PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-BEGAL. Yesterday morning .■-Their Excel* leneies attended *'divine-Service at St.; Mark's Church, and in the afternoon^ were present at the Toe H commemora-' tion.servieeheld in the Baptist Church,j Vivian street, the Governor-Generalj conducting the "Ceremony of Light." i This morning His Excellency pre-j sided at a meeting oi" the Exeeutivo! Council. . • Mr. Justice Frazer returned to Well- i ingt-on from the South yesterday morn-* 'UIS- - : .-,,-. Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P. for Avcn,| arrived at Wellington'from the" South.' yesterday morning. :; Mr. H. S. S. Kyle, M.P. for Ricearton, will return South to-night. Mr. T. O. Bishop, secretary of the Coalmine Owners' Association, who hjis been attending coal mining conferences in the South Island, returned to Wellington yesterday morning. In the recent Fiji Legislative Council election, Mr. Allport Barker and* Sir Henry Scott (Southern Division), \ and Sir -Maynard Hedstrom (Eastern ]- Division) were returned:unopposed. Mr. A. Dawson, Chief Postmaster aV. Wanganui, retires to-day on superannu-i ation after 37* years'service in thal Department, states a.Press Association; message. :. - . Mr. G. M. Spence. of Blenheim, presi-, dent of the New Zealand Aero Club,; who has been visiting 'Wellington on j aero club business, returned to the i South Island . by: the Tamahine this I afternoon. ......■'. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, who returned to Wellington ' from Ti--maru on Saturday, leaves oc Wednes-! day morning to preside at a sitting of i the Hawkes .Bay. Adjustment Court-in'; Napier. Later-his-Honour will go! South again to .preside at the quarterly! sessions of the Supreme Court in Christ-' church, O'pening on-16th August. • : Mr-. Joan Napier'Newton, son of the late Mr. John Newton, formerly-head of the firm of Messrs. John Newton and Sons, Kaiwarra, died on Saturday, aged 54 years. Before-.going o'n active Service in the Great War. Mr. Newton was engaged in farming at Ashhurst. On his return after the war, he took- up farming in .the Waikato, and latterly! has resided at Paekakariki. Mr. New--ton is survived by his widow, a son' (Mr. John Newton, of Teni.ata) and a daughter: (Miss Betty Newtbn); Mr.:A. •W. Newton, Wellington, is a brother, and Mrs. Macduff Boyd, Hastings, and. Miss Mary Newton, Wellington, are' sisters. ... "-.-•■- Mr. Andrew Mackenzie, well knowa I in commercial circles in Wellington, j died yesterday at a private hospital. '> The late Mr. Mackenzie was born in! Dunedin in 187*9, and was the son of' the late Mr.: George /Mackenzie, Gov-j ernment Surveyor, and Mrs. J. AEaekenzie, Queenstown.- Educated at Dunedin and at Wellington Boys': College; he was for a number of years with Messrs. Briscoe and Co., and later with Messrs. | Thompson, Bridges, and Co. For thai last twenty-five" years ne was the New' Zealand director^ and, representative- of | Messrs. -Lachlan,, Mackay, and Co. He] was for some years a-member of tho I executive of .the Wellington Chamber; of Commerce, a member of the com-j mittee of management of the Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's. Association, and also an* old and pro-! minent member of the Wellington Sav- ■ age Club. The late Mr. Mackenziewas a cousin of the ■ late Sir Thpniaj; Mackenzie and a nephew of Mr. G. A. Troup. He leaves a widowed irioth'eß "and one son. -.':'. • '; ;

Mr. R. A; Loughnari,. the well-known!. journalist, celebrated his ninety-firsfc j birthday to-day, and was the recipient, of birthday greetings and good wishesj' The son of a Judge of the Indian Lair j Courts, Mr. Loughnan was educated'at! I Stonyhtirst and left England for the! colonies as a young man, being shipwrecked on the Tasmanian coast oh the way. Before coming to New Zealand! in. -18.65, as part-owner of the Mount! Pisa station, Central Otago, Mr. Loughnari was engaged in pastoral pursuits in. New South Wales. For awhile he ! managed the Green Island meat- ■ preserving works, and it was' as a re- '. suit of his contributions to the "Otag» Daily Times" that he was offered ;ia j 1875 the editorship of the. "Lytteltoii | Times," which position he accepted and • retained for. about 14 years. Subse-' quently he edited the " Catholic Times'* in ■-"Wellington, and the '.'New Zealand Times," and afterwards was engaged in editorial writing for the "Sydney, Morning Herald. J' : Duriiig the war period Mr. Loughnan ' was a leader-; writer on the "Xew Zealaud Times;'* his'comments on varipus phases of th» ' campaigns being, an especial feature. | For seven.years from 1907 Mr. Loiigh- [ nan was a member of the liegislatiye i Council. He is the author of a life of ' the late Sir Joseph "Ward.

Among the guests at the Hotel St, George are Mr: A. McKirdy (Dunedin)and Mr. E. J. Willems (Detroit).

Messrs. A. W.. Gardner .( Auckland) j George Bush (Auckland), J. :■ T. Brady (Timaru), E. J. Elliott, (Shanghai), C.-A. MacDonald (Blen--heim), G. MacKenzie" (Wanganui), A,. Donald (Pahiatua), L. J. Coxon (Auck-\ land), T. Layburn (Christchurch), A.', Wills (Christchurch),' F. A. Boacha (Christchurch), W. J. Franklin (Masterton), and Mr. and Mrs. P. Summer (Masterton), are staying at the Grand Hotel; ;

Visitors to Wellington staying at ""thai Empire Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. Byford (Dunedin), Mr. and Mrs. Miller (Invereargiil), Mr. and Mrs. Baxter (2s"apier), Messrs.- J. Colenian (Auckland), G. T. Browne (Auckland.), George Wilson. (New York), arid L. E. Martin, (Auckland). ■ ■. .

Among the guests, .at the Midland; Hotel are Mr. I;. McCartney (Auckland), and Mr. A. C. Wells (Christ* church). ' ..

Mr. and Mrs. Creagh (^vapier)^ Messrs. A. Ball (Havelock North), H. I*.' Markham (Christchureh), C. F. Mil-, lard eWangauui), J. .Millard (Wanganui), H. K. Mackenzie (Auckland)/. X. "WV Dalrymple (Bulls), H. Valder: (Hamilton), and N. Valder (Hamilton)^ are among the guests at the Boyal Oak; Hotel. •■.■■■■ .•.-.-•--.-■■ '■■