PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1934, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mi1, T. 11, Easd'own,-manager of the National Bank of }few Zealand, Auckland, is visiting /Wellington.

Mr... Leo (In Chateau lins been appointed adjudicator for the Wanganiu Drama League Festival to be held oil September 18 and IP.

Mr.-N. S. Falla, managing director of the Unioii Steam Ship Company, who. nas been on a business visit to Australia, will return to \Velliiigton oa Monday by the Makura from Sydney.

Tho death occurred at Hanmer Springs, reports ,a Press Association message from * Christchurch, of Mr. John Kennedy, aged CO, for many years Mayor of G-eruldino and connected with, several public bodies in South Canterbury, lie took a keen interest in various sports, and was president. of. tiio 'New Zealand Country .Racing .Clubs' Conference last your, and at the time of his. death was secretary of the New Zea-. land Athletic and 'Cycling Union.

•Mr. J. C..-Ifurrant, who lists retired from the -Union- -Steam, Ship Company after 47 years;' service,- was, yesterday the recipient of a'presentation on behalf of the .company" staff. Mr.'Farraut relinquished'^ His" position, .yesterday.

.-■A P^ress .Association message from. ChristehuYeh reports the death at the age of 68 years of Mr. H. T. H. Grave, a well-known fire insurance adjuster in variou^ parts of the Dominion. For a time-lie was chief, inspector for the Standard Insurance Co.,1 and1 he also held positions at Now Plymouth and, at Auckland. He was,a prominent member of the Baptist Church, and the first secretary of the New Zealand Biblo Training Institute.

Mr.'|S; Cory' Wright' has returned to Wellington from Auckland.

Mr, W. Goodfellon-, managing dji-ee* lov of Amalgamates Dairies, Ltd., Mr. W. Dynrs Fulton, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Co-operative. Dairy Company, Ltd., and Mr. C. J. Parian^ general'manager of the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., will leave Auckland by the Niagara on Tuesday to attend a. meeting of Dairies'at (Sydney. They will return by; tho same vessel on September 17.

A high English ecclesiastical office lias been attained "by a former New Zealandcr, the Rev. Arthur Selwyn Bean, who has been appointed Archdeacon of Manchester. Mr. Bean, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beau, of Christclmreh, was lately appointed Canon Residentiary ot Manchester Cathedral, and -will be installed in both offices on September 20. Mr. Bean was curate of Rugby from 1,910 to 1917, and. was then successively vicar of Wrea Green, of Wcaste, and from 1927 of tho important parish of Astley, Manchester. He received an Oxford M.A. degree in. 1913 ami a B.D. degree of tho University of Manchester in 1931.

Father Stephen O'Callaghan. has been elected Superior General of St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society at tlio General Chapter of the society at Mill Hill, in succession to Bishop Bicnaans, who has retired on account of his health. Tho appointment is for a period of ten years. Father O'Callaghan was born in Cork,42 years ago. After his ordination in 1913 he came to tho Maori Mission in Now Zealand, and remained for nearly 20 years.