PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1926, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL. Their Excellencies tho Governor-Gen-eral and Lady Alice Fergusson will visit Marsden School, Karori, at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, 28th September, when His Excellency will formally open the new buildings.

Mr. Culford Bell returned from Greymouth this morning. Mr. J. H. C. Bond arrived from the South by tho Wahino this morning. Tho Rev. Mr. Strong was a passenger by the Wahino from Lyttelton this* morning. Tho Right Rev. Dr. Liston, Co-Adju-tor Catholic Bishop of Auckland, is on a visit to Wellington. A Sydney message announces the death of Judge Lindsay, of Honolulu, from heart trouble. The Judge only arrived on Saturday on a health trip. The death has occurred of Mr. Adam Blair, aged 75 years, the oldest member of the Grey County Council. The deceased was a prominent sawmiller, and the oldest momber of tho Greyniouth Jockey Club. He arrived on the Coast in 1866 (states a Press Association message). Tho death occurred at Palmerston North last evening of Charles A. M. Hirtzel, a veteran of the Maori War and a survivor of the engagement at Te Ngutu o te Manu, in which Yon Tompsky was killed, states a Press Association message. The deceased has been curator of the museum for many years. Mr. W. J. Wakelin, who took up his duties on Monday as ■ oflicer in charge of the Labour Department's office in Ghristchurch, in succession to Mr. A. E. Waite, joined the Department as a junior inspector in Christehurch in 1913. In 1916 he was promoted to take charge of the Taranaki district. In 1918 ho was transferred to Masterton, and seven months later was promoted to second in charge in Dunodin, where for six months he acted as officer in charge. In 1920 he was promoted to take charge of the Southland district, and has since that tinjo been resident in Invorcargill. Mr. Waite was recently appointed to the position of Chief Clerk of tho Department, in succession to Mr. C. A, Berendsen, who was transferred to tho Prime Minister's Department. Commander A. Marsdon, R.N., accompanied by Mrs. Marsdon, intends to leave England on 13th November on a world tour, during which he will speak at various places on the work of the Navy League and the necessity for maintaining an efficient Navy. This information was conveyed in a letter received by the exeeutivo committee of the Wellington Navy League yesterday from tho Leaguo's headquarters in London. Commander Marsden will arrive at Sydney on 23rd December, and at Auckland on 15th February. Ho will spend a month in New Zealand, and will leave for Honolulu on 15th March. The secretary of the Wellington branch has been instructed to draw up a tentative itinerary for the New Zealand tour, which will be submitted for approval to the League's various branches in the Dominion.