PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2086, 29 March 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mr A. M. Ongley has been re-elected president o: the Manawatu Rugby Union. Sir Francis Bell leaves Wellington py the Athenic to-day for the Old Country. Mr A. G. Eignell has been re-elected president of the Wanganui Employers’ Association. A London cable message records the death of Dr. Walter Perry, formerly of Timaru. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, .Minister of Lands, who has been on a visit to Feilding, left yesterday for Auckland. Mr J. F. Montague, of Auckland, has been appointed judge of elocution at the Wanganui competitions, which take place early in October.

The Hon. George Fowlds told a press representative at Dunedin that he would not again enter the political arena under the existing electoral system. ,

Mr T. M Wilford, Leader of the Opposition, is about to make a North Island tour, going to Featherston, Carterton, Masterton, Napier, Hastings, Gisborne and Tauranga.

The successor to the late Mr Wm. Pryor as secretary of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation will be Mr Bishop, provided the Coal-mine Owners’ Federation is willing to let him go.

All the Dominions, except New Zealand, are sending their High Commissioners to G«uoa, states a Press Association cable. Sir James Allen has not received any instructions regarding the matter.

The Rev. Alexander McCallum, the president of the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Australia, is visiting Dunedin in connection with the celebration of the centenary of New Zealand Methodism.

Mr L. Paynter, orchard inspector, Hamilton, has been appointed to take charge of the Canterbury district, in succession to Mr G. Stratford, who was transferred to Motueka on his return from England about six months

The Manawatu Employers Association is taking: steps to recognise in a practical manner the services rendered the employers of the Dominion by the late Mr William Pryor, secretary of the New Zealand Employers Federation.

The death is reported at Rotorua of Mr John Henry Steedman, a wellknown resident of Waikawau. He retired a few years ago owing to bad health, and had visited Rotorua in hopes of improvement. He leaves a widow and family of five.

By the Tahiti, which arrived at Wellington on Monday from San Francisco, two important delegates reached New Zealand to take part in the jubilee of the New Zealand Independent Order of Rechabites. They were Mr Amos Tomlinson, High Chief Ruler, and Mr J. FI. Lear-Caton, Past High Chief Ruler.

Mr Harold Beauchamp, who will be leaving by the s.s. Tahiti on April 11, for America, Canada, and the United Kingdom, does not intend to seek re-election to the position of chairman of directors of the Bank of New Zealand, which position must be filled at the first meeting of the board to be held early in April.

The funeral of the late Mr William M. Hannay, which took place on Monday, was very largely attended That the deceased gentleman was held in high respect by a very large circle was evident from the representative gathering of citizens who paid tribute to his memory. A brief service, held at his late residence on The Terrace (Wellington), was conducted by the Rev. Dr. J. Kennedy Elliott, assisted by the Rev. J. Baird, both of the Kent Terrace ' Presbyterian Church, with which the late Mr Hannay w r as so prominently connected for a number of years. The chief mourners were Messrs A. and K. B. Hannay (sons), and Dr. Forrest and Messrs F. Widdop and J. C. Macarthur (sons-in-law). Officers of the Kent Terrace Church acted as pall-bearex-s. Those present included all the Presbyterian ministers of Wellington, Sir John Luke, M.P., Councillor T. Forsyth (chairman of the Wellington Education Board), Messrs R. T. Turnbull, G. Wilson, J. P. Maxwell, J. Marchbanks (engineer to the Wellington Harbour Board, and for many years associated with the late Mr Hannay in the management of the V/ellington-Manawatu Railway Company), W. Helyer, J. A., C., and R. Plimmer, W. Bethune, E. G. Pilcher, W. Hopkirk, A. E. Whyte, G. Winder, H. D. Vickery, A. and J. Smyth, H. W. Kersley, R. C. Jones, W. F. Cuthbertson, Dr. McDonald Wilson (superintendent of Wellington Hospital), Drs. Elliott and Young, and many others. There were some beautiful floral tributes from numerous organisations. The interment was made in the Sydney-street Cemetery.

Among the new underskirts shown at Collinson and Cunninghame’ are some in soft satin with deep kilted frill, henna or royal blue, elastic waist, 39/6. A new shape satin underskirt has to-day’s small pleated frill, in cerise, brown or purple, 35/. Orchestral music each afternoon in tearooms.’ 11