PERSONAL

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 162, 10 June 1929, Page 7

PERSONAL

A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) returned from Rotorua by train on Saturday afternoon, and left for Wellington by the Limited express last night. The Leador of the Opposition (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) and Mrs Coates and family have now taken up their residence in AVellington for the coming session of Parliament. Mr Coates left on Saturday evening on a visit to Christchurch and Dunedin. The death occurred suddenly at Arapuni of Mr John Hoey Moore. He served for the full period of the Great War with the Australian engineers, and was wounded at Gallipoli. He was reported unfit for service, but later went to Franco, where lie was awarded the D.C.M. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin announces the death at Kelantan, Malaya, of Mr William Rower Bell, aged 55 years', manager of a rubber company. At one time the deceased, who ' was born at Inchclutha, was a champion cyclist, and he was also a pioneer motor cyclist. Congratulations wero conveyed to Mr H. B. Tucker by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., at the annual meeting of the Palmerston Licensing Committee today on his completion of 29 years as licensee of the Club Hotel, and the chairman expressed the hope that he would be spared to continue for many more years. The Minister of Health (Hon. A. J. Stallworthy), who returned to Wellington on Saturday from Auckland, will visit Otalu on Wednesday, in order to open the Otaki Hospital, which has been renovated and handed over by the Health Department to the control of the Palmerston North Hospital Board. A cable message from Washington announces that the sudden death occurred at New Canan, Connecticut, of Mr Bliss Carman, the Canadian poet and journalist. Mr Carman was born in 1861. His publications included “Low Tide on Grand Pre,” “Ballads of Lost Haven,” “Songs from Vagibondia,” “Ode for the Coronation (1902), “Daughters of Dawn.” On account of the serious illness of Mr Bert Boyle, representative in New Zealand for J. C. Williamson, Ltd., Mr John Farrell is being transferred to Wellington from Auckland, and will arrive there to-morrow. . Mr A. Wilson will proceed north to-night to take over the management of the “Young Woodley” Company which opens in Auckland this week. Mrs Boyle, who recently underwent a serious operation in Wanganui, is now convalescent, and lias returned to Wellington, but is still confined to her bed. The death occurred at liis residence, Auckland, last week, of Mr Hugh Munro-Wilson, aged 64. A son of the late Mr James Irwin Wilson, one of the earliest pioneers of the north, Mr Wilson qualified as an engineer at a verv early age, following the same profession as his father. He was for manv years engineer to the Waitemata County Council. Later, practising his profession independently, lie carried out a number of large works in various parts of the Dominion. Kev. F. M. Kempthorne, 8.A., vicar of the Pohangina parochial district, his accepted appointment as the vicar of Khandallah and Ngaio, in the place of Bev. Canon O. M. Stent, who is *o leave shortly for England, and will take up liis new duties early in August. Ho is a son of the Ven. Archdeacon and Mrs Kempthorne, or Nelson. After serving Ins curacy at St Peter’s Church, AVellington, lie became vicar of the Pohangina parochial district. His place m Pohangina will he taken by Rev. H. L B. Goertz, vicar of Eastbourne. The silver jubilee of the ordination of the Very Rev. Monsignor Cahill, parish priest of Onehunga, was celebrated yesterday. Monsignor Cahill was ordained on June 12, 1904, in the town of Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland. He was born in County Tipperary m 1879, and after completing his studies he came to New Zealand and was for two years assistant at St. Patrick s Cathedral, Auckland. Afterwards he was appointed parish priest at Huntly, remaining there until 1913. He filled several appointments before taking up his present charge at Onehunga in 1920. For outstanding services he was made monsignor in 1924, and in 1927 he had the dignity of prothonotary apostolic conferred upon him. Mr George AVilson, formerly a well known business man, his residence, Lyall Bay,* Wellington, vesterday, after an ill of two days. Born in Lander, Berwickshire, Scotland, in 1856, Mr Wilson received his early commercial training in the employ of Messrs R. T. Turnbull and Company, of London. In 1882 he arrived in New Zealand, where, with the late Hon. J. G. AV. Aitken, he founded the firm of Messrs Aitken, AVilson and Co general merchants, of Customhouse Quay. In 1914 he retired from business with his partner. Shortly afterwards he was appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Munitions Board, devoting his time during the war to the allocating of stores and equipment. At the conclusion of hostilities he acted on the committee or. the Board of Trade which dealt with the control of prices.