PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 December 1938, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Messrs H. B. McGlashen. J. Pocklington T Hickmott, and J. G. Wilkinson will represent the Motueka Bowling Club at the bowling tournament to be held at Westport. The death occurred in the Greytown Hospital on Wednesday morning of Colonel Robert Ward Tate, C.M.G., C.8.E., F.R.E.S. He was a son of the late Mr E. H. Tate, of the Union Bank of Australia, Wellington, and was born in 1864. He was the first Civil Administrator in Samoa, a position he held for four years oefore resigning in 1923 and returning to New Zealand. Later he was appointed a stipendiary magistrate, located at Whangarei and New Plymouth. Retiring in 1933, Mr Tate resumed his former partnership with Mr J. F. Thompson in a legal practice at Greytown. Mr Tate was married twice and is survived by a widow and a grown-up family—Mrs K. FullertonSmith (Taihape), Miss Dorothy Tate (Greytown). Messrs A. R. W. Tate (Sydney), and J. W. Tate (Greytown). Among the passengers to arrive in Nelson to-morrow morning by the ferry steamer from Wellington will be Mr S G. Mathieson, D.D., minister of the Church of Christ at Denver City. Colorado U.S.A Mr Mathieson was at one time minister of the Spring Grove and Nelson City Churches of Christ, and is paying a short visit to friends in the city and district. Though visiting Nelson alone, Mr Mathieson is accompanied on the trip from America by Mrs Mathieson and a party of American friends. On Sunday next Mr Mathieson will preach in the Spring Grove Church of Christ in the morning, and in the city church in the evening. Next week he will give an illustrated lecture on American life and scenes.