PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 15

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. Gordon Kndlaj- arrived in Wellington this morning from the south. Mr. A. Harris, M.P.,'Was among the passengers who arrived Jhis morning from the south. Mr. H. T. Aiistad returned lo Wellington from tlic south this morning. Dr. Highfc Jeft Wellington last evening for tho south. ' Mi". C. J. B. Norwood returned to Wellington this morning from the South Island. . - ■ Mr. T. 0. Bishop, secretary of tlie New Zealand Employers' Federation, lias returned from Auckland. Mr, F. T. M. Kissel -was among tho passengers for the south last evening. He will arrive back in Wellington on Wednesday morning. Mr. A. O. Heany, secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, has returned to Wellington after visiting chambers of commerce, in the Korth Island. Mr. Rupert de la Bere has. been, appointed an additional representative of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association on tho International Lawn Tennis Federation. ! ! The resignation of Mr. A. C. Reiiner, Town Clerk of Upper Hutt, was accepted by the Upper Hutt Borough Cpuncil, meeting as the finance committee, at the conclusion of its ordinary meeting last night. Mr. James • MeNie, a, member o£ the staff of Messrs. Gordon and Goteh, Wellington, died suddenly ■on Thursday ovening. The late Mr. McNie, who was in his fifty-sixth year, was much in-terested-in several branches of sport, particularly in swimming. He was the Wellington Centre's local officer, on the New Zealand Amateur Swimming; Association, and was for years associated with the Wellington branch of tho Royal New Zealand Life-saving Association. Some years ago he was connected with the administration of the affairs of amateur boxing, the harriers, and miniature rifle shooting. The late Mr. McNie loaves a, widow and a son and daughter. An old and. highly-respected resident of Palmcrston North, Mr. 1\ Aisher, passed away at the Palinerston North Hospital on Thursday evening in his seventy-seventh year, after a long illness. The late Mr. Aisher was born at Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, and came to Wellington as a young man. He went to Palmerston North, in 1888, and was a former tnomber of- the Palmcrston North. Borough. Council and a Justice of the Peace, and served as charitable ai«l officer for a number of years, retiring in 1930, Mr. Aisher is survived by,his sister, Mrs. J. Donovan (Wellington) and a brother, Mr. J. Aisher ,' (Petone), also three sons, Messrs. F. W.- Aisher (Palmerston North), P. B. Aisher (Wellington), H. J. Aisher (Auckland), and four daughters, Mrs. W. r. O'Donnell (Auckland), Mrs. G. ; H. Sceats (Napier), Sister M. Imelda (Convent of Meicy, Wellington), and-Mrs. J. E. McLennan (W-ellington). Ono son, Mr. 3T. J. Aisher, was killed at Passchendaele during the Great War. Visitors to Wellington staying at the Empire Hotel include Messrs. I. E. Sewell (Christchurch), L. Bagley (Dunedin)j N. A. Walters (Palmerston North), and W. Collier (Wanganui),