PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 13 September 1928, Page 13

PERSONAL MATTERS

General Young returned to Welling* ton from the South this morning. Mr. B. W. Tate, S.M., of New Ply. mouth, is at present on a visit to Wellington. Mr. E. J. Parr, chief inspector of secondary schools, left to-day for Dannevirke and Hawkcs Bay districts. Mr. Clement May, left by the Wa» hino last evening for Dunedin, where ho is to judge in the elocutionary section of the competitions. Mr. G. Craig, Comptroller of Customs, was congratulated by a resolution adopted by the Victoria College Council last evening upon his having been recommended for the degree of doctor of laws of the New Zealand University. The Rev. J. W. Kemp, of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle, who recently received a call to go to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has decided to remain in New Zealand. At a meeting of the council of tho Wellington Chamber of Commerce it ivas decided to request Mr. Sydney Jacobs, a past councillor and now resident in London, to act upon the council of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire as the representative of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. A Press Association message announces that Dr. M. M. Hoekin, now assistant-superintendent of the Waikato Hospital, lias been appointed superintendent in place of Dr. G. W. Gower, resigned. There were eight applicants for the position. The Rev. Hector N. M'Lean, Ph.D., a minister of the United Church of Canada, was welcomed as a visitor at Tuesday's meeting of the ChristI church Presbytery. Dr. M'Lean addressed the Presbytery, and was appointed to the charge of New Brighton. Mr. B. S. James, of the Post and Telegraph Department, who is about to be transferred to Christchureh, was tendered a farewell at a social gathering by members of the Eastern Hutt School Committee, and their wives, oa Tuesday. On behalf of the committeo Mr. W. V. Dyer, chairman, presented Mr. James with a copy of Shelley'a poems.. Other speakers were Mr. A. J. Gearing, chairman of the Bouleott School Committee, and Mr. A. M'Baih, headmaster of the Eastern Hutt School. Mr. T. Simson, general manager of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, who has been on a six months' tour abroad, returned by the Marama from Sydney. Mr. Simson, who was accompanied by his wife, visited the United States, England, and the Continent, including Italy and Switzerland. Mr. Henry Clayton Brewer, for manyyears Registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland and secretary of the Auckland Law Society, died at his residence, Mount Eden road, on Monday, aged 78. Mr. Brewer's parents were among the first European residents of the Bay of Islands, leaving that district in consequence of Hone Heke's wars. His father, Mr. Charles Babbington Brewer, was one of the Commissioners appointed by tho Government to report on the Wairau massacre, and later he was appointed a Judge of the County Court at Geelong. Mr. Brewer was born in Tasmania in 1850, and spent tho first eighteen years of his life in Tasmania and Victoria. In 1868, he was appointed secretary to his uncle, Mr. Justice Chapman, at Dunedin, and in 1872 was admitted as a barrister and solicitoi* of the Supreme Court. In 1875 he became Clerk in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Oamaru. He later became Clerk of the Magistrate's Court, Dunodin, and was then appointed receiver of gold revenue at Naseby. In 1879, Mr. Brewer was appointed Deputy-Re-gistrar and Deputy-Sheriff at Dunedin, which position he held until June, 1881, when he became Registrar at Auckland. He was also Registrar and Marshal of the Colonial Court of Admiralty ■ at Auckland. He retired in 1903 owing to ill-health, and, after practising for a period, became secretary of the Auckland District Law Society. He relinquished the latter position about five years ago. Mr. Brewer's first wife died forty-two years ago. His second wifa survives him. '.'..'