MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 4

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

MINISTERIAL The Minister for Lands (Hon. Mr McLeod) will return from Auckland to Wellington to-day. The Minister for Defence (Hon. Mr Rolleston) left Wellington for the South last night. Ho will return on Tuesday. On the motion of Mr G. G. Rose, Clarence W. Irvine was yesterday admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court by his Honour the Chief Justice. A Press message from Dunedin states that Mr M. Connelly, who contested tho Port Chalmers seat for Labour in the General Election, has received from the Railway Department an offer of reappointment to his former position as guard in the service. Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M.. has been authorised to exercise jurisdiction in the Children’s Court at Palmerston North and Levin. Dr. G. S. Sharp, of Otaki, left Wellington yesterday by the Ulimaroa en route for the Old Counrty. He expects, to be away 18 months, during which he intends to take a postgraduate course at Home. Tlie recent death of Mr E. J. Greenstreet. architect, of Christchurch, was referred to at the annual meeting of. the Wellington branch of the Institute of Architects. The chairman (Mr S. W. Fearn) said that the late Mr Greenstreet was one of the institute’s most highly respected and popular members. A resolution expressing sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr Greenstreet was passed. The death has occurred of the Bev. H. H. B. Winsbury White, at the age of thirty-nine years. The deceased was one of the most popular padres at Trentham Camp and Featherston during and after the war, and was the last chaplain to be demobilised. Prior to that he was vicar of the Blenheim parish. After his camp service he was appointed to the parochial district of Waikou&iti. For some months prior to his death he Was working in the social service department of the Anglican Church in Dunedin. He is survived by a wife and one child.

The death occurred on Thursday ol Mr Arthur Pearson Friend, of *The Avenue, Parnell, who was for many years prominent in public affairs in Aucklnnd. Mr Friend was horn at Kingsbridge, England, in 1866. From 1883 to 1880 he was secretary of a large electrical company in London. Arriving in Melbourne "in 1890, he joined the staff of L. Stevenson and Sons, Ltd., of Flinders lane. Three years later he was selected by Sir F. Sargood to fill the position of secretary to the Kauri Timber Co.. in Auckland, and in 1898 he established an accountancy business. A year later he was appointed district manager for the Oeean Accident Guarantee Corporation. Mr Friend held three Cambridge University certificates, and was a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Accountants. He is survived by a widow and daughter.