PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain Euffis, England, 'Messrs, H. Longflen, Sydney, H. Pago, Melbourne, A. S. Drayton, Christehureh, and P. 0. Haigh, of Sydney, are at present staying at the Empire Hotel. Messrs. C. E. Ward, California, and John Tanner, Sydney, .arc staying at the Grand Hotel. • ' " Mr. C. A.-Jeffery, private secretary] to the Prime Minister, who has been with Sir Joseph Ward at Botorua for some months, returned to Wellington, yesterday. ; . '" ■Sir A. F. Bob'erts -was granted loaves of absence from the lAwer Hutt Borough Council meeting last evening to enable him to attend a meeting of the Unemployment Committee. •. .i. .. .Mr. P. C. Brew, formerly lecturer on the Training College staff, Auckland, has taken over his new duties as" viceprincipal of the Wellington Training College, to which position .he was recently appointed. ' '. , . ■ .■. Among the guests at the Midland Hotel at present are Messrs. L. Smith, Auckland, H. A. Lawrence, Auckland, 0. H. Beetham, Masterton, James :Mor« ton, South Africa, P. Young, Timaru, S. Birch all, Auckland, and. W. A. Donald, Auckland. . The Mayor, Mr. G. A. Troup, arrived at Vancouver by the Aorangi on Satur-' day, and will leave on the return journey by the same vessel to-morrow. The Aorangi is due at Auckland on 16th. June. Mr. Troup. jas cabled that his health is being much improved by the voyage. - - . A wireless message was received in. Wellington on Saturday from Lady; Poniare (on board the B:M.S. Makura, en route to San Francisco), stating that Sir Maui Pomare; who is proceeding to . California to recuperate, was getting on very well. • \ ■ . ■ . • ■ The funeral of Mr. Arfflmr Harris, late of the Boyal Naval Division, took place with the full rites .of the Jewish, Church at Karori Cemetery on Sunday. Mr. Harris joined tho division at the age of 16, and was posted ito the Hawke - Battalion. The Hawke, Benbow, and Colling wood Battalions landed on Gallipoli on. the 28th and 29th May, 1915, taking part in the gallant attacks of early June. In one battle: every officer of the Collingwoods- was either killed or wounded, ■ and the remnants of., the battalion were taken out of action by a ■ chief petty, officer. Mr. Harris was wounded, and- after the Gallipoli evacuation he served with the- forces .in. France. At the end of the War he took up a position with the tugs engaged in. ferrying war material across the Chan.-. rieL This ended, he joined the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, and traded to.New Zealand;in the Athenie, coming ashore about eight years ago to join, the staff of the-Wellesley Club, where, by his kindly disposition and: uufailing courtesy, he won. the highest esteem of all the members and of his fellowworkers. Mr. Harris is .survived by st young widow to mourn Ms loss. ,