PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. E. A. Shrimpton, late chief telegraph engineer for New Zealand, will leave on a trip to Australia by the Ulitnaroa on-Friday next.

At the meeting of the council of the New Zealand Association of British Manufacturers and Agents held yesterday the following new members were elected: —Messrs. Henry Matier and Company, Ltd., Belfast (represented by Messrs W. R. Kirker, Ltd.), Mr. G. Stamp Taylor,. Wellington, Mr. Louis C Fama, Wellington. Mr. D. Gillies, of the bead office of the Treasury Department, has been transferred ’to Christchurch. During his residence in Wellington, Mr. Gillies took a keen interest in cricket, and did good work on the Third aud Fourth Class Committee of the Wellington Cricket Association. At last night’s meeting of that body the chairman (Mr. C. G. Wilson) thanked Mr. Gillies for the valuable services he had rendered to the game, and hoped he would carry on the good work in Christchurch.

English papers to hand record the death of Mr. Frank Wyatt, the wellknown English actor, who was the original Duke of Plaza loro in “Ihe Gondoliers” at the Savoy Theatre, London.

Mr. Hugh J. Ward, the theatrical entrepreneur, of Sydney, will arrive this morning by the Ulimaroa. He will be tendered a reception at the Midland Hotel this afternoon. Mr. Ward has not visited Wellington since well before the outbreak of the Great W r ar, but many will remember that- it was largely due to his great help and boundless energy that the city was provided with a Children’s Hospital, a fact that is testified to to-day by the two wards of the hospital being called the “Ward” ward and the “Wilford” ward (the latter after Mr. T. M. Wilford, who was Mayor of Wellington at the time). That effort was made in 1910, aud resulted in a sum amounting to about £lB,OOO being subscribed by the public. Mr. Ward’s work in the field of charitable endeavour has not been restricted to Wellington. He assisted with wonderful success to raise a large sum of money for hospital purposes in Perth, and during the war was chiefly responsible for the organisation in Sydney of the great Belgian Fund. Since he was last in Wellington Mr. Ward has been a director of J. C. Williamson Ltd., and more recently was managing director of the Hugh J. Ward Theatres Proprietary, in which he was associated with Sir Benjamin Fuller and Mr John Fuller. The chairman of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Council (Mr. R. W. McVilly) referred at last night’s meetin" to the dentil of Mr James'Doric, which had take” place since the Inst meeting. A vote of sympathy was passed, the. members standing in silence.