PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1932, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. C. Bell is visiting Auckland. '■ Dr. AdaPatterson will leave for thoi •! South to-night. • ':■-..' ■'■' Mr. D. Jones, chairman of the Meat; ■ Board, arrived by the Eangatira from, the South this morning. Dr. L. D. Cohen returned "by the Ean« gatira from the South this morning. Mr. J. S. Stratham has been elected chairman of the Pohangina County; Council for his fourth successive'term.' The Postmaster-General .and-thai Minister of Labour (the" Hon.-A. Ham» ilton) left yesterday for the Gisborno district. He expectstp be absqnVf rom; Welpngton for about "a week.' ■■' '.. Mr. A. G. IV Eoss has. been «lectedi president of the -New Zealand- Utility Poultry ( Club. > -i : ■ ■ v., .-,- ..," -The secretary of • the New Employers' Federation (Mr: rT,'- O. Bishop), roturned- to Wellington from Auckland to-day. - - '■ . t';.'-. •Mr. E. Maxwell, a ' member "of the New Plymouth Harbour Board, hi?"'just i entered «pon his 40th year of -Seryic* : in that capacity. , ../ . . '.'. Messrs.-A. Harding'\(iDargaviile),'M^ i ,V. Pattison (Hawera), J. Purvis (Pal- I merston North), and1 Mr; and Mrs.- E. W. 'Little (Auckland) are- staying- at, '' the Grand Hotel. , ::- .:;.V -Guestg:at the Empire -Hotels inetudi Messrs; L. Daniell (Ashburt'on);- "-r D« Waldea- (Hamilton),- and^ GohsfcabW (Napier). ■-::;- ■• -•■'■■ ■•-,•-. .:■.;-■:.;< ' ; Mr. Oliver' Nicholson, 'of:'.Au.ekterid, chairman of.djteetors; oi. the Batfc: of ,NevV; Zealand, is staying- at: '(&&■'■ Midland Hotel.; ;; ;T;^>^ "Guests at the; Eoyal, OatiHotel tia-clude-Messrs. p. C.-Horfbn (Blenheim >. i l.- Halsted (Duuedin), Hugh Morrisba (Masterton), H. WilUams (Melbourne), E. : J. Entricken, E. Hutter' (Auckland). ' and A. McDonald (Masterton),, , ,: " To-morrow Mr. . Eobert CashniaH,senior; inspector...of weights and measures, will retire from'-tHe service of the Labour Department/ having reached the age r limit. of J55 years.. Mr.. Cash, man entered the Civil Service Trithahe Internal Affairs - Department in-va9o9, and was appointed inspector of weights and measures in. 1914. on the. retirement of the late Captain Hannah.' 1i.1923 the Labour Department, took over the administration of weights and measures and. he was accordingly transferred to that department.- ■ • Mr. . Cashman>-waa one of the first New Zealanders.to-hol4 an inspector of weights and ineasttrei warrant., ;...■,.:;. ; . i...-:-.^.-Messrsl W. Gi-übb' (Sydney),'S.:'W* Gadsdin (Melbourne), H. A.' Gadsdia; (Christchurch), W. O'CaUaghan -(Hawera), and P. van Waveren •(Holland)' are visitors to Wellington at the Hotel St. George. . : .:. ■ ; The death of Captam Harry■ Ashfordi Featherstone, who collapsed suddenly; at Christchurch,on" Tuesday, marks:±ho passing of. a igure' well-known Withe earlj days among those engaged la coastrwise trading of New He was born eighty-two years ago hi Tasmania, ran,;away to sea at, the. age: pt thirteen, and served a long ani arduous apprenticeship on the old' *f.iriii'djaia« mers," working his way up : till' he qualified as,master., He settled 'down, in the New Zealand coastal trade, in ;ihe days when schooners and ketches' caHed at the old Canterbury :port; atJEeathcote. Captain Featherst'orie;; retirect about fifteen years ago, and £05 a.time lived at Kairaki, where, among, other activities he was harbourmaster' at" KaiapqL. He leaves two sons, iliessrs. Charles Featherstone, of Chnstehurch^ and .Harry . Featherstone, of "fiai.apoi,:' and three daughters, Mrs... Gill,. "Mrs. Bartley, and Mrs. J. Martin, : pf Belfa'sbi