PERSONAL HEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1933, Page 9

PERSONAL HEMS

Sir Charles Clifford returned tdj Christehureh. laat.j.night .from .Wellington. ;- "; ■'■••■ •<■'■• - " ■■;/''■■■ ■'* ••''"

Mr. E. A. Anderson, C.M.G., of Injivcrcargill, and Mrs. Anderson, .wha have been touring. thp'North Island,-re-turned to Wellington last evening.

Mr. W. G. Loddcr, chief engineer of the Gear Meat Company, will retire from the service of the company at the end of this month. . • ' .

The Eev. C. E. Eoke was farewelled <at a public meeting at Eaetihi before leaving for the Chatham Islands. Mr. Eoke has been home missionary in the Methodist Church, but resigned to commence undenominational mission work; in the Chathams. Mr. Boke spent two years in tho New Zealand Bible.Training Institute, Auckland, graduating ia 1931. He expects to spend much tim» iu 1 Maori work, and sails from Lyttelton today by the Tees.forWaitangi.lilr. Boko will do Boy Scout . training,' arid Sunday school and Bible class work as well as preaching. The Native population comprises a mixture of tha Maori and Moriori'people, the last pure Moriori having died only a few month* ago; The Ecv. John Aldred preached the first'sermon in the Chatham Group; in 1842.. Like many, other Maori mis* sions, this one, started ninety years ago, languished during the' Maori wtfrs.' Mr. Rpke has no financial.backing from, any, church or organised body, and .will teeeive no salary. '••,■'■' ■ '.

The death of Mr. Bobert (Bob) Park, of Petone, occurred yesterday afternoon,, following an Operation last Friday. The late Mr. Park was well known. in Bugby football circles. He..'once played in the Athletic Club's senior, team, and had been'in representative Maori teams, . including : one • which; visited Australia. He was a prominent figure at .wrestling bouts" in Wellington, and was also keenly interested in music, being the leader of the Maori orchestra, known as tho. "Maori1 Merrymakers," which has given concerts in! various places y in the North Island. The late Mr. Park, wlio turned 34 year's of age on the day of his death, came from. Motueka, and. for about fourteen year* had lived at Petone. He is survived by; his widow, his mother, who lives in. Motueka, two brothers—Mr. H. Park, of Wellington, and Mr. D. Park, of Motueka—and a sister—Mrs-. H. D. Bennett, of Wellington. Mr. Malcolm Lead* better, prominent in athletic circles1 in" Chvistchurcb, is a brother-rin-law of the deceased. Thp interment will take place at the Maori Cemetery, Te Puni' Street,Petone, tomorrow afternoon.

The congregation of the Onehungai Presbyterian Church has;deeided; to yap«vap« proach the Auckland xPfesb'ytory (states an Auckland, message) and urge that the Eight Eev.' P. D. Scott, their mm* ister, and Moderator of the Presby^ terian, Church in New Zealand, should be allowed to continue at Onehunga^ Mr. Scott lias received a call to Kham dallah, Wellington, and in a Btatementi to the congregation he expressed th* view that it was his duty to accept th<* call to Khandallah. *' ' -/

The death occurred recently of aai old identity^' Mr, Bichard' Hill, thej founder of K.■ Hill,and Son, Devonport, Auckland, publishers' representatives. The late vMr^• Hill" came to New Zealand with his family in 1885,. and in' the following yotr- the family went t« Whangarei,r where they resided fot; many years. The~ late Mr. Hill trav^ elled on business through the Dominion; for over thirty years. He was an ardent- worker. ii ; . religious and social spheres, and^particularly; hit connection: with the Temperance' movement. Hii widow, survives him, also three daugh*. ters, Mcsdames. A. E. Musker, Broberg, and' B. H. ■■.< Sheppard, and,-four. sons, Messrs; 3". Law;fence"Kill, of Eoehester, New York; 11. Gladstone Hill, of Christchurch; B. Parker Hill, ami Edgar P. Hill, both of Auckland.