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Evening Star, Issue 18135, 27 November 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL

The Hon. W. D. Stewart returned to Dunedin un Saturday Jrum Lemuha.. _ Mr D. F. Wilbur. Iho How Zealand Consul-General tor the United Slates of America, has accepted ant invitation to visit the Invercargill agricultural show, which is to be held early in Decembci. Sir Francis 801 l (Attorney-General and leader of the Legislative Council), who lias been abroad on an eight months’ tnp, is expected bach by the Jahiti, is due in Wellington on December 2. 1 jicnf.cnant-ooloiwl -I. Pow, who jus been selected from a. largo number of applicants lo till Mm position of dominion secretary to the Now Zealand Farmers’ Union (which "’ill he rendered vacant by the retirement, of Mr K- C. .lack), "013 educated at Iho Southland Boys High School and iho Otago University. Ho spent seven years as a. learner in Iho. Southland Boys’ High School_ and eight years in the'Otago Boys’ High School. Ho was a. member of one of the New Zealand contingents in South Africa.. Ho joined the N.Z.E.If. in 1015 as a lieutenant, and was discharged in 1919 as a, lieutenant-colonel. During his period of service at the front he was twice wounded, was mentioned in despatches, and received the D.S.O. Colonel Pow for tho past two years has occupied the position of general 'secretary to the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, which position he has now resigned. He will take up his now duties next month. An old resident of Auckland, who m his younger days had his full share of tho moving life of the goldfields, passed away on Tuesday in the person of Mr Louis Henry Ncumegen. Born in London on May 1, 1837, Mr Ncumegen landed at Melbourne in. November, 1855. In 1851 lie went to Gabriel’s Gully, Otago, and and four years later went to Auckland, where ho resided ever since. A London cable states that Captain Hotham, of the New Zealand has been appointed Aide-de-camp to tho King. Mr S. 6. Smith, of the Government Life, went to Christchurch to-day to attend the Masonic installation of Lord Jelli00c, and, having been granted a holiday, he will from thence go to see his sons, Mr W, Smith, at Beofton, and Mr S. G. Smith, jnn,, at Motueka. His Honor tho Chief Justice (Sir 11. Stout) expects to leave for Christchurch, next Monday, and will bo away for about a week.