PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 92, 19 April 1930, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

.Advice has been received, of the death at Oainaru of Mr. 0. R. Wise, formerly a prominent racehorse owner. Professor T. G. R. Blunt, Professor of Modern Languages at Canterbury College, who is about to. leave on a/six months'- tour abroad, was entertained on; Wednesday by tUe students pf German and French. . . Mr. John Astiton, of Duuedin, had a seizure while attending the annual conference of the Spiritualist Church of Now Zealand in Wellington yesterday, morning, and died a few minutes later. Tho deceased was 52 .years of age, aud was a nio.st active member of the church. ' . . .-■■■■ ■'..'■ Mr. Arthur Grix, who died at Auckland ' yesterday, was a native of this city and was educated' at Wellington College. ' For a long period he was connected with the well-known firm of Bannatyne and Hunter, of this city, and for the last few years was one. of .the departmental heads of tho New Zealand Drug Co., Auckland. During his residence here ho was 'connected with St.-.Peter's Church Choir,.and was .also a.mmber of the Orphans' Club Orchestra. Ho loaves a-widow, son and daugh-; te-r. . .. ' ■ - .'■.■■-' At tho quarterly meeting- of the Thorndon Methodist Circuit, on Tues-. day evening, special reference was made by the chairman (the Rev. E. D. PatchetO to the death of an old ' and highly-esteemed resident of sThorndon, Mr. James Bellamy Haddon, who passed away last week at the ago of 76 years. Mr. Haddon arrived in Wellington 54 years ago; and with his parents took up his residence in Thorndon. living there up to the time.of his death. Ho immediately joined the old Sydney Street. Primitive Methodist Church, and proved a loyal and' faithful member and trustee for over half a century. For forty-seven and • a-half years he was actively associated with Sunday. School work, most of which time he was superintendent of the Sydney Street, Sunday School, and when union of the Methodist Churches was consummated he occupied . a,' similar position at the Moleswdrth Street Sunday School until about three years ago, when failing health necessitated'his retirement, although until the last he retained a kindly interest in tho work. For.thirtyfour years he conducted, on his own account, an undenominational Sunday School at Kilmister's Avenue, near the Botanical Gardens. Ho was for many years a delegate to the Wellington Sunday School Union, and frequently attended the Easter Conventions. For a considerable period he was a vice-pre-sident: of the Diamond Football Association Club. On' Sunday, evening last; at the Thorndon Methodist Church, the Rev. E. D. Patchett conducted a memorial service, at which a large congregation assembled , .