PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

His Excellency the Governor^General will visit the Wellington West Coast Regiment in training at Trentham tomorrow morning. On Saturday ovening, . 25th instant, His Excellency will be present at the korero of the Wellington Orphans' Club in the Masonic Hall, Wellington terrace.

Sir Lindo Ferguson was a passenger from Lyttelton this morning.

Dr. W, Newlands, of Dunedin, arrived from the South this morning. The Hon. J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., was a passenger from the South-this morning.

Archbishop Averill arrived in Wellington from Auckland- yesterday,: and returns on JTriday. Mr. Edwin Dennis, one of the adjudicators at the recent Timaru Competitions, has returned to Wellington. Colonel J. E. Hume is at present in Wellington representing the Nelson Acclimatisation. Society at the conferonce.

Mr.. C. N. Baine, for fourteen years manager of the Wanganui branch of tho Bank of New Zealand, has retired. He was recently farewelled by business men in Wanganui, who presented Mr. Bailie with a silver salver.

.Mr. B. R. Ward, of the London University, son of Mr. L. E. Ward, of the Lands Department, is on a visit to his parents in Wellington. Having been awarded a special studentship by the "Royal Institute of Architects, he is proceeding to Italy in January next, to take up his studies at the British School at Home.

'Mr. S. Batchelor, who recently retired on pension from the position of manager of the Bank of New Zealand branch at Sydney, returned by the Maheno yesterday and will enter business on his own account at Wellington. Mr. D. Reid, manager of the Bank of New-,Zealand's branch at Palmorston North, arrived in Wellington by the Maheno yesterday from a holiday trip. At the annual meeting of the Federated Association of Superannuated Public Servants, the vice-president, who occupied the chair, proposed, and it was unanimously, carried, that &. sincere vote of sympathy and regret be forwarded to the president, Captain W. de R. Barclay, in the illness which prevented his being present. Members spoke in terms of high appreciation of the services rendered to the association by Captain Barclay, who has been president both of the Dominion and the local, branch since its inception, and he was unanimously re-elected to that office.

At the annual meeting of members of the Federated Association of Superannuated Public Servants yesterday, the vice-president (Mr. Girling-Butch-er, senior) reminded members of the loss the association had sustained during the year by the deaths of Messrs. Harold Christie and Hyde, who had for some years been active members of the Dominion executive, and had done eycellent work. The Executive Committee had already adopted and forwarded resolutions of sympathy with their relatives, and these were confirmed by the meeting, several present eulogising the energy and good qualities of the deceased gentlemen. -