PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Bledisloo have extended their patronage to the Wellington Harmonic Society.

Lieut-.-Coloncl C. E. Hereus, D.S.Q., 0.8. E., of the' New- Zealand Medical Corps, has been awarded tho Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Mr. A. E. Wainwright, of Patca, has been appointed an honorary child welfare 'officer.

Mr. J. Livingstone has been reappointed a member of the Ha wives Bay Land Board.

Mr. A. Wyness has been appointed acting honorary Czecho-Slovak Consul at Wellington. - . . •.

Mr. B. A. Wright, M.P. from Auckland yesterday.

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Many- old residents will regret, to learn of the death at Invercargill yesterday of Mr. Arthur Henry Stock, eldest son of the late Archdeacon Stock. In thu 'eighties Mr. Stock was connected with the Star Boating Club,' Wellington, and was prominent as an oarsman. Ho was also a kceii yachts-

■ Tlic Rev. C. J. H. Dobson, : whoso death at Lisbon was reported in the cabled news yesterday, was educated at Mnrlborough College, where he had a great athletic record (states a Press Association message from Blenheim). Subsequently ho wont to 'St. John's College at Auckland to study for the ministry, and was.ordained in 1913 and left for France as a chaplain with the Main Body. Ho was awarded,the M.C. for gallantry in attending wounded under fire.-He married a Greek lady. Mr. Dobson was 'present in Eonio during Mussolini's entry. He returned to Nc,'»" Zealand in.li)2o, and was.appointed Vicar of Richmond, Nelson, but shortly after returned to Europe, where lie was appointed chaplain to the British Embassy at Lisbon.

Mr. Charles Edmund Galwey, an old resident of Wellington and formerly •well known in the Public Service, died last week. Mr. Gahvey arrived in Nc\v Zealand with his people from the North of Ireland in 1576 and was first employed as an extra clerk in the House qf Representatives. Subsequently, he joined the Public Works Department as a draughtsman and assistant surveyor, being located 'at different times on the West Coast,- in Canterbury, Wanganui, and Taranaki aa well as in theHead Office, Wellington. • In 1889 Mr. Galwey, who held the degree of Associate of tho Institute of Actuaries, London, joined the staff of the Government Insurance .Department and was appointed Chief Computer in the Actuarial Branch of tho Department in 1913. This position he held until 1917, when ho was appointed actuary to the National Provident Fund and Friendly Societies Department. He retired from tho service in 1921. '. For .ft time Mr. Galwey was a vestryman of St. Barnabas' Church, ltoseiioath. In outdoor pursuits ho ..was interested, in golf and bowls. Of a- retiring disposition, the late Mr. Galwey was a man^of. sterling character, wide attainments1, and generous nature, and the esteem in which he was held was evidenced by the number of his friends . and old colleagues who attended the funeral service at St Mark's Church on Monday. The vicar, the Bcv. ;.H. E.. K. Fry, ...and Canon Galwey, of Christ.church,., officiated in the'church,, and Canon :,Garwey, who is a brother lpf the ;dec.ease;d,;at the crematorium, Karori. The. deceased was unmarried, and, in. addition.to the brother referred to, is survived by throe sisters, Mrs. Henry- Smith (late principal of Chilton House School, Wellington), Mrs. H. J. Walker, of Gisborne, and Mrs. Frank Kutherford, of Auckland. ■ .-,.-] . ■ ■■■ .;.. '... .;;..