PERSONAL ITEMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24675, 30 August 1943, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. H. H. Sterling travelled to Wellington last night, Mr. H. F. O'Leary, K.C., of Wellington, is at the Central Hotel. Mr. J. A. Nash, of Palmerston North, first president of the Electric-Power Boards and Supply Authorities' Association, has been re-elected to that position. The Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Labour, the Hon. J. 6. Barclay, Minister of Marketing, and the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, Minister of Education are at the Station Hotel. Mr. Barclay will leave for Matamata this evening. ROLL OF HONOUR EXPEDITIONARY FORCE LIST (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sunday A Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force casualty list issued to-day contained the following names;— DIED PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING Murphy, E. P. —Christchurch. Todd, T. A. —Dunedin. PRESUMED DEAD PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING Winterbourn, J. —Timarn. TASMAN AIR SERVICE AOTEAROA'S ANNIVERSARY Tasman Empire Airways' flying-boat Aotearoa arrived in Auckland after-its delivery flight from England under the command of Captain J. W. Burgess four years ago on Saturday. The regular Tasman service began in April of the following year and up to June 30, 1943, the Aotearoa and her sister-ship, Awarua, have carried 8173 passengers in 460 trips totalling over 616,200 miles. Passenger miles have been computed at 8,196,780, and the flying-boats have carried 128.6951b. of freight and 372,9021b. of mail. The percentage of scheduled trips flown is 97.87. and all the 144 scheduled trips in the year ended March 31, 1943, were carried nut. Hours flown total 4078 and 2259 passengers were carried in the last year. OBITUARY MR. W. FEAKINS (0.C.) HAMILTON, Sunday The death has occurred of Mr. William Feakins. aged 90. Mr. Feakins was born on an island in the River Thames, England, and came to New Zealand in 1874. He worked with a survey party for some years in Taranaki, and assisted to lay out the town of Inglewood. Mr. Feakins then took up land at Lepperton, and retired 13 years ago. He is survived by a family of eight. THE MAREO CASE PETITIONER'S CLAIMS "Three things stand out from your report that the Statutes Revision Committee had no recommendation to make on my petition to the House of Representatives on the Mareo case," writes Mr. H. M. Rushworth; of Castor Bay, in a letter to the Herald. "Those are that the Prime Minister had not read my petition; that he believes a man must prove himself innocent, not that he is innocent until he is proved guilty; and that he questions the right of a citizen to petition the House." The petition did not ; ask for an inquiry into Mareo's guilt or innocence, Mr. Rushworth says. It asked for an inquiry into the divergence between certain statements to the police on the night of Thelma Mareo's death and in the evidence at the trial. That divergence, it was claimed, was very marked and vital. "1 claim my right as a citizen of this Dominion to petition the House year after year, if necessary." Mr. Rushworth continues. "I do not know Mareo, I have never spoken to him. nor had any communication with him. and my petition was lodged without his knowledge. I feel that I have a public duty to perform, I claim my rights as a" citizen, and I can promise the Prime Minister that there will be another petition next session, when I hope that there will be more members of the Statutes Revision Committee present than there were to hear this year's petition."

INDUCTION SERVICE ROYAL OAK BAPTIST CHURCH After two years' service in the Middle East, the He v. L. A. Day returned recently to New Zealand, and he was inducted yesterday, morning to the charge of the Royal Oak Baptist Church, which has been filled for- the past eight months by the Rev. R. W. Fursdon. The charge to the new minister and the congregation was given by Dr. J. J. North, principal of the Baptist College. Mr. Day has been succeeded in his overseas post bv the Rev A. H. Finlay. DEGREES CONFERRED IPA.) WELLINGTON. Saturday The following U uiversitv of NewZealand degrees were conferred yesterday:—Bachelor of Laws, Victoria. University College, Thomas Wilson Date: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Otago, Roma Holbrook Chatfield. COMMISSION WON Advice has been received that Sergeant L. W. Sinden, Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, of Heme Bay, has been granted a commission after attending the Middle East Officer Cadets Training Unit. Second-Lieuten-ant Sinden, who is the only son of the late Mr. and Mrs. TV 7 . F. Sinden, of Napier, left New Zealand with the First Echelon and served in Greece, Crete and throughout the African campaigns. He was wounded in Libya in June, 1942. After attending' the Napier High School and Auckland Grammar School, Second-Lieutenant Sinden became a member of the staff of the illustrations department of the New Zealand Herald. ANGLICAN SYNOD The third quarterly session of the Anglican Diocesan Synod will open on Monday, September 13. There will be a missionary service in St. Mary's Cathedral on that day, the preacher being the Rev. E. L. Pennington, chaplain of the United States Navy. A Holy Communion service will be held at 5.30 a.m. 011 the following day. The Bishop of Auckland, the Rt. Rev. W. J. Simkin, will deliver his charge at 10.30 a.m.

CHRISTIAN WOMEN Auckland's moral problems were discussed at a meeting called yesterday afternoon in the Pitt Street Methodist Church by the Auckland Council of Christian Women. Mrs. Alexander Hodge, who presided .- reported that the deputation headed by Mr. J. Victoi Macky which approached the Auckland City Council on the question of a servicemen's entertainment centre had been sent at the instigation of a former meeting of women. The meeting discussed voting on the drink problem,.and a resolution was passed almost unanimously that the council was of the opinion that all Christians should vote for prohibition rather than for State control.