MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12291, 10 November 1925, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

MINISTERIAL The Prim© Minister, the Hon. J. (J. Coates, will leave for the south on Thursday, visit the Royal Show at Christchurch on Friday, and on the following Tuesday will attend the opening of the exhibition at Dunedin. Tbe Hon. R F. Bollard returned to Wellington yesterday. Tbe Hon. G. J. Anderson will he back in Wellington to-morrow. The Hon. C. J. Parr has returned to, Wellington. The Hon. A. D. McLeod went to bia home in the Wairarapa for the weekend, but will return to Wellington today. Commander Peters, of H.M.S. Dunedin, has arrived in Wellington from the south. The Hon. J. Craigie, M.L.C., was a passenger by the Wahine from Lyttelton. Mr C. M. Turrell, acting-Dominlon Superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, has returned to Wellington from Lyttelton. The Hon. Sir Francis Bell (AttorneyGeneral), is visiting the South Island. He is expected hack in Wellington this week. Mr Charles Allen, son of Sir James Allen, won the Bronze medal, the highest award for poetry by the Panton Club.—Sun Cable. v A Press Association message from Nelson reports the death of Mr Noel Lee Buchanan, a well-known citizen, aged 78 years.' The Rev, Dr. Pinfold, secretary of the Wellington Ministers’ Association, who is visiting Marlborough, will be . away from Wellington for a week or two. Mr R. W. McViUv, late general manager of railways, left by the main trunk express yesterday for Auckland, en route to Sydney, where he will spend some weeks. Dr. Roberta Jull, medical officer of schools and director of infant welfare. Western Australia, haß- returned to Wellington, after visiting Auckland. Dr. Jull has come to New Zealand to inquire into. the working of the infant welfare division of the Health Department, the Plunket organisation, and the dental clinics. Mr W. H. Booth, of the Carterton A. and P. Association, was in. Wellington yesterday on Ins way to Christchurch, where he is attending a meeting of the New Zealand Jersey Breeders’ Association.' If time permits he will probably go on to Dunedin for two or three days to look round the exhibition. Mrs Booth is accompanying him, and they left by the ferry last night. Colonel R. A. Chaffey, C.8.E., died on Sunday, at Rotherham, Canterbury, aged 69 years, states a Press Association message. He was educated in England, and trained for the Army, but for health reasons came to New Zealand in 1878, and engaged in farming. Ha commanded the North Otago - Hussars from 1887 to 1895, and the Atnhri Mounted Rifles in 1901. As brigadier-general he commanded the Canterbury • Mounted Rifle Brigade, and subsequently was promoted to the charge of the Canterbury Military District, from 1914. to 1919. Messrs J. Wray, and J. Alexander, • members of the .Board of Directors or the- International Correspondence Schools (Australasia), - Ltd., ! arrived; from Sydney by the Tahiti accompanied by Mrs Wray. The object of their visit is to make the necessary arrangements for the future conduct of the New 'Zealand branch, in /view of the resignation of Mr J. G. Smith, who has acted as glneral manager in New Zealand for the past 23 years. For private business reasons Mr Smith is relinquishing the active control of the business, hut he will’continue, to act as a member of the Australasian Board of Directors. A conference of the New Zealand district agents will be held in- Wellington to-day, and on Wednesday evening Messrs Wray and Alexander, the New - Zealand district agents, and the head office staff, will be entertained at dinner by Mr J. G. Smith. Mr W. J. Nix, of Tauherenikau, who died after a short illness, was a pioneer of Wairarapa. The late. Mr Nix was born in the ship Royal Albert. at the Wellington Heads on May 30th, 1553. His parents resided at the Hutt for a few months, later removing to the Wairarapa. They established their home at Tauherenikau, where deceased had resided ever since. He thus saw 72 years of Wairarapa’s development from a well-bushed plain to one of New Zealand’s most thriving pastoral and dairying districts, states the "Wairarapa Age. To the Wairarapa Racing Club Mr Nix gave long and faithful service. He was one of its oldest stewards, a past vice-presi-dent and its first patron, an office that was conferred on him last year in recognition of his past services. Deceased was a member of the Touherenikau school committee for 32 years, 21 of which be was chairman. Entering tiis - old Featherstoo Road Board in 1889, deceased was a member until the board merged with the Featherston County Council, on which he served almost continuously until his resignation in 1923. He was also an active member of the Featherston Bowling Club.