PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 5, 7 January 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-BEGAL.

His Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Charles rergusspn), is to be farewelled by the commercial community of, Wellington, at a luncheon to bo given, by the Chamber of Commerce, on 24th January.' ■ •■-■•■■ :

The Prime Minister (the Eight Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) was visited at;, Heretaunga yesterday by His Excellency, the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson). ■ ... The Minister of Education (the Hon. H. Atmore) returns from Nelson tomorrow. . • .

The Minister of Labour (the, Hon. W. A. Veit.ch) will arrive in..Wellington by the New Plymouth express this evening. •' ■■ ' -' •■• -■•■■•■■■'■ ■" x Mr. E; D. Blundell arrived fromSydnel by the Uliinaroa this, morning.

Mr. W. .W. Byan has> been .appointed to the board of directors of tho Atlantic Union Oil Company. ;

Mr. j. T. Grose, general manager of the National Bank of New Zealand,'who has been visiting London on bank business, is a passenger by the :iiew. jnotorship Rangitane,: due at Wellington oa 24th January. ..' ■..'■■■• :/J

The Eev. Lionel B. Fletcher,:.minister of the Beresford Street Congregational Church, Auckland,-who--was recently offered the position ofi general secretary of the Christian Endeavour Union of Great Britain, has decided to decline the offer. He will make a tour of the United States! Canada, and Great; Britain next-year, and will then return to his present charge. ■ '■'■' -■•

Mr. Harold Hunter, a Tetired farmer, has just died at Danneyirke;r :He .was a cousin of Sir George Hunter1 .'and leaves a widow (a daughter of the late Mr. JohnMaysmor, of Wellington-),'anft three daughters, Misses 'Mavis-. Olga, and Joan- Hunter. } ; • ;•■•■

Mr. F. Wood, assistant Australasian, manager for Canadian National Kailways and Canadian National^; Steamships, accompanied by Mrs. Woodland Miss M: Wood, returned to Wellington, by the Port Dunedin from Sydney today after an extensive tour of ..Canada and the Continent. . ' . . .. .."f

The death occurred yesterday a$ his residence in Seaioun of Mr. Benjamin. Frobury Gardiner, J.P., afcthe age of. 61. The deceased had been, jn business in Wellington for over thirty. ,years. He was an office-bearer and, trustee of the Taranaki Street Methodist-Church, being associated besides withi a number of social, organisations. By.-his l '-death the Seatoun Bowling Club has lost one strong supporter, and he held -the office of vice-president of the club. .The.Jata Mr. Gardiner had a number of, who, together with a widow, and-, one son, will niourn his loss.-, -V. . .■- *