PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain L. C. H. Worrall returner! b.r' the Monowai yesterday from a holidayvisit to Australia. ' A motion of sympathy with the rela* tives of tlic late Mr. "\V. S. Hood waa passed at tlic annual meeting of the Wellington Mercantile Cricket League - last evening. Mr. .1. L. Hey worth, of Sydney, chair- . man of directors of Lover Bros., Ltd., ai rived in "Wellington yesterday by the Monowai on a business trip. 1 Mr. J. L. Hey worth, of Sydney, chair- , man of directors of Lever Bros., Ltd., ; arrived by tlio Monowai yesterday on L a short visit to Wellington. i The Mayor of Auckland, Mr. G. W. : Hutchison, will leave for Wellington i to-day to attend a meeting of the executive of tlic Municipal Association. t Mr. W. Waddcl, C.8.E., left Welling- • ton yesterday to attend a meeting of • the Hawkos Bay Rehabilitation. Com--1 mittce at Napier. ' Messrs. Henry Sclmeideman and G. , C. Burns (Dunedin.); Alexander Markyj [ (Hollywood, U.S.A.); E. Smnmer» ■ (Christchurch); Dr. S. A. Gibbs (Nel- ; son); and L. Steveus and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Fletcher (Auckland) are staying 1 at the Hotel St. George. ' The following are staying at the , Empire Hotel:—Messrs. A. E. Kemp (Cape Runaway); D. M'Naught (Te Araroa); H. C. Jones (Christchurch); E. Harding (Woodville); R. Lee, E. T. Diithie, and Misses M. Murdoch and M, Greenslade (Dunedin). Among the guests at the Boyal Oak Hotel are Messrs. W. E. Brown (Dunedin); C. M. Richwhite and N. Kent (Auckland); 1\ W. M'Caw and J. N. Macks (Marton). The death occurred at Masterton pa Saturday of Mr. James Reid, of Ponotahi, Carterton, aged SO. For many years Mr. Reid, who was an old settler of the Wairarapa, was engaged in farming at Clarevillo. Later he went t» Feilding and returned to the'Wairarapa several years ago, settling finally at PonotaM. He is survived by a widow aud a grown-up family. Mr. Iv. C. Keymer, of the Londoa firms of Messrs. Kcymer, Son, and Co., and D. J. Keyiner and Co., Ltd., is at present in Wellington. Mr. Keyiner is on a world tour, and has just como from Australia, having travelled Home via the Orient. When in Nepal, India ha was the guest of the Maharajah. Mr, Keymcr proposes to stay in New Zealand for a fortnight and then visit Canada and the United States. Mr. John Martyn died at Stratford on Friday at the age of 68 years. Ha was born at Dunstan, Otago, and joined the Police Force when 19 years of age, being one of those sent to arrest the Maori chief Te Kooti, at Opotiki, 44 years ago. He afterwards took up sawrnilliug and farming on the Teramakau Settlement and engaged actively; in public affairs. Mr. Martyn was a member of the Kumara Borough Council and the Kumara Hospital Board, and chairman of the Kumara Dairy Factory. He leaves a widow, three daughters, and two sons. A well-known figure in the wholesale confectionery trade, Mr. John Bigg, died at his residence, Seatoun, yesterday, at tho age of 79 years. He was boru in England in 1852 and came to New Zealand in IS9O, commencing business at Auckland a year later and beirif joined in partnership by Mr. J, H. Whittaker. Branches were established in the four principal centres, and the partnership was carried on until 1896, when it was dissolved and Mr. Rigg continued the business under the name of John Rigg and Co. The late Mr. Bigg retired from active business some years ago, leaving it to be carried on by two of his sons. Mrs. Rigg died about.two years ago. . . -' ■. ."' Changes in the staff of the Bank of New South Wales recently announced included the transfer of Mr. Camden Garrett, who came from Sydney less than two years ago to act .as manager of tho Christchurch branch, to tha managership of the Auckland branelu. Ho will replace Mr. W. J. P.- Hodgkins* who has retired. Mr. A. H. B. Jones, of Wellington, senior relieving officer for New Zealand, wH be the new Christchurch manager. Tho' account-ant at the Christchurch branch, Mr. A. I. E. Jones, will leave on 2nd October to take up a position at the head office of the bank in Sydney. The chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board (Mr. H. J. Otley) and the secretary (Mr. W. S. Wharton) will leave for Wellington to-night to give evidence before the committeo which is considering the application presented by the unemployed for th» abolition of the system of work in return for rations. The death occurred at the East Gora Hospital last week of Mr. Harold Hops ■ Billing, who for the past three years was a member of the staff of the' Gore branch of the Bank of New South Wales. Mr. Billing was born in Tasmania in 1900, and with his parents later resided in Wellington. He was educated at Wellington College, and joined the Bank of New South Wales in 191 G. He subsequently served at, Edendalc and Jnvercargill, and joined the Gore branch in 1927. He was a member of the Gore Orchestral Society, of which he was secretary during the past year, and was also a prominent member of the Congregational Church. In 1925 he married a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Betten, of Wellington. The late Mr. Billing, who was a son of Mr. Phil B. Billing, of Wellington, is survived by his widow aud three yonnsr children. The popularity of Mr. E. Douglas Tayler, F.R.C.0., A.R.C.M. (Eng.), the Education Department's Supervisor of School Music, was clearly shown on Friday evening last by the large number of fellow-members of the Depart-, nicnt who assembled to give him aa official farewell. The Director of Education, Mr. T. B. Strong, expressed his appreciation of the valuable work don« by Mr. Tayler during, his five years' tenure of office in placing the teaching of music in the four training colleges on a thoroughly satisfactory footing. Although on account of the large number of schools in the Dominion it had been quite impossible for him to visit them all, Mr. Tayler had been a great help to teacher?, and had effected a marked improvement in the standard of school music. Mention was made of the willingness shown by both. Mr. and Mrs. Tayler to assist at the- Department's social gatherings and in-. connection with the arrangements for children's concert?. The Director, in making a presentation to Mr. Tayler on behalf of "the. Department's head office staff of two bowls made of New Zealand woods, conveyed to him the good wishes of all for success in connection with his future work in California. Mr. Tayler and his family sailed from Wellington to-day by the Monowai for Saa Francisco.