PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 101, 1 May 1930, Page 15

PERSONAL ITEMS

Messrs. H. E. Holland, M.P., P. Eraser, M.P., ana W. Nash, M.P., left for Auckland last night to take part in the Parnell by-election. Dr.'A. F. Maekay has arrived from London via Australia on a visit toi his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Mackay, of Karori, before proceeding to his duties in the Malay Federated States. , ' Mr. F. Murdoch, M.P., Chief Go-wern-ment Whip, Vh? arrived in Wellington yesterday morning in connection -"with the preliminary sitting of the Stops and Offices Act Invesigation Committee, returned north by tho Main Ti-unk express this afternoon. : Officers of the Wellington Sa."vage Club for the ensuing year were etected at the annual meeting as follows: — Chief Savage, Sir Alexander Bolierts; deputy chiefs,, Messrs. J. Hislop, A. W. Newton, Dr. Arnold Izard, ' and Mr. Barton Ginger; council, Misssrs. J. £arr, O. N. Gillespiey N. Issac,'*' Dr. Isaacs, Messrs. $.'.. J. Peare, E. B. Vance, and W. G. "Waitchopc; musical, director, Mr. 2)r.ank Thomas; dramatic director, Mr. Barison Cook; secretary/Mr. B. K. Ijyon. News has been received of the .death in England of Mr. James Dykes, formerly of Wellington," who has been in England in tho employ of the .Dairy Board for several years. The laic. Mr. Dykes came to Now Zealand froim the Old Country j about twenty yeaitis • ago. After holding a position in the- Bank of Now Zealand in ChristchurcSi and then in Wellington, ho set up iii: business on his own account as a CQ>mmission agent, subsequently becoming a partner in the firm of Gnaltor, Dykes, and Co. He assisted in the Neir Zealand Court at the Wembley Exhibition, and was later employed by the Dairy Board in arranging exhibitions of Now Zealand dairy produce in various centres. Whtfn in Wellington the late Mr. Dykes was widely known ac secreI tary of the Wellington Savagija. Club. j!He himself was a talented performer and a capable organiser of enliertainments. Ho married Miss BeU<> Mcc, daughter of thq late Mr. George Mcc, of. Wellington terrace.