PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

Colonel the Hon. G. J. Smith, M.L.C., is visiting Wellington.

Mr. Justice Blair returned to Wellington this morning from Auckland.

Mr. G. E. Orr Walker, S.M., of Tiniaru, is at present relieving at the Wellington Magistrate's Court.

Mr. P. J. Shanks, who was recently appointed Chief Postmaster at Christchurch, has taken up his duties there.

Mr. H. E. Holland, Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, left Westport this morning for Wellington to take part in the Hutt by-election contest.

Sir Henry Euckleton, general manager of the- Bank of New Zealand, and Lady Buekleton, will leave Dunedin for Wellington to-day. -:

Mr. 11. H. Sterling (General Manager of tho Railways) returned to Wellington from the North on Saturday night.

Mr. W. L. Lowrie, American ConsulGeneral to New Zealand, and Mrs. Lowrie, have returned to Wellington from a three weeks' motor tour of the North Island.

Mr. F. C. Tregurtha, A.M.1.C.E., who was assistants electrical engineer and second in charge on both civil and electrical sides during the erection of the Waikaremoana hydro-eleetrie station, and latterly has been stationed .at Mangahao, is leaving the service of tho Public Works Department to take up the position of second engineer to the Newcastle City Council, Australia.

Mr. H. C. O'Loughlin left by the Limited express last night for Auckland, en route for England, to join the Eoyal Air Force. Mr. O'Loughlin was a prominent member of the Melrose Football Club, and was also a member of the Wellington Aero Club. He was a keen tennis player, and has taken part m several other sports.

At the autumn exhibition of'the Royal ■ Society of British Artists, now being held in their London galleries, Mr. H. Linley Bichardson, E.B.A is exhibiting examples of his work' in ngnre and landscape painting. . The Mayor, Mr. G. A. Tronp, is leaving by this evening's ferry steamer for the South Island to attend the Royal bhow, which is this year being held at Invercargi]]. Mr. Troup will return to Wellington in about a week's time.

Mr. T. J. Burton, of Lever Bros., Petoiie, will leave New Zealand towards the end of January to join the board of the firm in Australia, from where the New Zealand activities will probably bo governed in future instead of from England. Mr. Burton is president of the Wellington Manufacturers' Association.

Brother J. G. Hogan, from the head house of the Order of Christian Brothers at Clontarf, Ireland, representing the Superior-General, is at present on a visit to Dunedin. Brother Hogan has just completed a visitation of the Christian Brothers' establishments in the States of the Commonwealth of Australia, and his visit to the Dunedin Christian Brothers' School completes his mission to the Antipodes.

The Bight Rev. F. A. Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa, is now completing his first visit to the South since his appointment as Bishop to the Maoris. He is at present at Bluff, having jnst returned from a visit to Stewart Island.

Mr. T. It. Leithead, manager of the Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, is resigning his position at the end of the year after forty-one years' service, for twentyseven of which he has been manager of the mills.

Mr. A. W. Lipseomb, agricultural inspector at the Christehurch Technical College has been given leave of absence from Ist March till November, 1930, to investigate agricultural education in England and Europe. Mr. L. B. E. Deniiy has been given leave of absence for the same tiniei to enable him to study educational methods in England.

The Rev. J. Lawson Robinson, 8.A., after ten years' successful ministry at First Church, Invercargill, has accepted a unanimous call to the pastorate of St. Audrew's Church, Christehurch. Mr. Eobihson is the third son of Mr. R. H. Eobinson^ of Omahu road, Remuerx . . . ■ .

The death occurred on Saturday, of Mr. E. H. Stephens, a well-known member of the Kelburn Bowling Club, and a past president of the c]ub. During an interval in the play at tho Kelburn green on Saturday, the president of the club, Mr. P. H. Pope, referred to the death of Mr. Stephens, whose loss, he said, would be deeply felt.; Mr. Pope said the sympathy of the club, members would go out to the relatives-of the late Mr. Stephens. Formerly a member of the Petone Bowling.Club, -the late Mr. Stephens wa3 for some years in business as a bookseller and stationer in this city. He had been in indifferent health for the greater part of this year. Prior to, commencing the club games on Saturday over 100 members of the club stood in silence as a mark of respect.

The Bishop of Dunedin. has accepted the resignation of the Rev. G. E. Moroton in connection with the social work of the city. Mi-. Moreton has accepted a position in the Auckland Diocese as prison chaplain ana assistant city missioner on the staff of the Auckland City Mission. During the past 10 or 11 years Mr. Moreton has taken a prominent part in the social work of the city, more particularly in relation to the activities which he has directed from the Mission House in association with the Rev. V. Gf. Bryan King. He has also acted as chaplain of the Anglican Memorial Home for Boys, and during the disastrous floods of 1923 and the present year he was in charge of relief depot work. He recently returned from a tour abroad with the. Otago section of the Boy Scouts who attended the Imperial Jamboree.