PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 9

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Prime Minister (tho Bight Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) returned from the South Island yesterday morning.

Mr. 11. Temple White left this morning for Wauganui.

Mr. Isaac Brown, . tho well-known Hokitika cycle dealer, died on Good Friday morning, aged 6S years, states a Press Association telegram.

Mr. Victor Salck, of Auckland, is visiting Wellington, and is at the Royal Oak Hotel. .

Major W. G. Stevens, Eoyal New Zealand Artillery, who recently returned to the Dominion after completing a lour of instruction in England, has been appointed Officer Commanding, Boyal New Zealand Artillery, at tho Central Command, Palmerston North.

Mr. D. G. Wyles, radio engineer for the National Electrical Company, baa resigned his position- to accept an appointment as' radio engineer and sales promotion manager at Melbourne for Philips.. Lamps.. (Australasia), Ltd. Mr. W-ylcs will leave for Sydney on Friday next.

A handsome-clock was presented to Mr. F. Witeombe, of the engineer's department of the Public Hospital, who is about to' retire after niuc years' service. Mr. M'Curdy, who made the presentation,' congratulated tho recipient on the fine spirit he .had shown during his employment at the Hospital.

The death has occurred of Mr. Frederick'Wilkinson, grand secretary of the 1.0.0. F., states a Duncdin Press Association message. On his return from the biennial session at Nelson Mr. Wilkinson was seized with illness, and succumbed after an operation.

The Hon. D. Drummond, New 1 South Wales Minister of Education, intends leaving. Sydney on sth April for Wellington on.a holiday tour. He will take advantage of his visit to investigate the New Zealand system of dealing with delinquent youth, and hopes to inspect the Borstal Institution at Invereargill. The Hon. H. Atmore,.Minister of Education, will receive the visitor on arrival, and make arrangements to provide all, tho information required regarding the work of the child welfare branch of the Education Department and the Children 's Court system.

The following tribute to an American well-wisher of New Zealand, and of the Manawatu in particular, appears in the annual report- of the Manawatu and West Coast A. and P. Association: "Your committee deeply regrets having to record the passing of an exceedingly popular and staunch friend of the association in tho Hon. David Forrest Wilber, sometime Consul-General for the United States' of America in New Zealand. The late Mr. Wilbcr, life patron and honorary life member, took our association to his heart from the first time he visited the show soon after his arrival here, and during his term of office he missed only one show through absence in America. His presentation of the handsome and valuable Wilber Cup for group of Friesian cattle ensures a remembrance of him for many long years. Though, living in retirement in his ov-n country, he retained his interest, which he marked by an annual donation of 100 dollars. Tho late Mr. Wilbcr was a large-hearted and generous man, and his passing is mourned by all who knew him, both in and out of the association."