Personal

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 34, 10 February 1930, Page 6

Personal

Mr G. Williams, of Wanganui, is on a visit to Auckland.

Mr G. Hanlon, of the staff of the Wellington Dental Clinic, was a visitor to Wanganui over the week-end.

Mr G. Handley, of Rapanui, who has been confined to his bed for a few weeks, has sufficiently recovered to be able to be about again.

The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. P. A. de la Pcrrelle) returned to Wellington on Thursday from the Rotorua and Taupo districts.

The Rev. A. J. Bock, vicar of St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Mount Eden, has resigned for health reasons, the resignation to take effect from April 30.

Mr H. Rose, father of Randolph Rose one of the most popular runners New Zealand has ever produced is to act as manager of the Wellington team at the Dominion athletic championships to be held at Wanganui in March.

Mr L. A. Paish, His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, paid a visit to New Plymouth on Friday and returned to Wellington on Saturday' night. He will leave Wellington to-day for Gisborne, where he is to address the Chamber of Commerce.

Major-General Sir Henry West Hodgson, whose death was reported in a London cablegram on Friday, fought under Viscount Allenby in Palestine with the Australian mounted forces. Major-General Sir Henry Hodgson was born in 1868, and was at Eton and Sandhurst. He entered the 16th. Hussars in 1889 and was a brigadier at the beginning of the war. He retired in 1927.

Guests at Foster’s Hotel include:— Mr and Mrs Charlton Dawson, Mr and Mrs E. A. Saxton (Auckland), Mr and Airs D. Reese (Christchurch), Mr D. Morrison (Hastings), Messrs E. and AV. McKillan, Air and Mrs E. T. Taylor, Mi and Mrs Hamburg (Wellington), Mr and Mrs Byron Baker (Sydney), Mr and Mrs Ruth Wilson (Now York), Mr and Mrs Upjohn (London), Mr S. G. Raymond (Tiniaru), Mr and Mrs W. Cook (Wellington), Mr and Mrs J. R. Ross (Napier) and Mr C. Best (Christchurch).

The following message has been sent to Sir Joseph Ward by Lord Craigavon: “On the eve of our departure my wife and I send our best wishes for your speedy and complete recovery. We desire also to convey to you and other members of the Government of New Zealand our warmest thanks for your many kindnesses. During our stay in the Dominion, we have learned a great deal and thoroughly enjoyed all wc have seen, and now carry away nothing but most pleasing recollections of your wonderful country and the ineffaceable memories of the loyal, hospitable, and generous-hearted people. ’ ’

The Right Hon. Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and Viscountess Craigavon, who left for Home by the Rangitata on Saturday afternoon, had a busy day at Wellington on Friday. In the morning they inspected, with Mr Elsdon Best (the Government Ethnologist) the Maori section of the Dominion Museum, being entertained later at morning tea by Lady Sidey and Mrs Bernard Wood, daughter of the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward). An inspection of Parliament Buildings followed, and Lord and Dary Craigavon afterwards called on Dame Christina Massey. In the evening they entertained guests at a private dinner. Except for a private luncheon engagement, Saturday was a free day.

The death of the Earl of Lathom, aged 35, is reported in a cablegram from London. Edward William BootleWilbraham, third Earl of Lathom, playwright and artistic house decorator, was born in May, 1895, and was at school at Eton when, on the death of his father in 1910, he succeeded to the title and the estate of about 11,000 acres at Ormskirk, Lancashire. On leaving Eton he became an officer of the Lancashire Hussars (Yeomanry) and after reaching the rank of captain went to India ns A.D.C. to the Governor of Bombay. On hig return he became associated with theatrical enterprises, his first being the production of a play founded on Miss Daisy Ashford’s book, “The Little Visitors,” in 1920. Meanwhile he had disposed of large portions of his estates for the sum, rumour stated, of £250,000. After financing theatrical ventures he began writing plays under the name of Edward Wilbraham, starting with “Ostriches,” which was given in 1925 at New York. His second work, “The AV ay You Look At It,” was produced at the Queen’s Theatre, London, 'in 1926, and attracted attention by the frankness with which it handled sex problems. His next play, “Wet Paint,” was met with an absolute veto by the Lord Chamberlain. Lathom afterwards produced two other plays, “Tuppence Coloured” and “Fear,” in the second of which he dropped sex themes in favour of psychological ones. As a whole, his plays did not enjoy long runs, but they showed that he possessed the gift of stagecraft. The earl had also a distinct leaning toward artistic decoration, and, while still engaged in play-writing, made use of it by starting a business for the improvement of the internal embellishment of English houses. Travelling frequently on the Continent and elsewhere, he collected all the best ideas and adapted them to the English home. One of his successrul assistants was Mrs Xenia Morison, a widow, whom he married in 1927, after she had been in his shop for a few months.