MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12547, 9 September 1926, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

Mr Culford Bell has returned froll Greymouth. Mr J. H. C. Bond arrived from ths South yesterday morning. Dr T. A. Milroy, of New Plymouth, is visiting Auckland. The Rev. Mr Strong was a passenger by the Wahine from Lyttelton yesterday. A Sydney message announces the death of Judge Lindsay, of Honolulu, from heart trouble. The judge only arrived on Saturday on a health trip. The Rev. G. A. Young, of Taranaki, has been appointed vicar of Raglan He will be instituted at Raglan this week. Mr J. S. Middleton, manager of tbs National Bank of New Zealand, at Christchurch, rind Mrs Middleton, who have been on a visit to the North Island, left for the South last night. Mr E. B. Izard, Mr C. Hamilton and Mr R. P. Edwards, of Nelson, returned to New Zealand hv the Tofua aftet making the round trip of the Western Pacific Islands. The Rev. Stephen Wareing, of Alcestef, Nottingham, has been apjioiu lied curate to St.. Peter’s parish, Hamilton. Mr Wareing is expected to arrive in New Zealand in November. The Rev. D. Weatherall, of Singleton, New Sontb Wales, and the Rev. R. J. Thomas, of Sydney, Methodist ministers, arrived St Auckland from the Islands by the Tofna. They have been on a health-recruiting tnp. At a meeting, of the board pf th« New Zealand Trotting Association yesterday Mr J. H Williams was reelected president, and Mr H. W. Kitchingbam vice-president, states a Press Association message from Christchurch. The Right .Rev. Dr Liston, Co-Ad-jutor Catjiolic Bishop of Auckland, passed throiigh Wellington on his way tp DuUedin. He will preach the dedication sermon at .the opening of the Catholic Church at Outram and Ranfurly. The death has occurred of Mr Adam Blair, aged 75 years, the oldest member of tne Grey County Council. Ths deceased was a prominent sawmiUer, and ths oldest member of the Greymouth' Jockey Club. He arrived on this Coast in 1866 (states a Press Association message). The death .occurred at Palmerston North on Tuesday of Mr Charles A. M. Hirtsel, a veteran of the Maori War arid a survivor of the engage-' ment at Te Ngutu o to Manu, in which Von Tempsky was killed, states a Press Associatidi message Tim deceased has been curator of the museum foe many years.

- Mr W. J: Wakelin, who took up hil duties' on Monday as officer in cnargl of the Labour Department's office -i Christchurch, in succession to Mr A E. Waite, joined the department as s junior inspector in Christchurch is 1913. In 1916 he was promoted t* tike charge' of the TaraliaJri district. In. 1918 bo wa* transferred to Masterton, and spven months later was mtfted to second in charge in Dunedin, where for sik months he acted as officer in charge. In 1920 he was promoted to take charge of the Southland district, and hot since that tinm been -resident in Invercargill. Mr Waite was recently appointed to the position of chief clerk of theffepartment, in succession to Mr C. A. Boron else n, who was ‘ transferred to the Prim* Minister’s Department. Commander' A. Harsden, BlN.'. accompanied by' Mrs Mandeb,' intends ‘ to leave .England on November 13th on a worid tour, during which he will speak fat various places on the work of the Navy League and the necessity for maintaining an - efficient Navy. This information was conveyed ,in a letter received bv. the executive' committee of the Wellington Navy League yesterday from the league’s headquarters in Londqp Commander Marsden will arrive .at Sydney on December 23rd, and at Auckland on February 15th. Ha will spend k month in New Zealand, and will leave few Honolulu on Marqh 15th. The secretary of the Wellington .branch ha* been instructed to draw up a tentative itinerarv for the New Zealand tour, which will b* submitted for approval to the League’s various branches in the Dominion.