PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 13 March 1934, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Edward Newman, C.M.G., is ia Wellington attending a meeting of the Government Bailways Board.' Mr. J. G. Moody, of Duriedin, whohas been visiting Wellington, will leave for the south tonight. ' ■/: • A motion of. condolence with the relatives of the late Mr. E. j. Mclliaith, for many years prominently connected with Eugby football, was carried at. the annual meeting of the, Oriental Football Club last night. • ..■"-■ The Earl of Wemyss arrived at Auckland from Eotorua on Sunday." 'rHe has been in the Dominion sines the-: beginning of the year, and will leave on his return to.England,by the Bangitane, sailingNfrom Wellington' on April 13. He is at'the-Hotel Cargen, " .The Key. Eil.B. Harries,' who has resigned the charge of St. James's Presbyteriaii/iChurch, Auckland, will leave early next month for Canada, where he will engage in evangelistic work. He hopes also to work .in the .United States, and later will go to Great Britain, where similar'work will be undertaken, l ' ; Mr. D. L. Thomson left Wellington, this morning .on a short business trip to Napier.. ;Mr. T. H. Easdown,'manager of .the National Bank of New. Zealand, Ltd;, at Auckland, who has been in London ia touch-with t^ head office of the' National Bank, has left for' New Zealand and is due here at the. end of nest month. Mr. Easdown, besides making contacts with banking authorities in the City of London dad meeting there the newly-appointed Governor of the New Zealand Reserve Bank; Mr. Leslie Lef eauk, has made time to take a flying visit to Paris/and Monte Carlo and the Eiviera. ' "'' " ■' Mr. Ernest George Short, whose death occurred last Friday,1 was born in "Wellington 52 years ago,' and was' the youngest son of the late Harry and Margaret Short, of Sugar Loaf Eoad, Brooklyn, both of whom were born in Wellington, the. former in 1842 and the latter in 1848. Before the Great .War Mr. Short followed the.occupation of a painter and paperhanger and was -well known in building circles. 'He left with the Main -Body of the N.Z.E.F. and was on: active service for two years and a half. He was invalided home after being ' severely " wounded and gassed.. In his younger days he:was prominent .in football circles and was identified .with the . Greytown and. St. James (Wellington) football dubs. He was' a member- of the Working Men's Club, the -Fifty Club,- and the Buffalo Club. In recent-years, he was care-, taker of the Maori Museum and a messenger at the Government Bnildings. He is survived by his widow, one brother, and two sisters. The funeral, which took place at Karori on Sunday, was largely attended. The services, at the graveside were conducted by the Be . Mr. Eobertshawe, of St. Mark's Church, while Mr. T. Willmot performed the rites on behalf of Buffalo Lodge.