PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 131, 26 February 1921, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Primo Minister is paying a flying visit to the Auckland district. He. is expected back in Wellington to-morrow. The Minister of Labour (the Hon. G. . Anderson) has gone to Auckland, and will be back here to-morrow.

The Minister of Lands, (the Hon. D. IT Guthrie) left for Picton last night on his way to Kaikoura and Chustchurch. •

The Minister of Education (the Hon. C J Parr), who has been making a tour of tho South Island, is due back in Wellington to-morrow.

Mr. Arthur Fair, L.L.8., who has been practising in Wellington for the last twelve months, has been appointed Crown Solicitor, in place, of Mr. 1. h. K Mac.assey, who has joined MessrsMenteath and Ward in partnership. Mr. Fair was for. several years on -active seivice, and prior to tho war was with Messrs. Chapman, Snerrett, Tripp, and Blair.

Mr IT. Pryor, secretary of tlhe New Zealand Employers’ Federation, is rather seriously ill. Tie was working in 'his office until after 6 p.m. on Thursday, and had indicated that he was not feelin- very well. Ou the way home he had a seizure, which necessitated assistonce being obtained to take him tb his home in Hntaitai. He was reported to be. a little easier yesterday. An old settler, Mr. Frederick Townshend, died on Tuesday at the residence, of Colonel G. T. Hall, C.M.G., C.8.E., Hobson Street. Mr. Townshend was born at Tooting, near London, in 1834, and left England in 1857, by the Maidstone,, for Alelbournc. After engaging in the gold mining in Victoria for two years, he came to New Zealand, and landed in Dunedin. From there lie went to Gabriel’s Gully, and knew personally Gabriel Reed. In 1861 he bought hind in Southland. While there, he married Atiss Frances Thomas, of 'Cheltenham, England. He retired from farming to live in Invercargill, where Mrs. Townshend died. He settled afterwards in Napier. For tho last twenty years Mr. Townshend had resided in Wellington, and was well known in" commercial circles. He leaves tho following family:— Dr. O. B. Townshend, of Marton; Airs. Hall, wife of Colonel Hall; and Mr. V. Al. Townshend, of the Treasury Department, Wellington.

As a token of the esteem in which ho is held by his fellow-workers, Air. J. Kier, who for the past thirteen years has been a member of the staff ot the -as department of the Lower Hutt Bor-ou-h. Council, and who has been granted six months’ leave of absence, to enable him to proceed to Scotland, was 1 hi> week- presented by Air. E. A. Gmnblo.v (borough engineer), on behalf ot the stall., with a smoker’s outfit.

Air G. Wildish, Alayor of Gisborne, and Mr. H. de Lautour, of that town, are visitors to Wellington.

Mr. James Marion, organism; and lecturer ’for tho. New Zealand Alliance, was taken seriously ill while addressing a meeting at Duntroon on Thursday night, and died there at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. The president of the. alliance. Mr. A. S. Adams, motored Mrs. Marion through from Dunedin during the night, arriving at Duntroon at 8 o clock yctoerdav morning, only to find that . i. Marion had passed away the tunera , at Oamaru to-morrow, will be conducted by Archdeacon Russell and the Lev. .. Dawson. Prior to coining to New Zealand in November last, Mr. Manon had been one of the temperance forces m Australia for many years For eight years he was general secretary of the New South Wales Alliance. lie was also one of the delegates to Jhe WorldLeague agminst Alcoholism in Washington in June, 1919. Mi. B G 11. Burn, formerly Mayor of Karori. and who has represented his old borough on the City Conned since the amalgamation, intends to be a candidate for t'he council at the April elections. Mr. J. W. Henderson, also of Karori, has decided not to stand. Mr.') C. B. Norwood will leave by the mid-day train to-day for Auckland on a business trip.

At last night’s meeting of the council of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association the resignation' of Mr. H. M. Gore from the. .Management Committee, of wjiich he was chairman, was received. A motion expressing regret at Mr. Gore’s decision and thanking him for his valuaUlrt services to tennis was carried with acclamation. The motion also expressed the hope that Mr. Gore's assistance to tennis would not be lost in t'he future.