PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-KEGAL.

The Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe propose to leave to-morrow for a short visit to Eotorua. Their Excellencies will return to Wellington nexfa week.

Mr. H. M. Gordon Clark, principal of the firm of Messrs. Matthew Clark and. Sons, Ltd., London," arrived by the TJlij maroa from Sydney yesterday. The Hutt Biver Board last night passed a motion of sympathy with its exchairman, Mr. W. T. Strand, on the recent loss of his son, Mr. W. C. Strand, at Wairoa. The Dunedin Beturncd Soldiers' Association, at a special meeting last night (states a Press Association nies'sage) appointed Mr. 0. L. ITerens see* rotary o£ the association in successioa to Mr. J. M. White, 'who resigned recently. Mr. Forens was at one timaj on tiic staff of the Dunedin branch,; of the National Bank of Now Zealand' and until recently was connected with, the Wanganui Woollen Company. Dr. C. E. Maguhe, medical superintendent of Auckland Hospital for. twenty years, has been afflicted by]j serious eye trouble, reports a Press As-! sociation message from Auckland. Yesterday he was granted a year's leave, during which ho will visit England. Hospital Board members expressed tha utmost sympathy with Dr. Maguire, and eulogised his services. An acting-super-intendent will be appointed, and th» whole position-will be reviewed in * year. The death occurred yesterday morning at Dunedin of ex-Chief Detective P. Herbert, one of the most resourceful detective officers the Dominion has produced, states the "Post's" correspondent there. Mr. Herbert retired .on super--' annuation in 1917, and spent several years travelling abroad, in America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. After returning to New Zealand he paid a visit to Victoria, where in his young days he was a member of the polica force, and a noted runner and oarsman. He was on his way back to Dunedia from Melbourne in 1929 by the Manuka when that vessel was wrecked at Long Point, near the Nuggets. As a policp officer he was known for his energy, courage, and scrupulous fairness, and he was a participator in many cases of importance. One of the most notable of his early exploits was his part in bringing to book the notorious Minni« Deans, the Southland baby farmer. The death occurred at Wellington yesterday of Mr. Phillip Luscombe Hoilings, at the age of 59 years, ex-Stipen-diary Magistrate and a former Mayor of Masterton. The late Mr. Hollings, who was born in London, came to New Zealand .when a young man and settled in the Wairarapa, where ho was widely, known as a barrister and solicitor. H« took an active interest in local affairs, and was Mayor of Masterton from 1900----03, and again from 1910-12. The former' period embraced three terms of office, as the Mayoral election was held yearly;' then. In 1919 he was appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate, and was stationed at Blenheim, Wellington, Christchureh, and Wanganui. He retired in 1923. Mr. Hollings was the author of a book on the Sales of Goods Act, a work which is recognised as an authority. He loaves a widow and family.