PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21836, 27 September 1934, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr R. M. Passmore left this morn* iug for Auckland on business. Mr James Begg is on his way to Wellington to attend a meeting of Reserve Bank directors.

Mr C. L. Calvert will be in Wellington to-morrow for a meeting of the New Zealand Law Society. -■ Mr L. W. Potter was a passenger for. Wellington by the 11.35 train to-day. Four members of the Otago Motor Club—Mr F. J. Williams (president), Mr W. A. Sutton (secretary), Messrs E. W. G. H. Watts and P. W. Curtis —travelled to Christchurch by train to-day to attend the annual meeting of the South Island Motor Union, and the four members of the Southland Motor Club, who also went by the express, were Messrs J. R. Haigh, D. ■I. Wesney, A. E. Wish, and J. B, Dick (secretary).

Feeling reference was made at th® annual meeting of the Otago Motor Club last night to the death of th» club’s patron, Sir John Roberts. Mr A. G. Gordon, who for the pasti three years has been Vocational Guidance officer attached to the Disabled Soldiers’ Re-establishment Committee, will sever his connection with that body from the end of this month and will be transferred back to the Lands and Survey Department’s local office. _ Mr Gordon was instrumental in organising the concern known as Disabled Soldiers’' Products, which employs a number of ex-servicemen making leather goods and other articles.

“Since the last meeting there has passed away a great citizen in the per-. son of Sir John Roberts.” said the mayor (Rev. E. T. Cox) before the commencement of business at last night’s meeting of the City Council. “For fifty years he has occupied a leading place in the industrial and com. mercial life of the dominion, his activities not being confined to this city. To his wise leadership we owe much of the development of the country. The shipping interests which he guided became, under his chairmanship, a worldwide organisation. Added to his business capacity was Lis moral integrity, on of the greatest attributes in citizenship. He took a leading part in community life, being mayor and chairman of the Exhibition. I have already communicated, on your behalf, our sympathy with the family.” The soloists for ‘ The Messiah,’ to be given in. Invercargill, will be Mrs J. Davies (soprano). Miss .Bertha Rawlinson (contralto), Mr Les. Dailey (tenor), and Mr A. M‘Dowell (bass). The death is announced of Mr Alfred Osborne Leach, secretary of the War Relief Association in Wellington. He served with the Imperial forces in the South African War with commissioned rank. He had been secretary of the Wellington War Relief Association for, the past eighteen years, and was associated with a number of patriotic movements and schemes for the assistance of returned men. He is survived by his widow. Staying at the Grand Hotel are Messrs A. M'Donald, J. Buchanan, and A. Buchanan (Masterton), Messrs S. A. Ogilvie, G. M'Namara, and F. J. Bradley (Wellington), Mr H. Turner (Christchurch), and Mrs Linton Mann and Master Malcolm Mann (Wapaka). City Hotel: —Mr L. Russell (New. Plymouth), Messrs P. Lawlor and C. M. Budd (Wellington), Mr D. Clayton (Christchurch), and Messrs A. F. Froggartt and J. A. Martin (Invercargill).