PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of; Agriculture (the Hon. A. J. Murdoch) returns., to Wei? lington to-morfow motning from: the North. ■ '■ ' -■•■■■ ■'-.■ ' y. ■-r/i.r.-r.: ..-■:•.■/.• : " The Miiuster ■ 6f i;Eailways (tM: Hon. W. A. Veitch) ivinrfetyrn-to'«Welllflg- ;- ton from Wanganui-this '©Veiling; •'' i The Minister iof Internal Affairs'- (the; Hon. P. A. de la Perrelle) ,^nd; the; Minister of Labour' (the Hon. S. G. Smith), who are visiting Christchur'ch, will return to Wellington to;niorrow. Sir Apirana Ngata, Native.Minister, and Chief-Judge JonflS; N&tiyeL Xaitf. Court, returned to/Welliiig'tori onlSatuf■day from Gisbqrne, "where;they'' atteaid-., ed the funeral" of the M^LHSj C^r-; roll: ■' ■":. ■:, '';'-y- \::,■■:■. ,-; ' :; Appreciation of the. wojk of Mr. G. S Hill, who has cdmpleted jhis;twentieth year as president of, the: Wellington Centre of the ;Boyal Life-saving-So-. eiety, was expressed at the annual meeting of tho society;'.; :M .... .:. The Rev. David Hird^ M.A., a_ wellknown Congregational-minister, diedat a private hospital in AiiCklaM' on Thursday, at the age of 59 years. Mr. Hird came froin'England about twentyfive years ago, going^ to-the ■Trinity Church, Christchurchi During his'; ministry there he was chairman of the Congregational tTnioit of New Zealand. Subsequently he was' called to the Palmerston North Church and from, there entered the Presbyterian Church, removing first to "Sotdf.ua arid then to Opotiki, where he had been stationed for the last ten year's/. -■ ■ ;'■ ': ;. . ■'. ■