PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1933, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Rev. Dr. J. Gibb goes south tonight to initiate at Knox iCollege tho lectureship recently established by the Presbyterian Church on the Place and function of the Ministry:" Mr. Herbert Webb, ' organist and choirmaster of St. Mary's Church, Hawera, and conductor of the Hawcra Male Choir, who has been on a visit to Wellington, returned; illonie todaj^ Advice has been received from Awn tralia that Mr. E. S. Hylton, secretary; of the Wellington Education Board, huj been elected, a. Fallow of the Australasian Institute of .'Secretaries. Mr. G. Hartshorn, manager of the Wellington branch of the Vacuum. Oil Company, Pty., Ltd., has been transferred to .Auckland as manager of tha company's branch there,- Mr. E. Martin has arrived in Wellington from Auckland to act as manager of the Wellington branch. . - ■. : Messrs. C.* M. Turrell;. and W. H. Prico have- been reappointed members of the Wellington. Harbour Board for a period of two years as representatives of the payers of dues on goods and ships. Congratulations' on theii reappointment were extended to them at last night's meeting of the board by, the chairman (Mr. C. J. B. Norwood).' Sir Cecil Leys and Mr. Edward Anderson arrived this morning by* the Monowai from Auckland; • and will go south, this evening by the Maori. The Rev. Father Innocent Doyle, of Adelaide, left Auckland by tha Niagara for Sydney on his return home. He has been in New Zealand for a year on work connected with the Dominican order. ■Bishop Liston, of Auckland, will attent the opening of the Mar'ist Brothers' novitiate at Claremont, Tiniaru, on Sunday. Tho Rev. Father M. J.O'Neil, priest in charge of the social work of tha Roman Catholic dioceso of Auckland, and the Rev. Father J. J. Kelly, parish priest at Helensville, left by the Niagara for Sydney en routo to Ireland. They will be absent about pis months. . Captain C. M. Renaut, superintendent of mercantile marine at Lyttelton, has returned to Christchurch from a holiday in tho North Island. . Mr. L. J. Schmitt, the New Zealand Trade and Tourist Commissiorier in Sydney, has been, spending a few days ia the Southern Lakes district. ; ' A well-known Auckland resident, Mr. Victor Cornaga, aen., died at Cambridge on. April 12, aged 77 years. His health had been failing: for the past few months. Mr. Cornaga, was bora in Liverpool, England, and came out to New Zealand about fifty-five years.ago, landing at Auckland, where he spent his early years in this country, being married in. Auckland about fortyeight years ago. A well-known business man, Mr. Cornaga left Auckland in 1900, when he purchased the Masonis Hotel. He had maintained an interest in the hotel up to the time of his death. After being in Cambridge a number of years he went back to Auckr land but returned to Cambridge a few months ago. The deceased was an official member of many sporting and kindred bodies, and he was always generous with his assistance. He was also. a very old member of the Druids' Lodge. The late Mr. Cornaga is survived by his widow, three sons (Messrs, V. J. Cornaga,- Wellington, A. E. Cornaga, Cambridge, L. A. Cornaga, Christchurch), and one "daughter (Mrs. E. P. Clatworthy, Auckland). Mr. J. W. McEwan, who has represented the Hutt and Makara counties and suburban boroughs on the Wellington Harbour- Board for the past twenty-five years, announced his retirement from that position at. last" night's meeting of the board. For.a period of two years during his term of service Mr. McEwan was chairman of the board. In a-/farewell speech Mr. MeEwan complimented the board on its general efficiency, and expressed tha hope that nothing would intervene to change the "board's policy. The board, he said, undoubtedly stood high in its relative position with other public bodies of the Dominion. He regretted that Ms term of service had come to an end, but he would always look back with pleasure to the time he had spent as a member of the board. The chairman (Mr. C. J. B. Norwood) depressed the board's appreciation of- tha splendid service performed by Mr. McEwan during his long term of service. It was by men like Mr. McEwan and others- who had carried on the work before .him that a policy had been laid down that meant so much to the board today. That policy, if it was not interfered with, would moan even mora to the users of tho port.in tho future. Among the guests at the Midland Hotel are Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Scott (Chicago), Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Taylor (Dunedin), Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Garnsey (Sydney), Messrs. A.- Churton. (Auckland), S. L. Lazarus (Suva), H. McCoy, G. Weymouth. (Auckland), C. C. O'Connor (Sydney), Henry Atkinson (New York), Allen (Rarotonga)^ and Beaurang (Belgium). Staying at the Hotel St. George ar» Mr and Mrs. W. Dobson, Messrs. ft. Dobson (England), S. A. Sutherland (Dunedin), W. M. Shand,.V. E. Hamilton (Christchurch), B. D. Martia (London), Hugh Thompson, and G. N. Holford (Auckland). Mr. and Mrs. John Bowen (Sydney), Mr. and Mrs. Pederson (New Plymouth); Messrs. C. W. Morey (Stratford), E. Brown, H. B. Duckworth, Joseph A. East (Christchurch), and J. Luff (Dunedin) are staying at tha Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Schmitt (Sydney), Mr. and Mrs. C. Milner (Nelson), Messrs. W. G. Gladding, E. Leese, K. Dickinson, E. A. Aatley (Auckland), J. Beatson (Hastings), Lloyd Hammond (Hunterville), J. D. Hall (Christchurch), C. E. Begg (Dunodin), o. K. Wilson (Pio Pio), and J. H. Jennings (Takaka) are. among the guest at tha Royal Oak Hotel. Viitors to Wellington staying at ■the" Empire Hotel include Messrs. J. Griffin, D. Allan (Auckland), A. Price (Gore), W. P. McArthur (Palmerstoa North), R. T. McLcod (New Plymouth), G. S. Turnbull (Dunedin), F. Muller (Brisbane), H. Bringozue, and H. R. Bringezuo (Wanganm).