PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 239, 6 September 1928, Page 7

PERSONAL

On account of a bereavement in the family, Mr J. 6. Eliott (Oroua) has been granted four days’ leave of absence from the House of Representatives.

Hon. W. W. Snodgrass.and Hon. V-' H. Mclntyre, whose appointments had expired by effluxion of time, have been reappointed to the Legislative Council for a further term of seven years, and were sworn in yesterday. Mr W. Harrington, who has been convalescing in Wellington following a, severe attack of influenza, is returning to Palmerston North this evening. His many friends will Igara with Eleasure that he is steadily recovering is health.

At the meeting of the West End School Committee last evening, the chairman, Mr C. H. Whitehead, extended a hearty welcome to a nqw member, Mr A. Beattie, who has been elected to fill the vacancy caused by Mr J. Ferguson’s resignation. In the Legislative Council yesterday & further seven days’ leave of absence was granted Sir Robert Stout on account of illness. For a similar reason, three days’ leave of absence was granted to Hon. W. H. Triggs aild Hon. C. J. Carrington.

Itev. Ernest R. Weeks, who has been minister of the Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington, for the last three and a half years, has tendered his resignation, which was accepted at a church meeting last night. He intends leaving with his wife and son for England at the end of the year.

The death, occurred at York Bay, .Wellington, on Tuesday of Mr Tudor Atkinson, a son of the late Sir Harry Atkinson (who was Premier of New Zealand) and a brother of Mr H. W. Atkinson (for many years clerk of the Hutt County Council) and Mr Alfred Atkinson, of York Bay.

A cable message from Hobart announces the death of Mr Joseph Hatch, aged 91 years, who at onetime leased from the Tasmanian Government MacQuarrie Island for the exploitation of the penguin rookeries and seal fisheries. Mr Hatch was formerly Mayor of Invercargill and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives.

Mr W. T. Goodwin, of the horticultural division of the Department of Agriculture, who went to the Argentine, Brazil, Canada and the United States on behalf of the Fruit Export Control Board to investigate the possibilities of extending the market for New Zealand fruit in those countries, will leave San Francisco by the Makura which is due at Wellington bn October 22.

Mr F. A. Harkness, of Wanganui, lias received word of the death of h:s brother, Mr O. R. Harkness, who as a young man was well known on this coast, particularly in Taranaki and Waverley, being a prominent footballer and a member of the Wairoa Light Horse, says the Wanganui Chronicle. During the Klondyke gold rush a party left Wanganui, consisting of Messrs J. C. Nixon, AV. Beaven, AV. Paul and the late Mr C. R. Harkness. The latter settled in Mexico, where he died.

Having completed 40 years of service, Mr E. H. Marriott, superintendent of the telegraph office at. Dunedin. retires on superannuation as from to-dav. Mr Marriott commenced in too service in Wellington in 1888, and after a period in the capital city was transferred to Blenheim as technical officer, and later -to Wellington as supervisor. Subsequently, he was stationed at senior supervisor at Palmerston North, and then at Napier, and for the past three years he has been with the Dunedin office.

The death has occurred at Auckland of Mr Arthur Preston Cowie, aged 53 years. Born at Old Bishopscourt, Parnell, the deceased gentleman was the youngest son of Bishop W. GCowie and a brother of Archdeacon M Cowie, of Hamilton, and Rev. J. P. Cowie, vicai of Pukekolie. For eighteen years he was the missioner at the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen, but more recently had conducted the Mercantile Marine Mission at Auckland. Prior to his mission work in the city he had performed a similar service at Moturoa, New Plymouth, among the fishermen. Before‘his appointment as naval chaplain in Auckland, Mr Cowie conducted services on the war sloop Veronica. He leaves a wife and a stepson.