PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 15

PERSONAL ITEMS

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[Their/Excellencies"; the .'GovernorGeneral (Lord/Bledisloe) " arid taft.r Bledisloe A are trjb- attend the screening of the British cinematograph film, M.Gopd r Night,: Vienna,??, at, tho i ,Ee-" g'eni Tneatre t6-riiglit.' '^■' " ■'$' '■■>'■'!- , Her Excellency, Lady Bledisloe, was present at the. twenty-third birthday; party' of the; Pioneer/Club; .last;/night. The Chief Justice;' Sir Michael Myers, returned from the. Souths this ;inorning;; - - ;The death, occurred; yesterday, at the ago of 83 years,' of Mr. David. McGrai, the founder o_f tie"; Wellington'firm which bears'his nanic.r The late .Mr. McCrae was born -m/Ayrshire^arid'fir?t came to New Zealand in 1885.; In' 1892 he went .to. Canada, 'ivh'ere, he took a prominent' part'.'iii;>(Saleo[oiiiatt Society, activities, being Qhief.of the Gueiph Society for £ period: spent .-five years in Canada, and then went to South . Africa; .Early;.iar 1899 he returned; to New Zealand,', and in li)10i he opened a.Jmattress' factory Vat; Johnaonville, aiid, in asspciation .Svith 'his; rßons,*lHs continued inactive: business until his iUtiess ' «6niHehited .a' "fortnight -ago. The" late Mr.'ilcCra'c '/jfaa an encTgetic worker for' ttie1" 'Presbyterian Church, and had beeri..;assocTated: witliSt;, Columba Church; ;Jolinsohv.ille, since/ 190 G. l?or sonic time.-' he ~ watf' a senior eldor of this;- church; -In-"addition to. Jiis widow^the^ deceased leaves, five daughters and three sons/, The daughters are MesdamcsV H.--- Johnfeoni: 'Jolmsonville, ,W. Markle,?" JoTinsoii'^iile, "El Boardman, Wellingtony Perry' Martin, Detroit, IT.S.A., arid. W.S tt. 'HumpHriesj' GuelpK, Canada. TheKions are Messrs:;: i)avid, John,: and;Ed^ardfMeGraej: 9f"W6liington. *The interMent'?-Hill^ak«: place "at Karori onVMondayS afternoon. ■'•"■ -..•',■' Vy

Mr. J. Macfarlane-Laing (Masterton) and Mi. A. APorter (Palmcistou North) are'staj'ing at r the Grand \Hotel.

Among the guests at the Midland. Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Norman Heaftn (Auckland), and Mr. H. S. Johnstone (Waimate). Visitors to Wellington staying at thi Empire Hotel include Messrs. E. B. 8. Hill (Auckland), George Wilson (Nes*' York), G. T.,Bnnvue (Auckland), J. Coleman,, (Auckland), E. J., Masters (Cluistchurch), Arthur J. lies (Eotprua), C. Matthews and son (Gisborne), L. E. Martin (Auciland), J. Brown (Mangatoki), and L. Webb (Whangarei). ,

Messrs. G. D. Stitt (Auckland), J. G. Alexander (Dimedin), J. K. Wilson. (Tauniarunui), B. W. Marshall (Marton), A. Bates, (Christchurca), -W. >E. Best (Christchurch^and W. J. Smith (Scotland) are among the guests at the Royal Oak Hotel. . r

Among the guests at the Hotel 'fit. George arc Mr. and Mrs. E. L'.'Kauii (Wellington),, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. BlackweWer (lowei-Hutt), ana Mr. A. H. Muir (Melbourne).