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Evening Star, Issue 20473, 2 May 1930, Page 9

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= —Vice-Regal.— The ' Gazette ’ anounces the following appointments to the staff of _ the Governor-General:—To be hon. aides-de-camp: Colonel (temporary brigadier) J. H. Whyte, D.S.M., D. 5.0.. N.Z. Staff Corps; Lieutenant-colonel J E. Duigan, D. 5.0., N.Z. Staff Corps; Colonel H. C, Hurst, D. 5.0., commanding 3rd N.Z; Mounted Rifles Brigade; Colonel W. H. Cunningham, D. 5.0., commanding 2nd N.Z. Infantry Brigade; Lieutenant-colonel R. G Milligan, D. 3.0., commanding Northern Coast Artillery Group; Colonel J. N. M'Carroll, C.M.G., D. 5.0., Reserve of Officers. To be hon. physician: Colonel J. L. Frazerhurst, M.D., N.Z. Medical Corps. To behon. surgeon: Colonc' H. T. D. Acland, C.M.G., C.8.E., F.R.C.S. To be hon. naval aide-de-camp: Captain John S. G. Fraser. D. 5.0., R.N.

Mr H. L. Tapley is on his way to Wellington, He left by the second express to-day. The Rev. J, M. Simpson, late of St. Stephen’s Church, North Dunedin, has accepted a call to Sumner, in succession to the* Rev. W. M’Ara, and left to-day for his new charge. Mr A. 0. Russell, who for five years has been manager of the Wanganui branch of the A.M.P. Society, has been promoted to take charge of the Dunedin Office. Last evening the local staff made a presentation of a crystal decanter and tumblers, eulogistic reference being made to Mr RuselT* sterling qualities. He left for Dunedin to-day. He made many friends during his stay in Wanganui, and was prominent m golf circles.—Special correspondent. - Touching tributes to the memory of the late Dr Harrison were paid in Cromwell this morning when the hearse bearing his remains left for Dunedin, where the funeral takes places. A very largo concourse of people followed from the hospital residence through the town, and members of the Masonic Lodge, of which deceased was a member, and of the Oddfellows’ Lodge attended as a body. In front of the memorial grounds the procession passed through lines of Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. The local returned" soldiers also, paraded through the town, and all business places were temporarily closed. At the ordinary meeting of the Borough Council last night a touching tribute to the . doctor’s memory was paid by the mayor, who referred to his marked skill and unfailing sense of duty.—Cromwell correspondent.

Mr B. S. Irwin, president of the Forbury Park Trotting Club, referred nt> the meeting of the committee of the club last night to the death of Mr S. S Myers, and spoke of the loss the club and kindred sports had thereby suffered. Some of the younger members of the committee, said Mr Irwin, might not remember Mr Myers. He had been an active official of the club, and, as a matter of fact, he was one of the early members of the Tahuna Park Trotting Club, which had been formed in 1892. After being a vicepresident for some years he had been elected president in 1897. He had held the position of president till 1906, and in the same year was elected patron of the club. He had been elected a life member of the Forbury Park Club about twenty years ago. Mr Irwin then moved that they plac» on record their appreciation of the work done for the club and the sport of trotting in its early days by Mr Myers, and that they extend to his relatives their sympathy with them in their bereavement. The motion was carried in silence.

Prior to commencing the business at the meeting of the committee of the Forbury Park Trotting Club last night the president (Mr B. S. Irwin) referred to the loss the club had sustained through the death of Mr T. T. Ritchie, a vice-president of the club. Mr Ritchie, as they knew, had been connected with the sport of trotting for a great many years, both as an official and as an active participant in the sport. He had been elected a member of the Tahuna Park Trotting and Racing Club in 1895, when there was only a membership of twenty-five. He had been elected a member of the committee of the Trotting Club in 1903, and resigned in 1906. He had been elected a member of the committee in 1913, and continued a member until 1926. when he was elected vice-presi-dent, which position he had held up to the time of Lis death. He had been a member of the New Zealand Trotting Association for three years, but had resigned owing to pressure of business. Mr Ritchie had driven his first winner, Airedale in a Ladies’ Bracelet Handicap at Tahuna Park twentyeight years ago, and had been ah owner and breeder of trotters for the past thirty-five years. That was a record , that any man might be very proud of, said Mr Irwin. They all knew him personally, and they all knew the large amount of work he had done for their club. Dir Ritchie’s death meant a very severe loss to them. Mr Irwin then moved that the committee place on record their appreciation of the great work Mr Ritchie had done for the Forbury Park Club as an official, and that they extend to Mrs Ritchie a~d family their deepest sympathy with them in their sad bereavement. The motion was carried in silence.

Dr G. H. Scholefield, Parliamentary Librarian, is enjoying a holiday in the Tokomairiro district.

Mrs E. R. M'Combs has been selected as the official Labour candidate for the Christchurch North seat (says a Press Association telegram). Mr George Thomson, of Messrs Thomsons, Ltd., Police street, has been appointed to represent the City Council at the conference called by the Minister of Internal Affairs to deal with the question of the deer menace. The conference is to be held at Christchurch on May 7. Staying at the Grand Hotel are Mi's J T. Martin, Messrs J. N. Frew, E, W. M'Lean, and M. A. Carr (Wellington), Mrs R. L. Wigley (Timaru), Mr and Mrs J. W. _ Smith ( and Mr U. Smith (Invercargill).