PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12075, 28 February 1925, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-RECAL His Excellency, Lady Fergusson and suite, will attend the Opera House this evening, when Mr Lowell Thomas's travelogue, “.Romantic India,” described by Lieut.-Colonel Pottinger, D.S.U., will be presented. MINISTERIAL The Hon. AY. Nosworthy (Minister for Agriculture) is expected back in Wellington early next week. The Hon. R. 1\ Bollard (Minister for Internal Affairs) left Wellington yesterday by the mid-day express for the Waikato and Auckland. The Minister returns to Wellington early next week. Messrs T. K. Sidey and J. R. Corrigan, M.P’s., are visiting Wellington. Mr J. -McKay, M.P. for Hawke’-s Bay, returned to Hastings yesterday morning! Mr P. J O'Began, who has been on a professional visit to Auckland, has returned to Wellington. Mr M. A. Carr has been appointed to the Wellington Licensing Committee, in place of Mr C. W. Chilman, resigned. Mr G. Andrewartha, of Kilbirnie. left yesterday by the Maheno for Sydney, where he joins the Maloja for Ceylon. Mr W. G. Stead is returning to New Zealand by the Aorangi on her return trip from Sydney.—Press Association. Captain J. Abel will leave by the Aorangi to-day for -Sydney and Melbourne, where he will spend a two months' holiday. Mr A. Erskine has resigned the office of secretary to the Miramar Golf Club in order to make a trip to Australia and tile East. His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, has agreed to accept the i>osition of patron of Miramar Golf Club. Mr W. S. Spence, secretary to the Auckland. Racing Club, acoompanied by Mrs Spence, left Wellington for Sydney by the Maheno yesterday. Lord Maclay, the British shipping magnate, accompanied by Lady Maclay, arrived in Wellington from Botorua yesterday, and are staying at the Midland. Mr Charles Gray, of Ptikerua, has been elected an honorary member of the Miramar Golf Club in consideration of valuable help and advice on the course. The. Bev. S, Bobertson Orr left Wellington yesterday en route for the United States and Britain. With the Bev. A. T. Thompson, M.A., 8.D., he will be a passenger on the Aorangi. The death has occurred, states a Press Association message from Nelson, of Mr Walter Sanderson Curtis, aged forty years. He was a member of the Survey Department, and was press censor during the war. Mr Howard Jeffreys, of Nelson, has been accepted as a candidate for the ministry by the Methodist Conference, and will proceed to* the Theological College at Auckland for training. 9 Mr John Castle states that he has decided to contest a seat at the City‘Council table in April. Mr Castle was a member of the council in 1917-1919, and has been, secretary at the Wellington Zoo-logical-Society during the past fourteen years. Dr Campbell, medical officer at tin Waikari Hospital, who was recentl] granted three weeks' leave of absence or account of ill-health, has been granted extended leave for at least two months by the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Mr A. R. Charlton, who has been chief clerk at the Dannevirke railway station for the past three months, has left for Nelson'.to take up a similar position there, Mr A! E .Hargreaves, of that town, having been transferred to the head office at Wellington. Mr J. Pickard, who is at present on a visit to America and England in connection with railway business, has been appointed assistant traffic manager, Auckland. During his absence, the position will be filled by Mr W. Harding, stationmaster, Auckland. At the annual meeting of the Otago Law Society the following office-bearers were elected for the ensuing year:— President, Mr W. G. Hay; vice-president, Mr W. L. Moore;'treasured; Mr F. S. Brent; council, Messrs Brujjh, H. L. Cook* Callan, Irwin, Paterson, and A. C. {Stephens. At the advanced age. of 87, a very old resident of Watagamii, in the person of Mr James Nosworthy, passed t away. Deceased carried on the 'profession of herbalist for many years in Wanganui, and during the gold dredging boom eome twenty years ago he was an active promoter of several companies. Mr A. Stevens, stationmaster at New Plymouth, Has received advice of hia transfer on promotion to the position of stationmaster at Westport, and expects to take over his duties at an early date. Mr H. F. Mirams, traffic inspector for the Wanganui district, has been appointed stationmaster at New Plymouth. Cable advice bas been received by the University of New Zealand that Mr Bonal<l Syme, formerly of "Wellington, and now lecturer at the Auckland University College, has obtained M.A. with first-class honours in Latin, and certificate of proficiency, M.A. standard, equivalent to first-class honours, in Greek. Mr Will Lawson, the well-known An** tralian and New Zealand journalist, ac companied by Mrs Lawson, arrived ii Wellington by the Aorangi from Vancouver via Auckland. Mr Lawson hat for the past eight months been making a study of conditions in American new*paper and literary work. He intends watting at Wellington for the Tahiti before proceeding to Sydney. The death of the late Mr T. H. Shields, of Wellington, was recorded with regret in the president’s address to the confer, ence of'centres of the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association. The president (Mr W. E. J). Bishop) said : "Probably no man was more notable in swimming over such a long period of years than Mr Shields. His enthusiasm for the sport and his tremendous zeal in spreading a knowledge of the art, oarticularly among the school children, were known from end to end of the In his death the association has suffered a very severe loss, and 1 am sure that th»*'.'sympathy of all swimmers will go out* to the members of his family."