PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 61, 9 September 1941, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICEREGAL. ; Government House, Wellington, September 8. This afternoon his Excellency the Governor-General, attended by Captain H. G. Helmore, visited the Lewisham Hospital. Later, his Excellency received MajorGeneral E. Puttick. Miss/Nancy Wilson has left Government House. .. September 9." This morning: his : . the Governor-General, attended by Captain C. J. Holland-Martin, visited a factory engaged in the manufacture of clothing for the Armed Forces. Mr. A. W. Duncan, immediate past qhairman of the Wellington Cricket Association, did not seek re-election to office at the association's annual meeting last night. He has been succeeded as chairman by Mr. J. D. Howitt, who was appointed at a meeting of the newly-elected committee held at the conclusion of the annual meeting. Messrs. A. Ronaldson (deputy chairman) and P. P. Henley (with the Forces), with Mr. Duncan, were not candidates for re-election to the committee. Reference to the loss to cricket by the deaths of Messrs. W. A. Gate, A. Dalgleish, J. S. Hiddleston, R. Steele, E. P. Bunny, T. Murray, J. C. Burns,! and F. Hdldsworth was made by the president (Mr M. F. Luckie) at the annual meeting of the Wellington CricKet Association last night. Special mention was made also of the deaths on j active service of two well-known players, C. Wareham and J. B. Stephenson. Delegates stood in silence as a mark of respect. , Sergeant G. M. Amner, R.N.Z.A.F., of Napier, who has been serving with! the R.A.F. in England, Malta, and j Egypt for the past 16 months, and who recently returned to New Zealand, is now visiting Wellington. Mr. A. G. McClure, of, Wellington, left Auckland fc~ Sydney by the Monterey on Saturday. Professor Julius Stone, professor of law at Auckland University College, J left Auckland for Sydney by the Men-j terey on Saturday. J Flying Officer H. S. Lusk, a son Of Mr. J, B. Lusk, of St. Andrew's Road, ] Epsom, has been appointed senior control officer at an R.A.F. station at Anglesey, Wales, with the rank of flight lieutenant. Mr. R. L. Macalister, a member of the Wellington Beautifying Society, is the society's official nominee for the Loder Cup. The cup is open for competition annually to the whole of New Zealand, both organisations and individuals, and isf awarded for the most meritorious act during the year, or for work which has culminated in the year in furthering the' sentiments of the donor —to encourage the protection and cultivation 'of the flora of the Dominion. Mr. Macalister, in work outside the scope of the society, has done much beautifying in the Marlborough Sounds district.

Mr. A. A. Kirk, vocational, guidance officer of the Government Youth Centre, left for Christchurch ; last night. ...■■■■■■• ...

Mr. D. S. Hamilton, head office inspector of the State Advances Corporation,' Wellington, has- arrived in Christchurch to tak;e over "the management of the corporation's Christchurch braiich during the convalescence of Mr. F. Shaw, who recently underwent an operation.

. Canon W. .S. Bean* Christchurch, will, celebrate this month the sixtieth anniversary .of his., of donation, by Bishop Harped itfSt; Michael's =Chtifch. Canon Bean was vicar of Addington from; 1892 to 1933, a record of service in one parish ; in the Christchurch Diocese. He was ordained deacon on September 25, 1881,. and priest In the Cathedral in September, 1883.