PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 8

PERSONAL

Professor Lawson loft for Wellington this morning to attend a meeting ot the Schools Syllabus Revision Committee.

Mr John MMvillop, of .Melbourne, one of the delegates to the Bakers’ Conference in Auckland, camo to Dunedin with his wife to see Captain Coll M'Donald and other friends, and they left for their homo this morning.

| Mr Hugh APKenzie, of M’oodlands, I passed through Dunedin this morning on Ids way to Christchurch. Air James M'Donald, of Totara, is on a business visit to Dunedin, and goes home to-morrow.

Four Southland ministers went by the through express to-day, bound for the General Assembly at Wellington—tbo Revs. M'. Tanner, M' T . F. Evans, W. Norton, and J. 13. Birkerstaffc—and by the same train Professor Hewitson and tbo Revs. J. D. Smith and W, Trotter also travelled.

The Rev. W. Eaycock is well remembered in Dunedin. Tie was stationed here as a Primitive Methodist preacher from 1894 to 1899, and after the Methodist union lie .had charge of the Dumlas Street Church from 1905 to R)U9. The announcement to-day by the Press Association of bis death at Christchurch will bo read with regret. He bad readied the age of 09His lies.or Sir William Sim was a. passenger for Invercargill this morning to attend tbo session ol tbo. Supremo Court there. The magistrate, Air J. M r . Poynion, died at his residence in Auckland on Sunday night, aged 65. Ho was born in Victoria in 1801, and was brought to New Zealand by bis parents two years later. After following gold mining for 10 years, Air Poynion took up law in 1895. He was appointed magistrate at Invercargill, becoming Public Trustee five years later. In 1910 he was appointed Secretary to the Treasury and superintendent of the Advances to Settlers’ Office, a breakdown in health leading to his reappointment to the magisterial bench in 1913. After serving at Palmerston North for five years lie went to Auckland, where he was granted six months’ leave in September.—Press Association. •

General Sir G. M. Clarke, baronet, lias come to New Zealand on a visit, and lias been spending a while in the Wakatipu district. Ho reached Dunedin this evening, and is to put up for a few days at the Fernhill Club. The death is announced of Mr Frank Edwin Wilson, Mayor of New Plymouth since 1921. Though in indifferent health, he attended to his mayoral duties and to his profession up to Saturday morning He became very unwell on Saturday night, and a doctor was called in. Mr Wilson became unconscious, and was removed to the hospital at 4 a.in. on Sunday. Ho remained unconscious until the end came at 11 a.m. to-day. It ys understood that cerebral meningitis was the cause of death.—Press Association. Recent arrivals to the Grand Hotel include Mr Chas. Sassella (Melbourne), Messrs N. E. Hill and D. W. Bay (Wellington), Mr D. N. Anderson (Christchurch), Mr 0. Hutchinson (Timaru), Mr Sydney Smith (Queenstown), Messrs T. W. Allan, D. Cunningham, D. W. Stalker, and K. P. Meek (Invercargill). Among the new visitors to the Excelsior Hotel .are Mr and Mrs H. Druilfe (London), Mr L. N. Scott (Sydney), Mr V. Blanc (Auckland), Messrs T. G. Brasch and W. H. M'Alpine (Wellington). Mr and Mrs T. Mac Gibbon, N. Mac Gibbon. and Mr Perry (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs F. W. Clarke (Timaru), and Air G. Pinckney (Waikaia)..