PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19736, 12 March 1926, Page 10

PERSONAL.

Ministerial. The Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, was accorded a civic reception at Hamilton yesterday to mark his elevation to the Ministry (reports a Press Association telegram). Later the Minister opened the new nurse’s .home at the Waikato Hospital in the presence of a large gathering. The Minister left for Wellington last night. An Auckland Press Association message announces the death of Mr Edmund Mahoney, solicitor, aged 73 years. The Hon. G. M. Thomson, M.L.C.. wag a passenger by the second express yesterday, en route to Wellington. Mr R. Jenkins, who has been on a three week’s visit to Dunedin, returned to Timaru by the second express yesterday. Mr Adam Hamilton, M.P. Wallace, was a passenger, en route for Wellington, by the through express from Invercargill yesterday. An Auckland Press Association message announces the death of Captain Theodore Haultain, aged 74. The deceased was for 40 years in the service of the Northern Steamship Company. The Hon. Mr Justice Stringer has been appointed chairman of the Prisons Board of the Dominion. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Stout retains a seat on the board. Mr D. Andrew and his son, Mr John Andrew, left by the second express for the north yesterday, en route to Sydney. It is their intention to attend tht New South Wales Royal Show, which will be held in Sydney at Easter. Lady Marjorie Dalrymple, a commander of the Girl Guide movement, who has been on. a visit to Dunedin, ieit by the second express yesterday for Oamaru. She will later visit the "West Coast of the South Island before returning to Great Britain. On Wednesday, Dr MacEachern paid a flying visit to the hospitals under the control of tie South Otago Hospital Board. He was met at Balclutna by the Hon. A. S. Malcolm, chairman of the board, and

after spending three hours in the new hospital at Balclutha, visited the institutions at Kaitangata and Milton, returning to Dunedin in the afternoon. The death occurred in Dunedin on Sunday of Miss Rachel Marion Scholefield, daughter of tho late John Hoick Scholfield (at one time head master of the NorthEast Valley School), and sister of Dr G.

H. Scholefield, of Mastcrton. Bom at Riverton, Miss Scholefield was educated at Milton, and resided there for many years. She went to England in 1908, and lived for some time in France. During the war she served in that country with the.headquarters of the American Expeditionary

Force. The funeral took place at Milton on Wednesday, the Rev. Canon Small officiating at St. John’s Church and at the graveside. . , , , After serving six years with the Auck-

land police. Sergeant John Fox has been appointed to take charge of the Westport police district. Six years ago he was transferred from Milton to Auckland, and when the Arms Act came into force in 1921 he was placed in charge of the Auckland Arms Office. The Auckland police have presented him with a set of cutlery and a walking stick.