PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 9

PERSONAL

Mr James Begg left for Wellington this ‘morning to attend a meeting of the Meat Board.

Mr D. ATDougall, ALP. for Mataura, was a through passenger for Wellington by the second express this morning.

Commander H. L. Morgan, D. 5.0., who was formerly in command of H.AI.S. Veronica, has retired from the Navy with the rank of captain. Since his return to England from New Zealand in 1932 he has been assistant King’s harbourmaster at Chatham dockyard. 1 Subject to the approval of the Minister of Health, the new medical superintendent of the Palmerston North Public Hospital will be Dr J. H. North, resident surgical officer and tutor at the Dunedin Hospital.

A visitor by the Remuera is Mr H. G. Courtney, a prominent alpinist, who intends to tackle some of New Zealand's peaks, going first to Mount Cook district.

The Mayor of Waimato (Mr Georg© Dash) is in Dunedin for the National Flower Show and conference. Mr Dash will also attend a conference on Thursday of the Electric Power Board and supply authorities.

The funeral of Mrs Annie Allen Bevan-Brown (who died on Sunday), widow of Dr C. E. Bevan-Brown, who for many years was head master of the Christchurch Boys’ High School, was held yesterday afternoon (records the ‘Press’). The procession loft Mrs Bcvan-Brown’s homo in Hackthorne road for the Anglican Cathedral, where a memorial service was held, and then went to tho Bromley Cemetery, where the burial took place. Many of those who attended the funeral were old boys of the Christchurch Boys’ High School. The chief mourners were:—Dr Maurice BevanBrown, Dr Robert Bevan-Brown, Dr T. L. Crooke, Dr A. J. Orchard, Dr D. E. Currie, and Mr F. S. Wilding. At the cathedral the pall-bearers wereDr John Guthrie, Professor R. Speight, Messrs G. J. Lancaster (head master of the Christchurch Boys’ High School) , R. C. Abernethy (president of the Christchurch High School Old Boys’ Association), FI A. de la Mare, and G. Mortlock. At the cathedral were Archbishop Julius, the Bishop of Christchurch (the, Rt. Rev. Dr Campbell West-Watson), and Dean Julius. The Grand Hotel register contains th« following latest additions;—Mr W-: Robert Moore (Washington), Mr Alex.Taylor (Jersey, Channel Islands), Mr T. E. Bradburn (Manchester), Mrs Newman Stirling, Miss Agnes Blake (London), Messrs E. P. Holt and H.C. Fahle (Melbourne), Miss and Miss N. M'Sweeney (Sydney), Mr R. K.Ellis (Wellington), Mr and Mrs F. Mj Dennehy and Masters Denneby, Mr J,Kennedy (Greymouth), Mr find Mrs 3. O. Corner (Napier), Dr and Mrs A,Douglas (Oamaru), and Miss R v O’Byrne (Invercargill). City Hotel guests; Misses M. Lipferfc aud 6. Lipfert (Perth), Messrs Cyril A. Snedden and W>. Carlaw (Auckland', Mr E. G. Hasel] (Masterton), Mr S. L. Stevenson, Miss A. Crowley (Wellington), Mr C. G. Pansey, Mrs J. Taylor, Master Taylor (Christchurch), Messrs C. A. Robinson, W. D. Campbell, A. Lindsay, Airs Crowley (Timaru), Mr C. Coventry (Waimate), Miss M. Cochrane (Palmerston). Mr= Amos AFKegg (Pembroke), and Air and Airs Longuet (Invercargill).