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Grey River Argus, 18 April 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr and Mrs D. £»r lg leave to-day for Nelson and Christchurch. Mr J. A. C. Bayne, Chief Inspector of Mines, js visiting the Coast. Mr G. L. Inwood, of the Public Works Department, leaves on Saturday for Tauranga. Mr 11. A. C. Davy has been appointed Auckland provincial secretary of the Uhi ed I’'«rty. Mr Davy is the eldest son of M r A. E. Davy, Dominion chairman of the party. Mr J. D. Wingham will leave this morning to attend the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby League Council, which commences in Auckland on Saturday. Mr A. Piper is now acting as railway locomotive engineer for the South Island, pending the appointment of a successor to Mr L. W. Robertson, who has been tran ferred to Auckland.

Recent arrivals at the Albion Hot'*] include: Mi ses Parkinson and Hardy, Messrs H. A. Beuham, A. M. Brotherstone, C. Goodman (Christchurch), Peck (Hokitika), G. E. Greening (Richmond), C. W. Burns. E. A. Rodd. W. R. Duffy. General Higgins, the new Salvatioa Army Commander, has appointed Colonel Levi Taylor Chief Secretary (second in command t o Conimis ioner Hay; of th e Army in New Zealand, aud with his wife be arrives this week at Auckland. Mr Leo De Chateau is now in Auckland arranging for Sir Harry Lauder’s farewell tour of New Zealand. Mr du Chateau will also make the prelimin ary arrangements for the tour of Erica Mon ini, the greatest female violinist in the world. Mr H. Vickerman, of the firm of Vickerman and Lancaster, left yes y terday for Wellington, Mr Lancaster, who has also been visiting Greymouth in connection with the Hydro-Elee-,tricity scheme, leaves to-day for Weheka. South Westland, and returns to the North during the week-end

A cable from London announces the death of Mr Joseph HavQock Wilson .leader of the Seamen’s Union and prominent in Labour circles. He was born in 1859. The message ad ded that despite seven years’ ill health, he worked until three p.m. yesterday, arranging a meeting of the executive of the Seamen’s had a seizure while discussing- qV >• ness, and was put to bed, but; died at 5 p.m. His doctor had warned him at Christmas time that he must case up, but he confuted himself with a holiday at Bognor.

Mr J. W. Greenslade was reelected, unopposed to the Greymouth Mayoralty yesterday. Mr Greenslade has been a. member of the Borough Council for many years, and at the last Municipal Ek iclion he succeeded in attaining the mayoralty by a substantial margin of votes. .Mr Greenslade is also Chairman of the Grey Power Board, *ind a member of the Harbour Board, and has taken a prominent part in the public life of the town generally. Yesterday he receive! congratulator; messages concerning his election for a second term as ur.ayoi’, and also in Regard to the carrying of the Hydo-Elcctricity Loan proposal.