MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIV, Issue 12660, 21 January 1927, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

Mr E. Page, S.M.. has returned to Wellington after a visit to tho North. The Minister for Health (the Hon. J. A. Young) is expected back this morning from Christchurch. Colonel T. A. Hunter, Director of Dental Hygiene, who has been on a tour of Great Britain, returns to Wellington at the end of this month. The Hon. Dr. S. Argyie, Chief Secretary and Minister for Health, Victoria, is visiting Wellington, en route to the Medical Congress, which opens on February 3rd. At the conclusion of the congress, Dr. Argyie proceeds to America for the purpose of studying the most modern methods of hospitaJ construction, medical school organisation, and medical research. Messrs A. Morton, H. B. Stickney, N. Francis, C.M.G., and R. A. Rodger have been appointed Government representatives on the New Zealand Agricultural College Council. Other representatives are the Hon G. Fowlds, Mr. T. U. Wells (Auckland University), Sir James G Wilson (Board of Agriculture), Prof. T. A. Hunter and Mr P. Levi (Victoria Fniversity College). The Minister for Lauds (the Hon. A. D. McLeod) and the Minister lor Agriculture (.the Hon. O. J. Hawken) will leave this morning lor V aimarinc to make an inspection of the Hautu Block, near Lake Taupo, where land development operations have been undertaken by tne Prisons Department. Before returning to Wellington on Monday evening next, the .Ministers will also inspect other blocks of Crown land in the same locality. The death occurred at Church street, Palmerston North, yesterday of Mr Arthur Hylton Brisco, aged 79. Mr Brisco .was born m 1847, fifth son of the late Sir Robert Brisco, Bart, of Crofton Hall, Cumberland, England. He was educated at Rugby, and came to New Zealand in 1879. and in 1885 married Miss Jessie Campbell, daugter of the late Major Campbell, of Wellington. Mr Brisco farmed in the Manawatu district ever since he arrived in the Dominion. He is survived by his widow and four sons, Messrs Hylton M. Brisco (Matamata), Oriel A. Brisco (Wellington), Wilfrid a». Brisco, and Bertram 1. Brisco (Palmerston North), and seven grandchildren. The death took place yesterday at liis residence, White’s Lane, Lower Hutt, of Mr Thomas Mclntyre, who for over forty years was a member of the jobbing-room staff of “The Evening Post.” He joined the staff as tjie first apprentice of the late Mr Thomas Jones, in July, 1882, when the offices of ‘The Evening Post” were situated in “The Evening Post” lane (now Singer’s avenue, near Stewart Dawson’s corner), and during the whole of. his working life remained a member of xhe staff until September, 1925, when he retired on superannuation, at which time he was one of the trustees of tKS Typographical Union. He was well known in Masonio circles, and enjoyed a wide circle of friends. He leaves a widow and a daughter, Mrs lan Mackay.