PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 228, 21 June 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Lands (Hon. D. H. Guthrie) has arranged to leave for tho South’ Island on Friday night. He will biy* in Christchurch on Saturday and Sunday, and will then visit the Temuka and AVaitaki electorates. He expects to reach Dunedin on AA'ednesday, and will .spend two days there, dealing with matters affecting soldiers’ settlement.. He is to leave Dunedin for AVelli-iigton on Saturday, July 2.

During the absence of i the. Hon. E. P. Lee, who is shortly to pay a visit to Samoa, the portfolio of Justice and Police, will be controlled by the'Hon. AV. Downie Stewart, and the portfolio of Industries and Commerce by the Hon. G. J. Anderson.

“AVe cannot conclude," wrote the compilers of the Public Service Association's annual report, "without a reference to the loss sustained by tho promotion of Mr. R. A. AVright, ALP., Mayor of Wellington, Ims accepted the position of a vice-president of the AVellington’Navy League.

The death occurred yesterday of Mr. John M. Rabe, of 91 Owen Street, a very well known and highly-respected official of the AVellington city corporation. Mr. Rabe, who waS-Jn his fifty-ninth year, has been connected with street works in Wellington for some twenty-odd years, and was recently appointed overseer on the retirement of Air. J. J. ■ Kerslake. As a younger man he vras an active member of the AVellington Naval Atolunteers and was accounted one of the best rifle shots in that company. He was afterwards a member of the Old Navals Association for some years.

Captain Broadhouso, surveyor of ships, arrived from Australia yesterday by the Moeraki.

Mr. F. V. Frazer to the Presidency of the Arbitral ion Court. He was an eminently suitable man for the position he occupied and his influence, in the service and the results which arose therefrom will not be forgotten. The appointment of Air. A r erschaffelt in his stead is in our view a happy selection. It is worth placing on record that he is the first man to be selected from the general Public Service for the Commissionership or Assistant Commissionership. The association has always maintained that this position should be filled within our own service, and it is pleasing to record that the Government has at last realised the equity of our claim." Archbishop O’Shea, speaking at the Hibernian Society breakfast on Sunday, said that Archbishop Redwood was the longest-consecrated bishop in the world. One other bishop, still living m France, was consecrated in the same month but Archbishop Redwood was consecrated two days earlier, so he is. therefore, although not the oldest, the longest consecrated bishop in the world al the prepent'

Mr Sidnev G. -D. Butler, director ot Butlers (London) Ltd., arrived per s.s. Arawa on an extended visit to Nf« Zealand, and intends visiting all ihe principal centres of both islands. Mr. Butler has also l>een appointed a directoi of Butlers (New Zealand) Ltd., Cystchurch, and is the son of Air Ari ni S. Butler, of London; who paid a 1% visit to this country last year. Mr. But-, ler left England when the coal miners strike was at its height and r p that the .commercial conditions in the Home Country were beginning to brighten but Hie effects of Hie slump in trade were still very pronounced. The death occurred on Sunday at his residence. 59 Brougham Street of Mr. Harf Langdon, who has been-established in business in AVellington as a baker for many years. Air. Langdon was a member of the Victoria Bowling Club. . Air J A'xMacdonald arrived in Wellington yesterday to make advance arrangements for the J and N. New Comedy Company “Odds and End-.