PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. G. G. Stewart, acting commercial manager of the railways, left for Auckland last night, and will be absent fox" a few days. '

■Mr. W. E. Leadley and Mr. B. F. Willcox (secretary) will be the delegates from the Christehurch Returned Soldiers' Association, to the annual conference of the New Zealand U.S.A., to be hold in Wellington on 2£th .June.. The president of the Christehurch 8.5.A., Mr. G. A. Hayden, will attend the conference in his capacity of one of the vice-presidents of the New Zealand E.S.A. ■ ' - ....

Dr. IT. 11. Allan; Botanist at the Plant Research Station, has been invited to attend the fifth Instructional Botanical Congress opening at Otto. . bridge, England, in August, states a. Press Association message from Palinerston North. It is not certain yet whether he will attend. Dr. Allan was elected president of the Botanical Section at a meeting in Brisbane of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Bey. W. TV Currie, of Auckland, who died on Tuesday, was born 67 year* ago ill Coleraine, County Antrini, Ireland, and after flevoting some years to. lousiness, he studied for the ministry, of the Irish Presbyterian Church. His first charge was a*t Ballywa.t, not far from the- place of his birth. Having a brother, Dr. F. W. Currie, of Duaedin, already in New Zealand1, he 'decided to come to. the Dominion, and about 2a years ago took up a, charge at Kaitangata,. Otago.. After: seven or eight' years of. successful service there, ho accepted a call to Mangere and Otahuhu, where he remained until Ms retirement a year ago. He is survived by his widdw, a daughter of Dr. Spreull, of Glasgow, and four eMKLren,. of whom tho eldest is.Dr. J. S. Currie, of Otahuhu. ■ ■ • \> ■

The death took place recently at Gisborne of Mr. William Parkes, of Tolag.> Bay. Mr. Parkes was. born in. the Nelson district nearly 76 years ago, and was. well known at ono time in Pal* merston North, where he took a, lively, interest in the school cadet and volunteer movements. Tho late. Mr. Parkes was, some years ago, a familiar figure at NewNZealand Rifle Association meetings- Tor over twenty years, ho- carried on business as blacksmith. at Tolaga. Bay, until recently, whoa illnealth compelled him. to retire. The iuternient took place at Tolaga Bay. The funeral, which was. a military one, was one of the largest ever held in the district. The late Mr. Parkes is survived by a, widow, a &on, and a daughter. i The Key. W. Allen Ste-vely, M.A., Dip. Ed., of Melbourne,! has accepted, a- call to first Church, Du'ncdin. He is a native of Alexandria, iv the Vale>' of Leven, between Loch liomona and the Clyde. He entered Glasgow University in 1903, and graduated' M.A^ in 1907. After a four years' course iv the '(Tinted lYco Church College, Glasgow, duririg which ho was for some time assistant in.an important suburban, church, he completed his academic training in 1911. At the University and Theological llall he was contemporary, with the Beys. Tulloch Yuillc, A. M. Sfoveuson, and Professor S. P. ILunter. During 1910 Professor Konald Maeintyre, of Sydney, visited Scotland, nnd as tho result of an. address, in. the Glasgow College on the needs of Australia, TuWh Tuille Alexander Stevonsoav and Wi Allen Stevely- came to New South. AVales. Mr. Stevely was settled at Stanmore, Sydney, from, which ho, removed to Albert Park, Melbourne. He went next to Morningtoiij on Port Philip, tho church from which the Bey. Ivorman Webster eaino to Christc.hur.ch. Ha has just left St. George's, East St. Kilda, which, by a. remarkable coincidence is the church from winch tho Rev. Graham Balfour ■ eaine to First Church. ________^^_ — ■ .