PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 64, 16 March 1934, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., Professor Hight, and Messrs. Morrell and Flowers;, arrived \ from..- the south this morning to attend a committee meeting of the Senate of the New Zealand University. •' .■ Mr.. W. T. Churchward has been appointed Crown. Solicitor at Blenheim in succession to Mr. A. A. Maenab, who has,resigned.:- '.■ ; ■""".-.->■ : \. The Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. C'E. Macmillan) will visit Stratford next week to discuss, with; representatives of local bodies the proposed legislation, dealing with the control of ragwort.- _ ; .-■-:-■ ;: The Nelson Fire Board has been granted authority to borrow up to .■"250 by bank overdraft, the amount to be repaid by.March 31, 1935. Mr; E. JX Duthie, general manage! of the New Zealand Express Company, arrived, from the south this morning. Majar-General W. L. H.: Sinclair-Bur, gess arrived this morning from the south. -. ;■: .. .':•■. -, ; .v. .'-".. :A Press Association .message; ;froir .Levin, reports the death of Mr. Herberf George. Kerslake, one of the best^known provincial.^ journalists .' and . managihg director of.KerslakVand BiUen'Sx■ 'Ltxl.. proprietors .of th« "Levin. Dailj Chronicle' * and the '' Otakr Ma.iL/' -He "was also a director of -the ' 'Manawatu Daily Tiriiesi" Palmerston North. ■ He was- 51'-years of age.- ;-v: V.Mr. A.: H...-B.- Jbiiesj manager 'of: the Bank, of; New South. Wales at Christchurch, who has been appointed assistant : inspector for New Zealand Vwith headquarters at Wellington, was farewelled at an; informal gathering "in Christchui-ch 'on Wednesday evening. The.opportunity was also taken•'to welcome Mr. J. E. Astill, Mr. Jones's"successor in Christehuren. : Mr. Jones was presented >rith'a case of cutlery. Complimentary references were made to Mr, Jones's work in^ Christ church, and Sil Cyril "Ward r who presided, said that all his friends were 'confident that he would _gp- a long way in-'tho- seryic6 of the bank. , ... .'. ... .'.'■'." "A Press- Asso'eiation . message from New Plymouth reports the death at Auckland.' this' jnorning- of Mr. J. S: Connett, aged 64, : chairman o£ ..the Taranaki County", and. a prominent figure in public lif&-in North: Taranaki. Ho was a director p£ -the Farmers' Fertiliser Company,- chairman of. the North Committee of .'..'the Egmont National. Park: Board, president of the Taranaki Local Bodies' Association,- and was prominent in the Taranaki Agril cultural Society's activities, i He ;was chairman of the: Taranaki. Connty foi the last nineteen years. He is soryivea by a .daughter, Mrs.: E. L; Barclay, oi Waitara. -~ The late Mr. Connett's fa-thei was apibneer settler in the Bell' Block District.-, ".-:• " ■■ .- ' ' ■V:"-.r"'-