PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

References to the loss Rugby football had sustained by the deaths of Messrs. Walter and Martin Winiata (Horowhenua football stalwarts), Mr. J., McGill, (an ex-president), and Mr. F.1 T. Glasgow, (an ex-All Black) were made at the annual meeting of the Horowhenua Rugby Union. A motion of sympathy with the relatives was passed.

Mr. J. W. Andrews, Mayor of Lower Hutt, was last night presented by Mir. K. Allott, chairman of the Lower Hutt Civic Band, with a morocco-bound, silver-mounted perpetual calendar blotter in appreciatioa of his services to the band.

vMr. 8,._ Darroch is visiting the Wairarapa on Navy League educational business.

Sir Alexander Herdman was a passenger from the south this morning. He is staying at the Midland Hbtel.

Mr. Roy Emile .Jack, of Wanganui, Was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court by Mr. Justice Reed today oh the application of Mr. O. C. Mazengarb. Mr. Jack wai formerly associate to Mr. Justice Smith, and subsequently to Mr. Justice Reed.

Herr £• C. Ramm, Cbnsul-General for Germany in' New Zealand, returned to Wellington this morning from Auckland.

The Rev. A. Pi Campbell, 8.A., min*ister of the Burwbbd . Congregational Church, ,6f Sydney, and president of the Congregational Union of Australia and New Zealand, who has been visit* ing Wellington* is now in Auckland. He will leave for Sydney next weeki

Mr. R. G. Pattinsbn, well-known C&nr terbury tennis player, arrived at Wellington from the south this mornings Hi is on. transfer from Christchuf chu A finalist in the New Zealand singles championship last yeaf, > second on the Canterbury ranking list, and a Wilding Shield player, he is now one of th# leading players of the Dominion.

Sir Charles and Lady Statham returned to Wellington this morning after a brief visit to Christchurch.

Mr. H. G. Livingstone, of Christchurch, arrived by the steamer exprest this morning.

The death since last season of Mr. W. Pawson, a vice-president of th« Wellington Football Association and a. keen supporter of the Petone Club, wai mentioned with regret by Mr. j. J. Roberts, president of the Wellington Football Association, at its annual meeting last night. Mr. Roberts Jre* ferred to the valuable services rendered to' the game by Mr. Pawsoh.

Mr. J. J. Roberts was re-elected pr» sident of the Wellington Football AS" sociation without opposition at the association's annual meeting last night. It was his eleventh successive election to the position, and he received the congratulations of delegates.

The death of the late Colonel O. Mitchell was referred to at a meeting of the National War Funds Council held yesterday. Appreciation was expressed of his services to the council dyer many years, and a motion of sympathy . with his relatives wai passed. Mr. H. K. Smith, accountant of th* Hamilton branch of the Bank of Neyr Zealand, has received notice of his transfer to Australia as accountant at the Sydney office. He is to leave on April 18, and his position in Hamilton is to be filled by Mr. W. R. Cols, accountant at the Dannevirke branch. Mr. W. Hutchens, Mus* Bac. of Christchurch, who is well known throughout the Dominion as a musical adjudicator, has been appointed judga of the vocal and choral sections at th« City of Sydney Eisteddfod in August This will be the second occasion on which Mr. Hutchens has judged at th* eisteddfod, having visited Australia for the purpose in 1934.' The Rev. M. G. Milmine, of Waikaka .Valley, Southland, has been appointed by the Missions Committee of the Presbyterian Church to the charga of Dargaville and will take up hii duties there next month.