PERSONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 1 June 1923, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Mr H. C. Cameron left Timaru for j .Christchurch yesterday. Miss McGougan, the Canadian teacher, who left Temuka yesteiday afternoon by the express going no , was farewelled at the station by a very large number of friends. Mr W- J. Poison (Dominion President of the New Zealand Farmers Union), arrived in Timaru from Wellington yesterday. Sir James Wilson, who has been reelected chairman of the Manawatu County Council, is entering upon his thirtieth year as a member of that local body. Mr W. Saunderson Cooper, who lately held the position of Resident Commissioner, Savaii, has returned to New Zealand on three months’ furlough, after an official connection with Samoa of two and a half years. I'. Advice has been received by the Auckland district Boy Scout Commissioner that Sir Alfred Pickford, overseas commissioner of Boy Scouts, will arrive in Auckland from Sydney by tbe Manuka on Tuesday, June 4. Mr J. Carne Bidwill, of Featherston, a member of the Wairarapa (Rototawai) Golf Club, and holder of the Wellington provincial golf championship, has decided to contest the Australian open and amateur championships this season. A Palmerston North message announces the death, at Waipukurau Sanatorium, of Mr H. Karl Laurenson, late assistant manager of the Paramount Service, who went away with the Fifths. He was a well-known entertainer at the front, and was wounded at Suvla Bay. A .Wellington Press Association message received last evening - states that the Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister for Railways and Lands, has greatly improved in health and.is convalescing at bis" home at Paekakariki. It is not likely that he will take his place in parliament during the next session, and it will probably be some considerable time before he resumes ministerial duty. The death occurred at Waihi last week of Mr William Crawford Brown, in . his seventieth year. He retired from the position of manager of the National Bank of Waihi three .years ago, after being for- upwards of fifty years in the bank’s service, which he joined in Dunedin. He held a commission in the Imperial Army and took part in the battle of Majuba Hill in 1881. Mr F. Macpherson, a London journalist, and Mrs Macpherson, who have been visiting Christchurch and Dunedin, left for Wellington on Tuesday evening. Mr Macpherson was for several .years foreign editor of the “Daily Mail.” He thinks that Fleet Street’s knowledge of the dominions is inadequate and hopes to do something to repair the deficiency. After spending a couple of weeks in the North Island, Mr and Mrs Macpherson will visit Australia, and after that, Canada.