PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 50, 27 August 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-RE(JAt>-,'

At 11 a.m. yesterday the Speaker of the House of Representatives, accompanied by representatives of each of the political parties, waited upon tho Govonior-Geueral at Government -Housa and pVcscuted to His Excellency thq Addi'csS'iii-Kcply. " < Last evening His Excellency'was'present at the Wellington.' "Philosophical Society's mooting, when a lecture was delivered by Mr. T. Kigg, M.Sc; 6t tha Cawthron Institute, v on the ".Volcanic Soils of tho Central North Island" Teiritory and Their Agricultural TTtilisation." This afternoon the Gorernor-Genoral, accompanied by Lady Bledisloe^ will open tho Wellington Winfcef -Shqw, Sir James Guusou Is leaving thi« evening for the South. Sir James Allen will bo <l passenger this evening for the Sonth. • Dr. Coleridge Farr, of Christchurch, is returning by the ferry steamer this evening. The Hon. G. J. and Mrs. Smith, Chrislehurch,' are guests at the Royal Oak Hotel. Visitors to Wellington staying at tlig Grand Hotel include Messrs. A. Belshaw, C. Wyatt (Auckland), J. Frew, S. T. Newton (Christehureh), M, Mitchell, F. Hollo-way (Invercargill), A. .F. Salmon (Gisbornc), T. A, Bier (Sydney), G. West (Christehureh), E. "Harvey, % J. Smith, and L. K. Siddell (Bahia. tua). Guests at,the Royal Oak-Hotel in.« elude Mr. and Mrs. K. L, Bodlingtoa (Malaya), Messrs. J. .Chanson (Auckland), 13. Avei'ill (Hastings), J. W, Burtenshaw, R. J. Lyon, G. Valentino (Christehuroh), E.. E. Shaw-' (Dannevirke), J. H. Burnett (Wanganui), H. Morrison (Mastertou), and R, K. Ireland (Oamaru). , r Messrs. J. Knight (FeildingV J. 0. O'Reilly (Ireland), S. Cray (Te Kuiti), G. S. Gordon (Wanganni), J. M. James (Masterton), J: W. Luxford- (Hamilton), W. E. Reynolds (Dunediri),-D. J. Ross (North Otago), A. EL Hodge (Patea), B. B. Eussell (Norffc 'Auckland) are among the guests at tho Empire Hotel. Mr. A. F. Miller, who died it Brooklyn on 22nd August after & short illness, was for thirty-sis years. ia tha employ of the well known English printing firm of Billing and Son~. He came to Wellingto) 18 years ago and entered thq printing establishment of. Messrs, Whitcombo and Tombs, where, he remained to the time of his death. Ha was a true craftsman and was. highly esteemed by the principals of the firm and the staff .alike..for hiscompetence, his sterling char'aetefi and.iuidly disposition. Mr. Miller was fer ejxteca years a member and" esteemed .officei; of the Brooklyn Baptist, J3huiclv Thß, funeral, which took place on Monday, was preceded by a service in the "church* which was largely' attended. The obsequies were conducted by the Rev. E. N* Goring, assisted by the'R^v. Wi S, Bollings. The pall-bearers yfere. the church officers and two representatives' from Messrs. Whitcoinbe and Tombiir Tha lato Mr. Miller is survived, by » widow, two daughters (Mesdames.R. 4nd F. Pamplin), and two sons (Messrs. Percy Miller, of England, and L,.!1, Miller, oij Auckland. ■.'"'"''''. Tr' [ The death occurred at Dunedin yesterday, says a Press Association message, of. the Rev. Daniel Dutto%.in hid eighty-fourth year., Mr. -Button, irho was born at Briery, Staffordshire, in 1848, was ordained a minister of tha Primitive Methodist Ohuieh in 1872. Ha arrived in New Zealand in 1977, his first charge being afc Auckland, whera he remained for eighteen months,- being then transferred to Wellington;-ivhera he stayed for three;years.; His l«sti charge in the Prinutiv© • Methodisb Church was at Invercarjjili,- where ha was stationed for four years.''He'w«e*d« mitted to the Presbyterian' Church, aiid tho whole, of .'his subsequent ministry was in Otago and"Southland.': HC'actecl as chaplain to the New Zealand';rorccs \n the South African'War,-'and when the Great War broke put. volunteered for service as chaplain and went into camp with the Otago men, but the chaplains 1 committee decided that th<i condition of his health-was too uncertain to justify him facing thY hardships of active service. " On' the lishment of the camp at Trfentham ha was appointed chaplain in t 'residenco there, and at the closi? of his militaTjl; service ho returned to his-"..parish (Caversham) for four years,\finally retiring after 48 years in the ministry,----32 of which he had given to the Pres^ bytevian Church, A wife nnd oai*j daughter a*e left, * ..„ - " T. '.