PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Lands (the Hon. G. W. Forbes) returned from the South last night. To-night he will leave for Palmerston North, to attend the laying of the foundation stone of Massey College to-morrow. The Hon. W. B. Taverner (Minister of Railways) returned from Rotorua to-day, and the Hon. E. A. Ransom (Minister of Public Works) from Daunevirke last night. Tho Hon. P. A, de la Perrelle (Minister of Internal Affairs) will return from the South to-morrow.

Mr. H. H. Sterling, General Mana^ ger of New Zealand Railways, returned this morning from the North.

The Hon. Sir E. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., and Mr. J. Rhodes have left on a visit to Melbourne.

Mr. Alexander Edward A. Watkins, of the Public Works Department, Wellington, has been appointed electrical engineer to the borough of TimaTU. There were 40 applicants for the position, states a Timaru Press Association telegram.

Major-General E. Young G.0.C., New Zealand Military Forces, returned from Christehurch to-day. He left1 later for Palinerston North to attend the unveiling of the New Zealand. Medical Corps War Memorial.

Mr. H. J. Williams, M.A., son of the Eov. H. Williams, of Opawa, is to be ordained this Advent by the Bishop of Dunedin, and will go to Oamaru as curate to Archdeacon Russell. Mr. Williams has been a student at Selwyn College for some time.

The Rev. J. L. Greer, of Auckland, has accepted appointment as Chaplain [of Samoa for three years. The Eev. A. C. Hobson, of- the Diocese of Oxford, who came out for a year to help Polynesia, and has now returned, has spent the last five months in Samoa, and, Bishop Kempthorne says, "has clearly demonstrated the need for a permanent chaplain."

Professor W. H. Gould, of Victoria College, who is on a tour of the world studying methods of education in various countries, was in Washington in November. He visited numerous American universities, notably the University of Chicago and Columbia University in New York, and also observed elementary and secondary schools. He left New York on the Cransylvania for England on 9th November, and after spending some time there and in other European countries, will return to New Zealand by way of the Suez Canal.

The Key. Peter W. Jones, a retired minister of the Methodist Church of [New Zealand, was found, dead in his chair at his residence in Feilding last [evening by the Eev. Fred Copeland. I The deceased, who was 85 years of I age, lived alone, and as he was absent from church on Sunday, Mr. Copeland went to his home, and found that he had passed away. The late Mr. Jones came to New Zealand in 1876 as minister of the. old Primitive Methodist Church, and was stationed in the Manawatu circuit. After two years there, he was transferred to Auckland, but returned to Manawatu again one year later. Subsequently he ministered at Greendale, Wellington, Christehurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, ' Timaru, and Feilding. In 1901 he retired permanently, and took up his residence in Feilding. He continued to take part in church work, and was present at the Hawkes Bay-Manawatu . Synod, held at Hastings in November, where he participated in the debates, and interested the members with many reminiscences of the early days in New Zealand. He was twice president of the conference of the Primitive Methoaist i Church, in 1886 and in 1899.