MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12283, 31 October 1925, Page 4

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

VICE-REGAL j Their Excellencies the Govemoj- | General and Lady Alice Fergusson and i suite will arrive at Christchurch from ; Timaru on Saturday, October 31st, by | the 7.5 p.m. train, and will stay at the Clarendon Hotel. At 2.30 p.m. on J Sunday the Governor-General will unveil the Soldiers’ Memorial at New Brighton, at which there will be a parade of Territorials and returned soldiers On Monday morning, November 2nd, Their Excellencies will visit the hospital and Rannerdale Home and other institutions under the control of the Christchurch Hospital Board, and in the afternoon, at 3 o'clock, the Gover-nor-General will perform the opening ceremony of the Cashmere Fresh Air School, and later will dine with the members of the Canterbury Officers’ Club, while Her Excellency attends a reception to be given by the Eroica Club at the Jellicoe Hall. Among other engagements on Tuesday, November 3rd, Their Excellencies will visit Canterbury and Christ’s Colleges in the morning, and the Gov-ernor-General will be present at the luncheon of the Christchurch Rotary Club and at a dinner given by the members of the Royal Colonial Institute at the Canterbury Club. On November 4th, Their Excellencies leave for Dunedin. Later in the month, the GovernorGeneral will attend an Armistice Day gathering of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Association, and on the following day, November 12th, will visit tho Royal Agricultural Society’s Show. Mr Frank Dyer left for Tanpo yesterday for the purpose of fishing. ” Mr Justice Galt, of Winnipeg, was a passenger by the Tahiti for Sydney. Mr E. R. Myers, of the Public Health Department, leaves for Dunedin to-night. Mr J. O. Anderson, of Davis Cup fame, who left for Sydney yesterday,

contemplates bringing to the Dominion a strong New South Wales tennis Bide. Before liis departure Mr Anderson was presented with a handsome Petone rug.

Mr Herbert Richmond, of Messrs J. B. Were and Son, sharebrokers, Melbourne, who is touring New Zealand, and has been staying at the Midland Hotel for the past few weeks, left by the s.s. Wahine last night for Christchurch.

Colonel T. W. McDonald, deputychairman of the Wellington-Nelson provincial court of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, will represent the committee at the official opening of the exhibition at Dunedin on November 17 th.

Mr F. Wackrow, who died at Johnson ville, arrived in Wellington in March, 1873, in the snip Forfarshire. Shortly afterwards lie settled in Pelorus Sound, taking up timber milling. Some six years later he came to the North Island, settling in Ohariu Valley; and he farmed his land there some ten years ago, when he sold his farm anrl settled in Johnsonville. The late Mr Wackrow left a wife, three sous, and eight daughters. He was a very keen bowler.

A pleasing function took place recently, when Mr William Hopkirk, of the firm of McLeod, Weir, and Hopkirk, was entertained at luncheon by the timber merchants of Wellington at the Y M.C.A. rooms, and made the recipient of a very handsome grandfather’s clock. as a token of the esteem in which he is held bv his fellow-merchants. Mr J. J. Clark, who commenced his business career under Mr Hopkirk, made the presentation. and his remarks were ably endorsed "by Messrs Haslam, C. Ballingall, Stone. Reid. Quirk, Rough. Matthews. and A. Odlin. Mr Hopkirk feelingly responded, and the proceedings closed with the singing of the National Anthem.