PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 131, 2 March 1928, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (Right Hon. J. G. Coates) arrived at Christchurch from Greymouth on Wednesday night. He received a number of deputations yesterday morning, and will leave to-day on an inspection of the irrigation works of Central Otago. The Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) will leave Wellington to-day for the Bay of Islands. The Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., and Mrs. Hanan intend to leave on a visit to the United States and Europe on March 13. They will be absent for six months. Sir Alexander McCormick, who recently returned to Sydney from England, has been reappointed to the head office board of directors of . the Australian Mutual Provident . Society. He succeeded the Hon. R. J. Black, who has retired from the board and who for many years was deputy-chair-man of the board and also a director of the Bank of New South Wales. Mr. Black’s seat on the board of the bank has been filled by Sir Samuel Hordern. Captain J. E- Dawson (harbourmaster) left on a visit to Auckland by the Rotorua yesterday. Messrs. M. J. Savage, M.P. for Auckland West, and J. A. Lee, M.l. for Auckland East, were passengers from Wellington by last night’s Limited express. The death occurred recently at Darwendale, Southern Rhodesia, of Mr. Frederick Ernest Howard Harcourt, aged 53, the eldest son of Mr. J. B. Harcourt, of Wellington. Educated nt Wellington and Wanganui Colleges, Mr. Harcourt went to South Africa 111 1899 as a private in the Second Contingent and served through the Boer War. He -settled at Johannesburg, and was in business on his own account for several years. Afterwards he went to Southern Rhodesia tobaccoplanting. He paid two visits to New Zealand since the Boer \\ ar—the first in 1908 and the second m ne leaves a widow. Mr. S. Hurst Seager left for the south by the Maori last night. Mr. S. J. Sawell, who has resigned from the Union Company after nineteen vears’ service, was farewelled by the head office staff yesterday. Mr. Sawell is entering a business partnership in Wellington, Mr T H. Pagni, Vice-Consul for Italvj whose death is reported from Auckland, was an old resident of M eliington, .where for many years he was verv well known in the local world of snort He was an enthusiastic member of the old Athletic Club, of which he became vice-president and later he became one of the supporters and a vice-president of the Poneke Club For a time he was treasurer of the Wellington Rugby Union, and on two occasions went away as manager of representative football reams. lhe late Mr. Pagni joined the Government Life Insurance Department in June. 1885, and resigned from the service in 1902 in order to go in for hotelkeeping in Wellington, and later in Auckland. . , For . some t -’’mint’Tn Rehad been living in retirement in Keniuera. Mr G S. Lvnde, chief mechanical engineer, New Zealand Railways, will leave for Australia to-day He is going to Melbourne to attend the general officers’ conference of the Australian and New Zealand railways. Mr. Lynde has been appointed chairman of the conference this year. Mr. I. Alexander, of Sydney, who is a director of both the New Zealand and Australian Boards of the international Correspondence Schools, is at present in Wellington on his annual visit of inspection. . , Mr G MacMahon has been appointed a member of the Nelson Land Board.