PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 129, 29 February 1928, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-REGAL. The Governor-General and Lady Alice Fergusson were accorded a most enthusiastic reception at Motueka by a very large gathering of the district yesterday. Although Nelson was not visited officially, Their Excellencies were driven round to the schools and colleges, where inspiring addresses were given. The Vice-Regal party left for Wellington last night.—Press Assn. The Postmaster-General (Hon. W. Nosworthy) will leave to-day for Cambridge to represent the Government at the Waikato Central Agricultural Association’s Show. The Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) left for Palmerston North last night'to open the Rotarians’ Conference. He will return to Wellington to-day, and to morrow he is to leave for Auckland to commence his tour of the Far North. The Attorney-General (Hon. F. J. Rolleston) returned to Wellington yesterday from Timaru. Captain Bovle, military secretary to His Excellency the Governor-General, left for Auckland yesterday. Dr. C. Begg returned to Wellington yesterday from Hamilton. Dr. J. H. Beaumont has returned from the Medical Conference at Hamilton and Rotorua. Major F. Lindsay, Inspector of Lloyd’s Agencies, is due in New Zealand shortly on a visit of inspection on behalf of the Committee of Lloyd’s. Mr. W. D. Stewart, New Zealand representative for Messrs. Dalgety and Co., returned from a business visit to Australia by the Maunganui yesterday. Mr. W. H. P. Barber returned from a trip to Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday. The death occurred at Auckland on Saturday morning last, after a sharp attack of pneumonia, of Mr. Keith Graham, second son of Mr. P. H. Graham, architect, of Wellington. The late Mr. Graham joined the staff of Messrs. Watkins, Hull, Hunt and Wheeler, public accountants, four years ago, and for the past twelve months he has been einploved by the Auckland branch of that firm. He' interested himself in sport, and was a member of the Old Bovs’ Football Club in Wellington and the' ’Varsity Club, in Auckland. The interment will take place at Karor* today. Under the system of exchanging teachers between the Education Department here and the British authorities, Mr. E. Worthington, 8.A., has arrived from Birmingham to take up the position at the Wairarapa High School formerly held by Mr. H. W. Slater, a brother of Dr. Slater, of Island Bay. Mr. Slater’s exchange school is the George Dixon secondary school, Birmingham. Mr. A. L. Hunt returned from a business trip to Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday.

Mr. R. A. Davies, a prominent solicilor and public man of Taihape, died of pneumonia on Monday evening. He leaves a widow and five young children. Included in the annual report of the Honorary Justices’ Association of Wellington, appears the following personal note from the chairman (Mr. F. G. Cray) “We desire to place on record our appreciation of the valuable service rendered to this association by our esteemed registrar, Mr, I. Salek, to whom we owe much of the success which lias been achieved. Opportunity was taken during the year to give tangible expression of our recognition of Mr. Salek’s work for the association (or some vears, and he was presented with a grandfather’s clock, with silver plate spitablv inscribed. He has also completed arrangements very satisfactorily in connection with tile forthcoming conference, to be held in Auckland in March.”