PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 136, 6 December 1932, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Professor Bairiritte-Bnnyn is to leavei for the South to-night. Mr. W._J. Galloway,.-who has 4jeeai on. a business ■visit' to Australia, ieturned to-day by the Marama. Mr,; i l. headmaster _of -Wavtaki Boys' High School, arrived-in" ■Wellington this morning- from the South Island. .. , . .'..■" ........_ . Mr. W. Bethel!, "general manager of the Boyal Arsenal Co-operative Society, Ltd., a large trading concern in Lou-1 don, arrived by the Marama to-day oa a. holiday yi3it to the Dominion^' Mr. Bethell, "who. is accompanied' ~ byv his ■wife, is retiring at the' end of the year after fifty-two years' service."-vs^n" 'the society. He intends to remain, .in -JSTjevi; Zealandfer i 'our-or five .months./'; ■'. , Mr. J. E.lKirk, MJ3.&; : (Gosborne); and Mr. Bruce-Smith arrived to;day; by the- Marama from :Sydney. •■' ■-' ..". Brigadier A.- Greene, M.C.,who recently retired ■ after Sorty. years.?,service in the Salvation Army^'retnrned-.;to Wellington to-day by the' Marama after a visit to New South Wales, "Victoria, and Tasmania. :: -• ■ " • : ■. Mr. X G.-WelJs/who.has been;at'th« head office of rPrevost and Co,-in, Adelaide for the last six months*-. arrived by the Marama to-day.- r,-. -'- -:■ fc". Mr. G.-'.F. Daviß arrived, by.:., thai Marama,from Sydney'tOTday, on a.Busi-ness-visit. . ,\- ; ■'.■.'. " .■'■",'.':!, Father W. E. o?DonneU, of Waipawa, a brother of Mr. C. B. o'Donneli,o£ Wellington, returned by the Marama , to-day from the Eucharistic Congress and a subsequent tour, of Great -Britain, and the Continent. ■He • was accompanied by his sister, Miss E. 0^)01111611. Mr. J. Fletcher, who has :beeh" "on a visit* to Australia, returned to-day; by, the Marama.- ■■•... .-..-:■; ■■:-.; . "■■ "— Sir Berkeley Sheffield and his'sister, Lady Arthur Grosyenor, of London, who have been fishing at Lake Taupoj^returned to Wellington this morning, and are staying at the Midland Hotel/ ';'■ Commander C. G. Tonge, 8.N.R., marine superintendent to the Nyasaland Government, East Africa, and Mrs. Tonge arrived to-day by the Marama from Sydney.. Commander Tonge^ who is retiring early ne?t year, has been stationed in.'Nyasaland for'the 'past seventeen and "a. half .yearsy.'.Afc- .one time he Was on the staff, oifthe New Zealand Shipping Company, anS on thd outbreak of. the war; he left- mth.'ih» Main Body as naval transport officer. He. was sent to Nyasaland. during the war," and was In charge -p'f "the-gun-boats on Lake Nyasa,! whieb: i? '■'■■ : 350 miles long and 50 miles wide,' J-Oom-manderand Mrs. Tonge intend-to make their future home in Wellington^ -.- Sir Walter Stringer, arrifeel.;yesterday from. Auckland, and left-last night for Dunedin.. . ' ' ;' ' Mr. L7'M. lafttAvas ampng.'the passengers this? morning from the South.A welcome' was extended at last evening's ■meeting "■' of the council "Ot. the New Zealand- Amateof Athletic Association to Mr. E; W. Lander, the. recently appointed delegate to "the: council from the Otago Centre.- y- '. -; Sir Alexander Eoberts- was re-elected chairman .and; Miv A." Dv S. Duiiean vice-chairman, at the meeting: of-"the council, of. :the- New' .Zealand!; Golf Assqeiatiofi" last"iight. ■;■ ;Tacaiicieß- on the appeal committe<?' "of rth;«h;<!'6npeil were filled by the election'of ■ Messrs. E. Page and J; H." Draker -. :;•■'• .=•' ■ Eegrefc at the "departure oS:,!Mi." *V. Hugo, representative.of tie West Coast (North Island) Amateur. Athletie-.Cen-tre on the -Council' of the' N;Z.A.A;A'., was expressed at • last- evening 's -meeting of the council. Mr* Hugo is;leaving to -take up- a- position -ia Anckiand. The chairmanV Mr.-B.- -W.:McTiUyj.expressed thexouncil'sappreoiation'of Mr. Hugo Js seryiee^-ttot 6nly: to'ttie Jiouicil, but .tc»;".t'he i ;clu"Bß'.'intK::''^iclL"''lie1-'; had been." associated in. Welliflgtoit^'**T?his work,"- said Mr. -McVilly,. *'has .been. 6£ an enduring character.-V.-Other members spoke of 'the esteem in which Mr. Htfgo was held," and a, fountain' pen ■ and a:pencil were presented to him. •■■■..•.". . The retirement is announced:of-Mr. ,F. G. Matthews, M.8.E., a member" of the - Ministerial secretarial' corps,- who for the/past four years has filled^the position of secretary tb-the-Minister of Jnstice;<the-Hon.; Jv Gi C6bbe).;;.Mr.' Matthews::naß_been thirty-isiiEr^ears -in the Public Service.- He' wa'ssecretary to the late -Mr. Beadoa^the late Sir Joseph Ward,-Sir William: HallJones, Sir James Allen,' aid-the -Hon. W. Bownie Stewart; In 1917-18 ;^M>. Matthews served- with- the Canterbury, .Regiment, and was Collector of- -Customs and Taxes in-Western.-Samoa in 1923. He was" born at Hayelock, Marlborough^ :^nd' was educated at Nelson College; ■■: He-was;-married in -1917t>Str. Matthews jnte"n3s: taking' up fesiaenee at Paraparaumn.s ■■■■■■ - : '/• .' : - -r.- .: _ Staying at the Hotel; St. Georg^iie Messrs. E. d Browne :(Au:ckl;and)i: L. Stevens (Ajucklahd), G.: WJ' Thomson (Dunedin), Major H. Blake-Taylor (London), Mr: J. B. McKenzie (Christchurch), Mr, A; F, Wallis; (Greymouth), Mr. and Mrs. James Fleteher' (Auckland), and Mr. L. W. Alderton (Auckland). , •' '. ■• ~. ,i Visitors to Wellington Tstaying- at tho Empire Hotel. inclnde Messrs. C. G. Dermer (Feilding), E. 8.-.g. Hill (Auckland), Wi.E. Eeynolds ; (Dunedin), H. Hart (Dunedin), ■J. .G. :Jeffery • (Dunedin), T. B. Ferguson (Napier), H.L. Kohlis (Napier), and B. Hill- (Gisborne). ' ■•' : . • ". : --.. Among the guests at ,the -JVCdland Hotel are Messra, E,-' Parsons (-Waitotara), N. W. Parsons (Waitotara)," S. P. Eart (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs; P. G. Payne (London)/ Messrs. S; J. aJrigham (Auckland),-A. J.-.Entrican-^Auck-land), E. V. Taif (Sydney), George P. Davis (Sydney), Oliver' Nicholson' (Auckland), and J. Stanton .: (Auckland), ; ' ;_.r .>/■":■■'.: .' : Messrs. G.Baildon (Aucldand), S. Williams (Melbourne), J. W. ■ Coyne (Christchurch)," the Hon. G..'3T. SmitV (Christehurch), Messrs. A. L. Alexander (Christchurch), Tl Baigent (Nelson), A. Sinclair (Te Awamutu), sfnd Mir. and Mrs. Mirfield (Ne.w: Guinea), are among the guests at the Royal Oak" Hotel. .:---;■-;<■■"".