that this player should have the misfortune to. fracture an. ankle before the tour was well advanced. "Up to that pointl his form had been most admirable,;" i, states the cricket club's report.,,; /'We have BOi doubt we shall yet have the pleasure of seeing Kilby play in a Test match." "We are fortunate,',',said thc^chairman of the Union Bank at' the annual meeting in London, " to-find a worthy, successor to Mr. Chambers- in Mr. William Angus Leitch, who joined the servico of the bank in July, 1892. Mr. Leitch was inspector for New-Zealand from 1923, and became chief inspector in October, 1927. The directors have every confidence that the affairs-of the bank will bo ably and soundly managed by him." Mr. Chambers was -general manager in Melbourne, and on his recent retirement, Mr. Leitch, who was well known in Wellington, succeeded him. , , . The death of Mr, Robert Reid Cameron occurred at his residence, 18, Baden road, Hataitai, on Monday, even* ing. Mr. Cameron was a native'of Scotland, being born at Blantyre in. 1842. He arrived in New Zealand 61,-years-ago, and at first settled in the .South Island, where he engaged with otherearly settlors in farming, coaching, and gold-dredging ventures. He came to.' Wellington 23 years ago and lived in. retirement in Hataitai during the last few years of his life. He is survived • by his widow, four sons, Messrs. E. E. Cameron (Blenheim), H. -Y. Cameron (Marton), J. Y. Cameron (Tauranga), and A. C. Cameron (Masterton), and two daughters, Mesdames G.-.-Marshall (Wellington), and J. K. Wilwm (Heretauuga). . - ....•■ ":