PERSONAL

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1353, 13 March 1928, Page 4

PERSONAL

Premier Coates is expected to -c----tnrn to Wellington from the South to-morrow. Tho death occurred on Saturday of Mr Robert Wilson, a well known Wellington woollen merchant, in hi* olst year. He had been ill for ,ioino time. Mi- S. G. Chapin, of Hastings, i student of architecture in London, lias been, selected as one of the id candidates eligible to compete iu the iinal competitions for the Rome Scholarships of 1928. A British official wireless message says that the King on Saturday received General .John Duncan, lately Commander of the Shanghai Defence Force, and conferred a knighthood upon him.

Mr Hugh Roehfort, sub-inspector of tho Bank of New Zealand, died at his residence, Khnndallah, yesterday, after a brief illness, aged G 1 years. He was well known in Feiluing. Mrs Alfred Richmond k his sister.

Mr Vivian Fail; forest assistant in the State Forest Service, has resigned to take up a position of forestry administrator and New Zealand manager for the Afforestation Pronrietry Co.. Ltd., of Melbourne, which is planting 25,000 acres of pumice land at Taupe.