PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11255, 6 July 1922, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. Tbeli* Excellencies the eral and Viscountess Jelliooe ontcrtainod tho members of the British Empire Exhibition Mission at dinner at Government House Ust night. On Saturday, Their Excellencies v/ili attend the races at Trentham, and in tho evening His Excellency will present the prizes at the lloyal New Zealand Yacht Squadron s smoke concert. On the 17th inst. Their Excellencies will leave on a tour of tho Wairarapa and East Coast districts. Dr C. J. Reafces. Director-General of Agriculture, is in the South Island. Mr ,T. Vigor Brown, M.P. for Napier, is confinel to his home through indisposition. Mr J. Mayo, chairman of the Harbour Board, is at present on a visit to Wellington on harbour matters. Mr E. E. Gillon, chief mechanical engineer of the Railway Department, is in Canterbury on departmental duty. The Rev. E. K. Mulee, of St. Andrews. South Canterbury, intends to leave for England in the near future. Mr S. L. Free, S.M., who has been assisting in the magisterial work at Wellington, has returned to Wairarapa. Air O. J. Hawken, M.P. for Egmont, who has been attending the Hawera show, returned to I\ ellington last night* Mr W. P. Spencer announce* that at the next general election he will contest the Kaiapoi seat as a LiberalLabour candidate. A Sydnev cable message announces the death of Air Gordon McKinnon, the architect, son of Captain Gordon McKinnon, of Port Chalmers. Notice of his transfer to Geraldine has been received by Air F. H. Fish, who has been manager for the past 12 year® of the Lawrence branch of the Bank of New South Wales. Mr E. It. Brabazon, Collector of Customs at Wellington, will retire at the end of September. He will then, have served 41 years in the Customs Depart ment. Mr Alfred Mazengarb was yesterday admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court by His Honoop Mr Justice Reed, on the application of Mr O. C. Mazengarb. i Air Colin Alexander Hendry, of Master ton, civil servant, was yesterday admitted as a, barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court by His Honour Mr Justice Reed, on the application of Mr P. B. Broad. A Press message from New Plymouth records thejleath. of Dean McKenna, wha .had been 36 years in New Zealand, three of which he lived in Hawera and 38 in New Plymouth. Deceased was 65 years of age. The funeral is on Tuesday next. The Rev. J. F. Martin, of Fitxroy, Taranaki, received and aooepted a unanimous invitation to the Dundae street Church, Dunedin, to take effect from April next, subject to the approval of the conference, which meets in February. Mr O. H. N. Helmore, who .died in England a few days ago, earned much distinction on tKe football and cricket fields. He represented Canterbury as half-back against Otago in 1880-81-83-84-85-86, against Auckland in 1883. against Wellington in 1885-87, and against England (A. E. StoddarFs team) in 1889. He was a member of the New Zealand team which toured New South Wales in ISB4. and which won every match it played. Mr Helmore was a Fellow of Christ’s College at the time of his death, and was president of the Christ's Colleger Old Boys', Association, in 1911. He sat for some'time in the Diocesan Synod, _ and was a churchwarden and vestiVman of the parish of Rangiora, and afterwards ' of Alerivale. He was formerly captain of the Rangiora Rifles, and he held a’ number of semi-public offices while living in Rangiora. He was married in 1893 to a daughter of the Hon. Ernest Gray, of Hoon Hay, and is survived by his widow, one son. and two daughters. His younger son was killed in France. A gathering of the Christchurch Bar, held in the Supreme Court, Christchurch, on Monday, paid a tribute to the late Mr Helmore's memory. FIAT CARS.—Let ue show you tho latest in FIATS; three Models to choose from, any style of body.—STANTON'S, LTD., Atoleeworth street. Telephone 2240.—Advt.