MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12393, 12 March 1926, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

The Hon. F. J. Rolleston returned t# Wellington from Eltham last night. Dr A. W. Hogg, of Seatoun, who recently had to undergo an operation in a private hospital, is making a satisfactory recovery. Messrs G. W. Dowling, A. Luiham, W. L. Moore, and E. Rabbidge bare been elected members of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Mr R W. Bothamlcv, of Porirua, accompanied by Mrs Bothamley, left Wellington for Blenheim on Wednesday, and from there will motor to Dunedin.

An Auckland telegram reports the death of Captain Theodore Haultain, at the age of 74. He was for 40 year* in the service of the Northern Steamship Company.

Mr G. G. Aitken, the New Zealand Rhodes scholar, who returned from England recently, bos accepted an appointment in London, and is now on the way back to the Old Country. Captain S. J. Graham, British commissioner general at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin, is at present in Wellington on business. He expects to return to Dnnedin tonight.

Mr Robert Proctor, oF Dnnedin, who has been on a tour of the North Island, returned to Wellington on Tuesday, and left for the south by last night’s ferry steamer. At one time Mr Proctor was a noted footballer and athlete, and represented his province at Rugby.

A Press Association message from Hamilton states that the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister far Health, was accorded a civic reception here to-day to mark his elevation to tha Ministry. Later, the Minister opened the new Nurses’ Home at Waikato Hospital in the presence of a large gathering. The Minister left for Wellington tonight.

Detective H. Murch left Wellington this week to take charge of the Greymouth detective staff. On Monday ha was farewelled by the Wellington staff and presented with a suitcase by Chief-Detective R. Ward, on behalf of his colleagues. Detective Murch returned suitable thanks, and expressed regret at leaving those with whom he had been on such friendly terms. Mr and Mrs E. T. Taylor and Miss M. Taylor arrived in Wellington on Tuesday last, per s.s. Ulimaroa after spending eleven months' touring the world. They visited many of the principal cities on the Continent and in the United Kingdom, including Bergen, Brussells, Paris, London. Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Dublin, and Belfast. After a very enjoyable tour, Mr Taylor states he is pleased to be back in New Zealand, which, in his opinion, is the finest country in the world. Mr Taylor and his son Charles will be leaving Wellington on the 22nd inst. on- a visit to the Dunedin Exhibition.

The death at Now Plymouth of Mr Benjamin Leveriok Fox, at the age of 75 years, has removed a man who had lived all his life in North Taranaki, and was intimately associated with the days of the surf boats that landed passengers near the present 'New Plymouth railway station well ovor half a century ago.- Mr Fox is survived ‘by his widow, five sons, Mess's B. L. Fox (Wellington), H. T. Fox (Normanby), A. C. Fox (New Plymouth), H. V. Fox (Auckland), and D. Fox (New Plymouth), and two daughters, Mesdames T Gooch (Papakura) and A. Horne (Parnell).

■The Rev. Walter Harris, one of the pionerrs of Methodism in New Zealand, who died at Christchurch on Tuesday, aged 77 years, retired from active ministry a few years ago. and resided at Spreydon. His last charge was Addington. He came out to New Zealand from England as a young man to the Primitive Methodist Church in Auckland., he having belonged to that section of the faith until the union thirteen years ago. From Auckland he went to Christchurch, and was minister at the Cambridge Terraco Church. In the following years Mr Harris served his church in various parts ot the Dominion before he returned to Christchurch. A son of Mr Harris, the Rev. A. O. Harris, is in the Methodist ministry, and is stationed at Leeston, while mother son and a daughter ieside in Hastings.