PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-EEGAL.

Last evening the Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe attended the 'concert given "by the Apollo Singers in th» Conceit Chamber of the Town Hall. Yesterday afternoon Her Excellency attended a reception given by the president of the Mothers' Helpers.Society. Among other engagements to-day Their Excellencies were present this morning at the closing ceremony of the Wellington Teachers' Training Collega at Kelburn. To-morrow an afternoon party ■ will be held at Government House, to which a large number of those engaged ia local industries have been invited as -the guests of the Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe. In the evening His Excellency will be present at the annual birthday festival of Toe H, and Her Excellency at the performance of the musical play, "The Belle of New. York." ' _ . On Monday next Their Excellencies will leave Wellington to pay official visits to Fcatherston and ■ Masterton, and will return to Government House next Thursday. ■ '■ Captain T. B. Sewell, who has beea on holidays, rejoins the Marama at Sydney. • . . ■ : Mr. J. G. Brechin, retiring director of Amalgamated Dairies, has beea unanimously re-elected. , . : Mr. E. O.Pago, M.Sc, of Christ-, church, has been elected president of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. :,...■:■■ Messrs. K. H. Lowry (Waipawa), A. H. Anthony, B. B. Walker, and C. N. .Fraser (Christchurch), G. Benson (Dunedin), M. S. Anderson (Eoto'rua), and C. Milner (Nelson)-are. guests at the Hotel St. George. . . Mr. G. Baildon, Mayor of Auckland, who attended a meeting of the Municipal Association yesterday, returned to Auckland last night. Mr. F. S. E. Knight has been appointed clerk of the Wellington and Hutt Licensing Committees. • Mr. W. Penseler, German Consul at Wellington, will proceed to.. Berlin oa home leave in January nest. A United Press Association cablefram from Suva states that Mr. Alport Barker has been elected Mayor. . Mr. Barker is proprietor of the- "Fiji Times." : /-. ,■. .' .. - , Mr. A. H. Anthony, managing director in New Zealand for Nash' Motors, Ltd., returns to Christchureh by the Wahine this evening. ' , Mr. F. L. Harrison, of Sims, Cooper^ and Co., Christehurehj goes South by; the Wahine this evening. The Bight Bey. Henry Newton, Bishop of New Guinea, who arrived at Wellington by the Botorua last. Treek from Southampton, was a passenger oa the Marama for Sydney "to-day. Mr. E. G. Hatton,' Director of. the Imperial Bureau of Fruit Production, and of the East Maling Eesearch Station, and Dr. G. H. Cunningham, mycologist at the Plant Eesearch' Station, Palmerston North, returned to Wellington yesterday from Christchureh. Mr. Hatton is proceeding to Australia this afternoon by the Marama. Messrs. Herbert Hill,- E. H. Hill, G. E. Mair, F. Marshall, S. Teal, F. B. Clark, J. B. Clark, C. J. Ferrier, H. Galbraith, G. Anderson, P.- H. Brown, O. Sornmer, J. Leonard, E.:Milnes, A. Smith, S. Warb.uxton, Max Enuzli, W. Dawson,. J. A. Parker,. A.. G-Copeland, K. Fulton, F. Ayent, J. Wilks,' and T. M. Henderson, woolbuyers, are staying at the 'Hotel St. George. - < The death of Mr. Alexander Fraser, reported yesterday, leaves:: Mr. Frank Moyle the only Gabriel's Gully pioneer left in the Lawrence district. After.the diggings, Mr. Fraser settled to farming at Forsyth, four or five miles on the Wetherstones,, side' of Lawrence.. In his retirement he lived quietljf at. Lawrence, near the hospital. In" his active days ho was a member of the Tuapeka County Council and the Lawrence Borough Council. . Mr. L. J. Watkin, art master at the Teachers' Training College, was farewelled by all the students prior to the closing ceremony to-day. On .behalf of the students, Mr.: F. Cormack, retiring president of the Students' Association, presented Mr. Watkin with a-col-lection of art material, and afterlre had expressed his thanks for the: gift Mr. Watkin was chaired round the hall. Eegret at Mr. Watkin's retirement was also expressed by Mr. 'T.< . Forsytlt (chairman of the Wellington. Education" Board), in his opening remarks, and His Excellency; Lord Bledisloe ~ expressed the hope that after leaving'the college Mr. Watkin would' find som« useful occupation in the national interest which would at the same time b« thoroughly congenial to himself. The sudden death occurred at Nelson yesterday morning of Mr., John W. Brown, of Wake-field quay. He was the second son of the late Mr. Alexander Brown, of the Anchor Company, and is survived by a widow and a grownup family of four daughters, the Misses Brown (2), Mrs. ,W. Thompson, and Mrs. L. W. Field. Mr. Brown served his apprenticeship in the Anchor Foundry and then went Home to obtain, further experience at Glasgow. "When the Union Company's liner Moana steamed out from Home the late Mr/ Brown was second engineer, and coni tinued to servo- on this steamer, which; ran for some years in the Sydney-Sail; Francisco service. After leaving the" Moana he returned to the Anchor Com-' pany's service and was chief engineer; for several years before proceeding -to-, the Clyde 5n 1902 to superintend the construction of the steamer Alexander,, the first built by the Anchor Companyat Home. He returned to New Zealand" in December, 1903, as chief engineer of the Alexander, and continued in that capacity for some considerable timei. whilst she ran on the. New Zealand; coast. Mr. Brown was again .sent ta s the. Clyde in 1908 to superintend th», construction of the steamers Waimea,; Nikau, and Kaitoa, which all arrived at. Nelson during the following year. Mr..' Brown on this occasion came out . a?, chief engineer of the Kaitoa, and on. arrival here was transferred to the; Waimea as. chief engineer, continuing: in that vessel until his retirement from the sea to take. up. a. shore position.^ in tho Anchor Foundry. As a mark of. respect tho flags at the company?s of-, fieo and shipping at Nelson were, at-half-mast yesterday..' "■■"•'