PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Finance (the Et. Hoiu J. G. Coates) and the Minister of Public Works (the. Hon. J. Bitehener) tiro, visiting the Wairarapa* district- today. They will' return to Wellington this evening. ■ . ' . ! Mr. ' R. ; r. Mainland, who : has for; some months been acting-engineer to tho Lower Hutt Borough Council, was last evening appointed borough engineer. Mr. P. C^ Johns, who has been Act-ing-Begistrar of Pensions at Hamiltonj has returned to. Auckland, and his position has been filled by Mr. E. A. Fernandez, of the head office staff, Wellington. The Rev. A. H. Curran, of Hawera, last Thursday celebrated his golden, ■jubilee as a missioner. Thirty-seven years of this period has been devoted to, Methodist Maori Missions. Mr. C. J. Cowan, chairman of the London Board of Directors of the New; Zealand Shipping ' Company, is returning to London by ,the Bangitane on. Thursday. Mr. P. E. Climio arrived in Wellington this morning from tho south. " Dr. Todd, Timaru, was among tha passengers who arrived in Wellington from the south this morning. Mr. G. F. Taylor arrived from Mel-i bourne by the Wanganella' to take up his duties as assistant manager of the Shell Company in New Zealand. Mr. M. H. Watt, Director-General of Health, and Dr. E. A. Shore, Director o« the Hospital Division, returned to Wellington this morning from the Soutli Island. ' . ' ■ ' Mr. Georg3 Harper, chairman of th«[ Christchurch Citizens Belief Association, and Mr. W. W. Scarff, a member, of the association, will attend the con« ference of Belief Organisations throughout the Dominion 'which 'is t» open in. Wellington tomorrow. Lieut-Colonel E. ,H. Northcrofi, D.5.0., V.D., of Auckland, has been, appointed Judgo-Advqeate-General to the New Zealand Military Forces with, the rank of colonel. He succeeds 'Mr. Justice Ee'ed, who has relinquished Tiis appointment as Judge-Advocate-General, a post he had held since the war years. The appointment is also announced o£ Lieut.-Colonel F, L. G. West, V.D., of. Auckland, as Deputy Judge-Advocate-General, a position formerly held byj. Colonel Northcroft. Lieut.-Colonel West has been legal staff officer attached to the Northern Command and, his promotion will necessitate a further appointment. ' The • Judgo-Advocate-Geii-eral deals with legal matters as they; affect the Forces, but his duties principally concern courts.-martial and court*' of inquiry, tho decisions' of which have to bo reviewed by him before being promulgated. "On the motion of the Mayor , (Mr. W. T. Strand) the Lower Hutt Borough! Council last evening passed a motion oC sympathy with the widow of the lata Mr. A. S. Bush, who for seven years was the Lower Hutt Borough Engineer. Mr. Strand said the council had greatly, esteemed tho services of Mr. Bush, who was a strong man of outstanding ability and character. Councillors had not always seen eye to eye with the engineer, but Mr. Bush had always been; a gentleman and had forgotten any differences of opinion. The works, he had carried out in the borough would stand for many generations as" a memorial to his ability. Mr. , Allen Wcllbrock, of Christ;'" church, has been awarded an exhibition! entitling him to a' minimum of twoi years' tuition at the Eoyal College; of Music, London. Mr. Wellbrock is a double L.A.8., having obtained his diploma for the organ in 1930, at the ago of 16 years, and for the piano in 1032, and it .is for the latter performance .that" the exhibition has been awarded. While still a pupil of St. Andrew's College, Christchurch, he* was appointed organist and choirmas* ter of Durham Street Methodisti Church, which position ho at present holds. He was born in Invercargill in 1914, and his mother —neo Miss Dorothy Browning, a, pupil of Mr* Charles Gray—was awarded a similar exhibition in 1910. There-is no pre« vious record in New Zealand of a mother and son, having won ex* hibitions, and, .according to ■Mr. Cachomaille, resident secretary in New Zealand for the Associated Board,,the event is probably unprecedented, in thef British Dominions. ■ Mr; ■ Allen" Wellbrock will leave for London towards! the end of this year. The death is announced by the Press) Association from Gisborne of Mr. James Allen, a Well-known, landscape! gardener, in" his 95th year. r Mr. Allen! was born at PennecuTk, Scotland^ and came to New Zealand in 1874, eet« tling first at Feilding and later living at Auckland and Gisborne. Visitors to Wellington staying at the! Empire Hotel include Mr. and Mrs. T« Scott (Timaru), Messrs. C. Vincentt (Christchurch),. p. < Milne (Perth)i and* K. Eogers (Lovin).. Messrs. A. E. Harding (Dargaville)| S. Alexander (Dannevirke), G. McIvor (Mastcrton), .W. R. Holde^ (Napier), and M. Astly (Dargaville); are staying at the Grand Hotel. Staying at tho Hotel St. George aro Messrs. O. Lawson - and N. H. Tools' (Auckland), J. S. Beinke (Taupo)J J» Macfarlano (Melbourne), Edgar T. Shand, and Ivan H, Penrose (Kokonga), N. S. E. Adamson (London), and L* E. J., Kingscoto (Christchurch). Mr. and Mrs. XJ.'W. Carson (Lori* aon),. Mr; and Mrs. W. A. Thomson} (Kairanga), Messrs. Basil .Thomson (Kairanga), .T.-B.'Mitchell, B. W. W, Eeed (Auckland), O. C. Hannl (MeW bourne), E. Goodbehere (Feilding), C. W. Faust (Sydney); E. H. Thomson! (Nelson), J. H. Atkinson (Christ* church), D. Licne (Invercargill), E. B. Izard (Nelson), and F. Eeynolda (Hawera) aro among the guests at thei Eoyal Oak Hotel. Among tho guests at the Midland Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. Trennan (Syd« ney), Messrs. G. E. Hutchinson (Auck* land), E. F. E. Bcetham (Mastorton)< W. J. Petty (Hastings),, F.. Hutsoijl (London), and G. F. Temple (Sy.dnoy)<