PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of ' Internal ;.-Affair* (the Hon. P. A. ae ia Perrelle) return-* ea from the South yesterday morning.;

The Minister of Labour (the Hon., S. G."Smith)-will return to Wellington: this evening from New Plymouth.

Mr. P. J. O 'Began returned from tho West. Coast this.' afternoon.

Mr. A. L. Cropp, Christchurch, was a passenger by tho Makura from. Sydney to-day. - ..--. .■ •■ .: ■" . -.':.'

Mr.E.Philpot-Ci'ow.ther arrived- f rom Christchurch yesterday, and is ..spending a week in .Wellington,.

A Press Association telegram;from' Ashburton states that Sir Wiiiiaui' Nosworthy announces that he: will-not be a. candidate at the forthcoming-election.

Guests at the .Hotel: St.- George-.in-clude Messrs. J, Poley, I-H. Stewart; (Auckland), E. C. Piaker (Melbourne), J. A. Peck, AY A; Gregory, J. Fell (Sydney), J. E. Sullivan (Milwaukee, United States), C. E. Blayney (London), K. G. Fulton (Duneain), ana O. K.-Krcsse (Christchurch). •-. ' :

Messrs. E. Harding (Woodville), I>. : de Lautour, H. J. Dcwc, S. Smith '(Foiled ing), and S. Johnson (Melbourne) are1 among the guests" at the Empire Hotel. Visitors to "Wellington ; staying;at the. Grand Hotel include.Messrs;;.- 'jSf C. Jones (Dunedin), T. S.;Ha.dlow.|Auckland), A. Lane , (Akhburton),; ji.; A.; Smart' (Wanganui), 6. Pettigre%, A. Christensen ..(Pat.e.a), .J, .11, \ "While (Dunedin), and J. Weant (Christchurch). ; . ■ . .. ,:" '."' ; :'■/

Captain .A. Campbell, a. New- Siealanc'er who is attached -to the Highland: Light Infantry. Kegiment, stationed at' Cawnporc,. India, arrived at Wellington' to-day by the Makura from Sydney ou. leayc, accompanied by his -wife: and! child. Captain Campbell was "born iv .Wellington, and after, service in. India; and elsewhere returned herein 1925, and was attached to the Staff. Corps for five years, when he left again for India; His; father as Colonel.-G. 1\ C. Campbell* Auditor-General, and his father-in-law; Mr. J. Marehbanks, general manager fqt, the Wellington Harbour. Board... He will rejoin: his"regim'cn.t. at.ilie e-M ftf October. ■ • ■ . -

■ New Zealand lost .a:remarkable-per-sonality on 6th' June/when ■M&-W&-' liaiii Baucke died at Otprohanga, St tha' I age ofjust^on 84< -Mr. Baucke. hacl'been 'suffering from heart "trouble^ and tha previous week'he hadcollapsed in"' ■th* street, but after treatment appeared ta be lecovering, only -to die suddenly oa! the following Saturday- afternoon. Miv Bancke was of .Moravian .extraction^ and,was.born ia thc.'OKathajiilslands^ the son of "a M6ravian"mission'ary.T?roni; his earliest." years. Ke. took, a keen interest in the M^'oriland'the.,'Mbiiori,and in "the . early, daysf.'acted as. his father's interpreter.. He.had a.remarkable knowledge of Maori li|e r and Jived| for many years in close association with: [the native population, :Of th'e-^"qrth IsI land. His strong,' rugged' physiqua was but.the outer cover for a heart of great tenderness for the Native'race,.and he1 was always active in .championing1.-their rights and in denouncing .the -wrongs from which they.sometimes suffered. Ha I was buried on Tuesday at'Otorphanga.