PERSONAL

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. W. H. James, Hawera, is spending his vacation at Ngamotu beach. Mr. John Fraser, who was formerly on the New Plymouth Harbour Board’s staff, is visiting New Plymouth. Mr. R. Day, chief inspector for the New Plymouth Borough Council, has gone to Napier to attend an inspectors’ conference which will open to-morrow. Mr. j. G. McLeod, Hawke’s Bay, president of the New Zealand Racing Conference, is expected to be present at the Egmont Racing Club’s meeting on Thursday. Mr. F. W. Sutton, officer in charge of the stock division of the Agricultural Department at New Plymouth, who recently underwent an operation, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery.

Lord Londonderry, British Air Minister, who has been on a visit to the East, left Karachi by an Imperial Airways plane on Friday for England, a British official wireless message reports.

Owing to a marked improvement in his condition Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, Colonal Secretary, hopes to leave Nairobi on February 1 in continuation of his East African tour, says a Brtish official wireless message. The death of Lord Revelstoke at the age of 69 is reported by a British official wireless message. He was a director of the well known and long established financial house of Baring Brothers. Lord Revelstoke was a director of the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society and chairman of the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution.

The engagement of Mr. Walter Elliott, British Minister of Agriculture, and Kathleen Tennant, second daughter of Mrs. Geoffrey Labbock and the late Sir Charles Tennant, is reported by a British official wireless message. Miss Tennant is a half-sister to Lady Oxford, widow of the former Liberal - Prime Minister, Lord Oxford and Asquith. At the annual meeting and conference of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture at Palmerston North Mr. A. H. Shrubstall, Christchurch, was elected an honorary fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture. Two other nominations were received, these being Messrs. C. S. Longuet, Southland, and W. H. Rice, Auckland.

The death occurred on Saturday night at Wellington of Mr. D. Murray Kean, secretary of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association since 1920, says a Press Association message. Mr. Kean suffered a stroke some ten days ago when farewelling the New South Wales ladies’ tennis team. He was aged 53 years. He leaves a widow and a daughter.

The death has occurred of Mr. Patrick James Molloy, aged 59, well-known in acclimatisation circles, states a Christchurch Press Association message. He became a member of the council of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society in 1922 and was vice-president at the time of his death. He was a keen angler and did much to further that sport. He was a life member of the Addington Burgesses Association and a Justice of the Peace. The Wanganella’s passengers for New Zealand from Sydney include the Earl of Wemyss, Lady Angela St. Clair Erskine, Sir John Sandeman Allen, M.P. and Lady Allen, Sir Hugh Denison and Lady Denison, and Sir Thomas Henley. Other prominent persons on board are Mr. F. H. Stewart, Federal Minister of Commerce, Mr. R. Weaver, New South Wales Minister of Health, and Major C. H. Douglas, founder of the Douglas social credit scheme. Mr. William Goudie, died suddenly at the Wellington hospital on Thursday evening, following his collapse on a tramcar. He was one of Wellington’s best-known vocalists. Bom at Dunedin in 1881, he went to Wellington at an early age, and was educated at the Terrace school. On leaving school he served an apprenticeship with a legal firm in the city, and joined the staff of the Meteorological Office in 1909. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Meterorological Society, and at the time of his death was chief clerk of the Meteorological Office at Kelbum.