PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-REGAL. Their Excellencies the Governor-Gen-eral and Lady Alice Tergusson, who have been spending Carnival Week in Christchureh, arrived in the ferry steamer from Lyttelton this m^rninp-' and- left immediately fc.r Napiyr, Vdct% they will spend two or three days. Hl3 Excellency will perform the official opening ceremony of the Waikaremoana hydro-eleetrie works on Wednesday, and, accompanied by Her Excellency, will then visit Gisborre, Rotorua, and. Auckland, where he will perform theopening of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, returning to Wellington oa 4th December. ' " : The Prime" Minister (the Right Hon. Sir.Joseph Ward was reported to-day to be much improved in'health. ' The Minister of Lands and Agriculture (the Hon. G. W. Forbes) returned tins morning from Christchureh. Mr. J. Ashtou is visiting Christchurch. . • • - Mr. Ciement May, elocutionist, has been appointed adjudicator for the Napier Competitions in 1930. His Honour Mr. Justice Frazer and Messrs. L. J. Sehmitt and A, h. Monteith, representatives o the employers' and the labour interests 'respectively on the Arbitration, Court, arrived in. V> ellington to-day from the North, and will, leave on Monday • , attend a sitting or tht Arbitration Court at Christchurch. ' Mr. William Hunter Barrett, who died at Mataura last week, was at one ime a resident o; Wellington. He vfaa born m County Donegal seventy-four years ago.-.- He. joined the Irish Constabulary, at Dublin at the age of IS ?nd after two years' service in-that force he ,came to New Zealand and. enlisted, m-, : tUe Dominion Police Force ' S stationed for. various periods afc Wellington, Clyde, Arrowtowi, Queenstown, Invercargill, . Temuka, Annat Lumsden, and finally at Mataura. He retired at Mataura in May, 1924, after torty-flve years' service. Mr. Barrett was associated with many sports bodies at iXlataura, and was also interested in. the peal Horticulture Socifity, and waa president of the Bowling Club for several years. He also maintained a lively interest in Freemasonry, and" was also treasurer of St. SaviourVChurch for a number of years. Eepresenta- ■ nf i he Police Force and the Maf! m/P'\r er" t ere among those who-at-tended Mr Barrett's funeraL Mrs. Barrett survives her- husband, also four daughters and five,sons-Alekames j. Esson (Hastings), W. Stewart (Maa™>. P '-Russell (Mataura)^ W. Smith (Welhngton), and Messrs! William Barrett (Cartorton), Richard (Hawera), Ernest (Auckland), Herbert (Palmer^ ton North), and Noel (Wellington).-