PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association message* from Christchurch' reports the death of Mr. William Frederick M'Lean Buckley, aged 69. For'some;time the\.lat- Mr. Buckley was chairman of the Canterbury Jockey Club, and he was once 3. well-knpivn polo player and breeder.

Reference was made by the Hon. W« Pember Reeves, chairman, at tha National Bank of New Zealand mccti ing in London to. the. death'"of Mr. J. B. Reid, one of the directors of tha bank. "Wo have felt this -unexpected loss all the more," he said, Mbpeauswe had real regard for him as a mam as well as an appreciation of the. valuta the board which his knowledge ofi New Zealand, and especially of ; . its great producing industries, gave him." Lord Hampden filled the vacancy, oa, I tho board caused by the death of' Mr* I Reid.-

Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., who.has! been relieving Magistrate iv Wellington and the Hutt Valley for - the past few months, will, shortly be-leaving th. district consequent upon - the return '.ofl Mr. J. S. Barton, S.M., from" a trip abroad. Yesterday afternoon, at the conclusion of the Petone Magistrate's Court sitting, Mr. W. Hay expressed! to Mr. Woodwa,rd the' thanks of the. Bar for the courtesy And c-_s"ideratio_ he had shown, them, during -bis ternin. the distrietl''V.Mr, _'^ Fin^lay endorsed these . 'remarks'.:''"^turning thanks, Mr. Wo6'dWafd'.';:saiS'..-tiiat' his relations with the Bar iii.HhcVdi-tri.et had always been mostVhapipy, and for, that reason alone he :.was."sorry to'have; to leave.