PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12008, 10 December 1924, Page 3

PERSONALIA

MINISTERIAL Sir R. Heaton Rhodes (Minister li» Defence) returns to Wellington on Friday morning, instead of on Saturday as previously intended. The Hon. J. G. Coates (Minister / Public Works and Railways) has returned to Wellington from the Sou-.’ Island. He will remain in Wellingtiuntil December IBth. when lie v leave for the north to spend the hdays. The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister : Labour. Mines, and Marine! retu . to Wellington from the South Is!;. - on-Sunday- morning next Mr D. Simms, of Gisborne." is Wellington. Mr Millen Paulin, of Wellingtc; left by the Tahiti for San Francisco. Mr Ramsey Wilson, who has been or a visit to Auckland, has returned tc Wellington. , Mr S. M. Spence, of New Plymouth left Wellington yesterday by the Tahit for San Francisco. , .Mr C. C. Odlin left Wellington.for Masterton yesterday morning, hut -will be hack in town to-day. .Mr R. E. Herron, manager of -tin city milk supply department, was or a visit to Otaki yesterday. 0 Dr. A. H. Molndoe, of Dunedin, is a passenger by the Tahiti, which left WeUington yesterday for San Francisco. Mr C. A. Mooney left Wellington by the Tahiti to" take over -the duties of sub-manager to the Union Ckthpany* at Rarotonga.' i > ! •t, Mr H. Baldwin has accent*#" the position of representative to the -Lower Huts Borough Council on. "the -. Hutt Valley High School Board. Messrs Hanna and King, Ltd., "sign, poster, and pictorial artiste, were yesterday elected members of the Wellington Industrial Association. Mb Els don Best, the well-known authority on Maori lore, will be the chief guest and speaker at a New Zealand dub luncheon on Wedneeday, the 17th inst. Mr F. Rundle. accountant on the staff of the South African railways at Johannesburg, is visiting New Plymouth. Mr Rundle, who is an old New Plymouth hoy, returns .alter an absence of twenty-two, years. "Mr L. J. Fincham, -employed by tha-Stratford Co-operative Dairy; Company at Tbko, was the victim of a -pdinFuT accident. He was replacing : a vat on a concrete block when it fell on his right hand, badly cradling his fingers. At the meeting of the Wellington Competitions Society last evening the past president’s gold medal was presented to Mr C. W. Bowden, tbe.retir■jig president, by his successor, Mr J. W. Carr. The Rev.. James MeCaw, of Lower Hutt, was elected Moderator of the Wellington Presbytery last night at, the monthly meeting of this "body. It is nineteen years since the present Moderator held such office, and his appointment was received with general pleasure. ' • A unanimous call has been .hy the Presbyterians of Petone to the Rev. John Charles Loan, of Taihape, to he minister in the suburb. The call , was sustained by Presbytery last night,_and the order is to he forwarded to the Presbytery of Wanganui, which control*,the Taihape area. Mr S. Potter (president) expressed great regret at the meeting of the WeUington Bowling Centre “J /*® sudden death that mornftg of Mr _HJessnp, a member of the Welhngton Bowling Club. A vote of condolence and symapthy with the relatives of the deceased was carried in silence. Dr. Allan GJ D. Fisher, **ho was a lecturer a* the University of Melbourne, has accepted the Chair of Economics at the Dunedin University. He^ received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the London University m October. Dr. Fisher, who is aged 28 years, will sail foj- New Zealand by the Mooitan on December, 19th. The Rev. J. A. McKenzie, has been appointed to the Plimmerton tenan Church by the Home OoWjqjssion Committee, and will oomioaace work in hie new sphere before Chnztmaa. Mention was made of this. »«t at the monthly meeting of the .Wellington Presbytery I®*, night, and pleasure was exprereed that the ittw. McKenzie will once more be m touch with his Wellington brethren. Mr Theodore Treziae. the well-known New Zealand theatrical producer, arrived back in WeUington last , week from Napier. -During his absence B»m Wellington Mr Trezise staged -the Wanganui amateurs’ ‘‘Gay Pansienne. and the Hastings amateur show. It-rs his intention to sail on Friday-hy ' toe Uhmaroa for Australia where he Will complete contracts .for a two. world’s tour, managing and producing.

Mr L. T. Watkins (president) stated at yesterday’s meeting of the _ committee of the WeUington Industrial Association that Mr J. P- S. Luke (a member of the committee) had been ordered away to Hanmer Springs for three months to recuperate. A resolution, of avmpathv was passed, expressing the hope that Mr Luke would make a good recovery; and the secretary was -instructed to convey the resolution to tan. -Mr Walter George Smith died at"bi9 residence. 87, Owen street, Wettrngtotr. Mr Smith, who was 71 yearetof-'nge. was a musician of no mean abmty, ana wae well known in musical circles- . In 1874 he married the second dangler of Mr George Hawkins, of H.M. Customs, and one of "Wellington s earliest settlers, who survives him. He also leaves two sons, Mr Walter George Smith, of San Francisco, journalist, and Mr Herbert Annedey Smith,., company secretary, of Morrinsvdle. ’ -

At the meeting of the Wellington T Bowling Centre last night, the president of the Dominion association (Mr y Meadow-croft) made reference to the death'of the late 001. R. J. GoUins, a past president of the Dominion Bowling Association, and paid a high tribute to him both as a bowler and a man. Mr S. Potter (president of the WeUington centre) also made feeling reference to the loss sustained by the Dominion Bowling Association in the death of his old friend. A vote of condolence and sympathy with his widow and family was carried in silence, all present upstanding. ,