PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 9, 11 January 1929, Page 9

PERSONAL MATTERS

•Mr. W. T. Strand .was last.night; reelected chairman of the fiutt Biver Board for the coming year. . Mr. J. Coyle, secretary and superintendent of the Newcastle Hospital Board, left for Sydney by the Uliniaroa. this afternoon. . . .. '._,. . The appointment of Mr. T. B. M'Neil, barrister, as "a , Stipendiary Magistrate, was . published in > the , ''Gazette" last night. ■ ;''■'' " Mr. J. W. Mawson, Director of Hown Planning, returned this morning from the South. Dr. Charles Chilton and Dr; Leonard Cockayne, BVR.S., have been appoiiited members of the Board .of GovernoTS-of . the New Zealand Institute.' ' " Dr. S R. Mitchell Mackay, Chief-MedV cal Beferee-for.the-Workers' Compen'sa--tion Act under the Government of New South Wales, has returned to Sydney.'by; the Ulimaroa. .--' ■'■' ■•' •■■'•■ Mr. E. S. Marks, secretary of thd" Amateur Athletic Union of. Aiisttaliaj and an ex-alderman of Sydney, is on. a visit to New Zealand, and will, .ariive in Wellington to-morrow from- Eotor, rua. ■. .■.-. ' . . Sir Dudley de Chair, Governor of New South Wales, who, ivith Lady; de Chair, is spending a holiday at s!^ka;puna, paid an unofficial;visit on-Wed-nesday to the.naval base at Devonport, where he was the guest of Commodore G. T. C. P.Swabey. ■■:..:■ .: •..:.

The death, has occurred of Mr..'William Henry, Burch, aged. 83? .the..first, manager pi the.-Waihi Goldmining' Company, and' ond of 'the founders -of theThames School .of Mines, - telegraphs - '' The Posts. Auckland correspondent. He subsequently took up farming at Kaipara. . : >;■ The death occurred to-day,, at his i residence, .1, Moana crescent, Kelburn, of Mr. Thomas Florence, an, old and well-respected resident of. the district. The late' Mr. Florence was. 85.years of a^v He.was-a lea.dlight worker :by ■ trade, but for some years past had been living in: retirement. .■; The funeral will be- private.. . . Dr. Johannes Schmidt, chief of the Danish oceanbgraphic mission, with Mr. S. A. Longuet, Danish Consul, paid a formal call upon 1 the Mayor; Mr. G. A. Troup, to-day. The mission's research ship, Dana, "is expected at Wei-.. lington during the-week-end, and the members of the mission, rare to be ae-! corded a civic welcome at midday, on Tuesday. . '.'; ' .' ' Mr. D. G. Ball, LL.B., for the past two years organising teacher-under th.c'Tarari.aki ■ Education' Board,; has ?'■'■ been? appointed "Inspector' of Native' SchooTsi under the.Department of Education.^ Mr. Ball, who is a, native 'of Wanga-' nuiy . served throughout the ; war as a 1 member of the New .Zealand Eifle Brigade. He was twice mentioned in dispatches, and won his commission on the field.. Tinderthe Wellington Education .BosircT he was 'for seven." yeiirs headmaster ,of the Grovetown ■• SchooljMaryborough. He is taking up-Ms 1 re*' sidence in Ayellington immediately;. ■ ■ ■■