MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12315, 9 December 1925, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., Is iR Wellington.

Judge H. F. Ayson. Resident Commissioner in Rarotonga, left by the Makura on his return to the Islands. Tho Mayor (Mr C. B. Norwood)' will leave Wellington this evening for Dunedin to open the Wellington Court on Saturday. The Rev. R. H. Knowles Kempton, minister of the Hanover street Baptist Church, Dunedin, has received and accepted a call to the Whangarei Baptist Church.

_ At a monthly meeting of the council of the New Zealand Golf Association held on Monday, Mr J. B. Mac Ewan was elected vice-chairman of the council.

Dr. T. H. A. Valintine, DirectorGeneral of Health, left for Auckland by the main trunk express yesterday. After conferring with the Auckland Hospital Board, he will return to Wellington on Saturday. The Rev. G. L. Harold, 8.A., who has been vicar of Amberley, Christchurch, since 1921, is returning ta England on six months' leave of absence. The Rev. E. N. Blakiston, vicar of llakaia, who is resigning his cure, will act as his locum tenens.

Mr .T. Myers is leaving for an extended tour abroad on Christmas Eve. Hiß fellow members of the Wellington Winter Show Association wished him a pleasant trip, and accorded him a hearty vote of thanks for his services as acting chairman. Mr G. W. Forbes, M.P., Leader oi the National Party, arrived in Wellington yesterday. He is proceeding to Feilding and Stratford to he present at social gatherings in honour of Messrs R. Cobbe and R. Masters, who were the National Party’s candidates for those two electorates at the general election.

Major-General Sir Donald McGavin, who resigned his post as DirectorGeneral of Medical Services over a year ago, and who has Eoent the intervening time in Great Britain, Europe, and America, arrived in. Wellington by the "Limited” express yesterday. Sir Donald McGavin is accompanied by Lady McGavin.

At last night’s meeting of the Wellington Presbytery the Rev. L. McMasters relinquished his position as Moderator, and the Rev. A. Allen was appointed in his place for the ensuing six months. The Rev. R. H. Catherwood lias decided to break the pastoral tie with tbe Kilbirnie Church, and to accept a “call” at Turakina. He intends to take up bis new position very shortly. Mr Henry Walker, whose death occurred at Wellington was an old and well-known resident of the city. He left Birkenhead in 1857 in the ship John Lucy for Sydney. After spending a few years in Australia. Mr Walker crossed to the Bluff in the schooner Spray in 1883. A year later he came to Wellington, and spent the rest of his life here. He is survived by a widow and a grown-up family of four daughters and two sons—Mesdames A. Wallis. A. Milligan. A. Bayfield (Wellington) .and Miss M. Walker (Sydney), and Messrs Frank end Henry \Valker (Wellington.) Mr John Gordon, Inspector of Permanent Way, Wellington, who is retiring on superannuation from the railway service, was farewelled by a large number of maintenance branch members. .Mr C. T. Jeffreys, district engineer, in presenting Mr Gordon with a gold watch, and with a dressing case for Mrs Gordon, said that Mr Gordon started his career in the Railway Department .it Dunedin as a junior platelayer in 1885, and was appointed platelayer in 1887. and. ganger in 1890. He was an inspector of permanent way in 1902 at Frankton .Tunation, and was shortly afterwards transfered to Wellington, where he had since been stationed for twentythree years. In that time Mr Gordon had gathered tin respect of every member of the service. Mr Jeffreys concluded by wishing Mr and Mrs Gordon long life and prosperity. Messrs W. B. Lee. C. W. R. Watson, A. H. Murison, W. Pirie, W. Farraker, H. S. McMath, and F. H. McCann also eulogised Mr Gordon and wished him happiness in his new sphere. Mr Gordon, in expressing thanks for the presents, said that during his career he had always afdmired the Railway Deoartment, and had done his best to obtain smooth working ns far as his branch wyts concerned. Tll this he had been ably assisted by his staff and the help he had obtained from time to time from the district engineer’s staff. (Applause.)