PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 31 July 1929, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. Vaughan Thomas, Mus. Doc. M.A. Oxon., arrived in Nelson to-day to conduct examinations for Trinity College of Music.

The annual overhaul of the Anchor Company's steamer Arahura was completed to-day and the vessel sails far Wellington for Government inspection to-night. On the return of the Ngaio from Westport she will replace ithe Union Company's Tamahine on the Wcl-lington-Picton 'service while that vessel undergoes overhaul.

Mr F. W. Carey, Wellington manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., is shortly retiring from the company after forty years' service. He joined the firm as a boy in Blenheim in 1889, and occupied positions in various branches of the company until his appointment a.s manager in Wellington in 1918. Mr Oarey was chairman of the Wellington Wooibrokers' Association during the trying period of the wool industry, when "Bawra" came into existence for the better regulation of wool sales. During recent years Mr Carey has been a keen golf player, and was* a member of the committee of the Hutt Club. Mr Carey is being succeeded as Wellington manager by Mr William Hammond, of tho lnvercargill branch.

Captain John Bath, who was one of the victims of the explosion on the cruiser Devonshire,. was captain of marines on H.M.S. Diomede on the New Zealand station from 1925 until 1928.

The death occurred at Westport last week of Mr Samuel Veale, an old resident of the Buller district. The late. Mr Veale, who was eighty-four years of age, had been a resident of New Zealand for sixty years, and for the greater part of that time he was engaged in mining. He was a nativ e of Dartmouth, England, and was well known m the Reefton and Greymou'.h districts.

Mr Wynne < Cowlishaw, of Christchurch, who is playing the part of "James Brooks" in "Going Up" arrived in Nelson yesterday morning. On Monday it was learnt with regret that Mr J. E. Allan, who was suffering from influenza, would be unable to play his part of "Brooks," and Mr Cowlishaw was immediately communicated with, and generously offered to come to Nelson to help the Operatic Society out of a serious difficulty. Mr Cowlishaw left Christchurch at ten o'clock on Monday night and was met in Blenheim bv Mr A. E. Bradshaw, who motored' him through to Nelson in time for a short rehearsal at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mr Allan's health is improving. A Victoria University College student, Mr F. W. G. White, M.Sc. leaves on Friday for England. He holds a postgraduate scholarship in science and has been awarded the Strathcona studentship for St. ,Tohn'.« College, Cambridge. Mr White, who has been working under Professor Florence, will continue his work in the Cavendish laboratory under Sir Ernest Rutherford.—Press Association.