MAINLY ABOUT MEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12618, 1 December 1926, Page 6

MAINLY ABOUT MEN

A Press message from Auckland states that the Hon. Bagnall, Minister for Finance at Tonga, was a passenger by the Tofua on a holiday visit. He says that the fruit season at Tonga appeared to be a good one.

A. B. Ross. A.D.C. to the Administrator of Samoa, a passenger by the Tofua, which vessel arrived at Auckland, said there liad been & little political squabble down there, but it had been satisfactorily settled. He expressed the opinion that Samoa had turned the corner, and a great future was assured. Dr Ritchie, chief medical officer for Samoa, also a passenger by tho Tofua, stated that the health of the people for the past vear had been particularly good. Hookworm had been successfully tackled and would soon be stamped out. , The Leader of the Opposition (Mr R. E. Holland) is in Wellington, from tho West Const, on business connected with his electorate. He proposes to return to-day. Mr H. B. Tucker, who lias been in Wellington for some time past, has returned to Palmerston North. Rear-Admiral A. F. Beal, who was until recently first member of the New Zealand Naval Board, was received hv the King on his return to London (says an A. and X.Z. cable received last night). At a meeting of the council of the New Zealand Association of British Manufacturers and Agents held yesterday, Mr G. H. Scott was re-elected president, and Messrs C. W. Salmon and B. J. Dunsheath vice-presidents for the ensuing .year. The Right Rev. Monsignor Burke, who died suddenly at the Convent of Bluff, Invercargill, on Sundav night, aged 70 years, was having a rest preparatory to conducting the evening service, and when one of the nuns went to call him he suddenly expired. Deceased was born at Dungarvan, County Waterford. Ireland, and studied and was ordained at St. John’s College, Waterford, where he became a professor for two years. In company with Bishop Moran, be arrived in Dunedin 44 years ago. and was stationed in that city, at Port Chalmers, and at Queenstown for 30 years. Monsignor Burke who was made a domestic prelate by the Pope this year, was distinguished for theological and historical learning. He returned about three months ago from a trio to the Old Country, apparently greatlv benefited in health, and his death last evening came as a great shock to his parishioners and all who knew him.