PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 1912, 31 March 1920, Page 4

PERSONALS.

i The Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister of iAgriculture, was a passenger for Wellington by the ferry steamer last evening. Mr Allan Wilkie and Miss Frediswyde Hunter-Watts arrived from the North this morning, and are staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr Leonard Stowe, for many years Clerk of Parliaments, has been ill for ! sonse time past. The trouble, which was I the result of an accident sustained some i years ago, lias been accentuated of late. and it was found necessary to amputate a leg recently. Mr Stowe is making quite a satisfactory recovery. "During the last 40 years Mr F. Wilding, K.C., has been the one great pillar that has held up ami kept Lancaster Park for sport," said Mr S. F. Wilson, president of the Canterbury Rugby Union at the annual meeting of the union last evening. Mr Wilson was remarking on the debt which athletes owed both to Mr and Mrs Wilding for j their splendid work on behalf of the ! park. "We all know what Mr Wilding has done for sport on the field," he said, "but What he has done off the field has been far greater even than that." About 50 school teachers from all parts of the Grey district assembled at iGreyniouth on Saturday evening to bid farewell to Inspector J. A. Valentine, who has been transferred to Christchurch. Mr .1. F. Wilson, president of the Grey branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, said that as the first inspector since the merging of the two West Coast educational districts in the larger Canterbury district, Inspector Valentine had proved himself equal to the special difficulties of the stage of transition, and by his sympathy with the teachers, and his devotion to his profession, had endeared himself to them all, and had left his mark upon the cause of education in the district. Having removed from Christchurch, Mr F. T. Evans has severed his active connection with the" Canterbury Rugby Union. Appreciative reference to Mr Evans's work on behalf of the game were made at the annual meeting of the union last evening. "Mr Evans is one of the best men, without a shadow of doubt, that this province ever produced either in football or in any other game,'' said Mr S. F. Wilson, who has ' succeeded Mr Evans as president of the union. "He was a man to whom we all looked up, a man absolutely honest of purpose; and his departure marks a loss not only to Rugby football, but to the whole community. We congratulate him on his success in his profession, and hope that he will be absent from Christchurch only temporarily."