PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 76, 31 March 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-EEGAL.

His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Blcdisloo, paid a visit to the Wellington Golf Club's links at Heretaunga on Saturday afternoon, and Her Excellency attended the garden party at the Wellington Boys' College.

Yesterday morning Their Excellencies attended iivine Service at St. Mark's Church, His Excellency reading the lessons. In the evening Lady Bledisloe attended the special concert given in aid of the Chair of Obstetrics Fund.

This morning His Excellency presided at a meeting of the Executive Council at Parliament House.

Their Excellencies will leave by the Limited Express to-night to pay their first official visit to Auckland, and will return to Wellington on Thursday morning. ■

The Visitors' Book at Government House will remain open durftig Their Excellencies' Tisit to Auckland.

The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. P. A. cle la Perrelle, returned to Wellington'last night after making a comprehensive tour of the seenie resorts of the South Island

Mr. M. Dennehy, assistant general manager, New Zealand Eailways, has returned to Wellington from the North.

Mr. G. Anderson, of the staff division, head office, New Zealand Bailways, has returned from the North.

Mr. Thomas M. Copeland, aged 73, died to-day, states a Press Association telegram from Wanganui. He was a well-known athlete and volunteer fire brigadesman in the 'eighties.

A Press Association message from Dunedin reports the death ol' Mr. William Wilkinson, aged S7. For 21 years he was the Government nominee on the Harbour Board. He was a Justice of the Peace and a. provincial Oddfellow.

Mr. Raymond Horton Le Pine, law clerk, of Napier, was to-day admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by his Honour .the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) on the motion of Mr. G. G. Watson.

Mr. P. B. B. representative of the Foreign Office in the Prime Minister's Department, will return to England next month after the expiry of his two years' term of appointment. The question of suecessorship has still to be considered.

A tribute to the memory of tlio late Mr. -Robert Blaekwood, who died recently at the age of 85 years, was paid by the Rev. E. J. Harvie at yesterday morning's service at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Mr. Blaekwood, said Mr. Harvie, hart: been, appointed to the Board of Managers at St. Andrews' in 18S8, and had been inducted to the eldership in 1896. He was a man of splendid character, and his life had been full of service to others.

Mr. E. P. Rishworth, whose death took place on Friday at the age of 60 years, was one of the best known men in Lower Hutt, where he practised his profession as a dentist for many years. Mr. Rishworth's principal public work was in connection with educational matters; he was for many years chairman of the Hutt District . High School committee, and a representative of the Hutt Valley on the Wellington Education Board. Until quite recently'he was chairman of the Hutt Valley High School Board of Governors, and he was instrumental in obtaining from the Government tile site on which the High School stands. In 1919 he unsuccessfully contested the Hutt Parliamentary seat in the interests of the Reform Party. He was Mayor of Lower Hutt in 1920 to 1021, losing the seat after a strenuous contest in which he advocated the establishment of a local gasworks as an alternative to the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas Board. Mr. .Rishworth was a prominent member of the Waiwetu Masonic Lodge, and a member of the Lower Hutt Bowling and Tennis Club. He is survived by his widow and a grown-up family. The funeral, which took place to-day, was attended by. representatives of all the Lower Hutt local bodies, and of the schools in the district.