PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 27 July 1929, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Wainui House visitors include: Miss H. C. Hunt, Mr P. Cutforth, Mr H. E. Kyfe, Mr M. Ongley, Air C’. Hickmott (Wellington) ■ Mrs Brown (Dunedin). The Rev. Fred. C'. Every, who for the past four years has been the Pastor of the Baptist Church at Richmond,, has resigned and terminates his ministry there at the end of the present month. Failing health has suggested the wisdom of taking this step, and Mr Every hopes that, with a complete change'of environment and the cessation of all pastoral responsibilities, he will/soon recuperate Ins strength sufficiently to resume active duties elsewhere. His farewell sermon will be preached in Richmond on Sunday evening next-. The Rev. \V. S. Rollings, who is now relieving in Nelson, has agreed ito serve the Richmond Baptist Church for a period of six months from the first of August. Air A. Adams, the president- of the New Zealand Rugby Union, is at present. in Nelson as manager of the WestCoast Rugby football team. That he is tlie oldest gold miner living in the 1 British Empire ip the proud claim of John Lishman Potter, who celebrated bis ninety-fifth birthday this week. Air Potter, who now resides at Timaru, was bom at Sunderland, England, in 1834, and at the age of twenty participated in the battle between the military and the miners at Eureka stockade, near Ballarat. He was at Gabriel's Gully in 1861. and took part in other rushes in New Zealand and Australia.— Press Service.