PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 17324, 12 April 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL

—~~*_ The Hon. C. ij. Parr, Minister of Education, visited Ijalmerston North on Saturday, and impeded the primary and secondary schools ini the town. The Minister afterwards went on to Dannevirke. At the bikeaouso of Messrs Browns, Ltd., in Can-oil street on Thursday morning last Mr Jihu Brown was presented by his fellow-jTOrkers on the * occasion of his seventieth birthday. The presentation was made! by Mr J. Roy, foreman of tho establishment. The Hon. J. ftnxham. of the Treasury,' Brisbane, and s&reiary for Public Instruction, arrived heje on Saturday night, and spent about twl hours vestefdnv inspecting the Dunedit Hospital. The" Hon. Mr Huxham, who j. accompanied by his wife and secretary, js seeking information in to hcspjtal administration in the The;party left for Queenstown tliis morning, i Mr W. P. Jrchibald, who was killed in a motor fcr accident in Hawke's Bay. _ was one <f the most familiar figures ' on New Zealand show grounds. He was ; a recognised aifihority on sheep, and frequently judged [them'in the show rings. Messrs A. Ejßeami.-h and A. H. Lowe. the British teiiiis players, left Auckland by the Makurajon their return journey to England. I An interesting visitor to Taranaki is Mr iL. Von Terng?ky, son of VMajor Von i Tempsky, who/was killed at Tengutu-o-te-I Manu in 1.863.j Mr Von Tempsky owns a j large cattle raiph at Honolulu. Mr W. R. Jagnall, -who was re-elected : to the New Soyth Wales Legislature as one I of the represehtatures of the St. George I I constituency a| the recent election, is an I ! ex-Aucldanderjar.d a brother of Mr P. L I Bagnall, of Auckland. Mr Bagnall, who j represented Sj. Gecrge in the last two j Parliaments, laa at one* time a member of the staff jbf the Auckland 'Weekly News.' ) . / , Mr Alfred Uillwood, who was drowneS j off Pahia on \ Good Friday, was a wellknown Orepnji bushman—one of the best (says the•'Western Star'). He was also jan expert, jpiarist, and contemplated j launching cut on beekeeping oi» a large i scale. *