PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10206, 6 April 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Hon. T. Mackenzie, Minister for Agriculture, was banquetted by the Stratford Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday evening. He left for Waitara yesterday morning, en route for tho Mokau river.

Major Rowley, of the Salvation Army, will visit Masterton on Sunday and Monday next. Mr W. W. McCardle, Mayor of Pahiatua, who has been appointed to succeed Mr D. Crewe as a member of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, took his seat for the first time at yesterday's meeting. Dr. Frengley, Secretary of the Health Department, was a visitor to Masterton yesterday. He returned to Wellington in the afternoon.

Mr James Gear, one of the earliest butchers of Wellington, and founder I of the Gear Meat Preserving Works, died yesterday morning at his home in Porirua. Deceased was seventy-four years of age. Mr J. C. Williamson's theatrical company are passengers to New Zealand by the Maheno, which left Sydney at 4.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. -

Mr Yung Liang Hwang, Chinese Consul for New Zealand, has been appointed Acting-Consul General for Australia.' He takes up his new position at tho end of this month.

A Timaru telegram states that the Rev. Frank Jeffreys was last night inducted to vSt. Andrew's PresbyterianChurch, in .succession to the Hev. Chappie, resigned. Tho latter has become a Unitarian minister, and has gained a considerable congregation in Timaru.

.The Rev. H..S. Woolcombe, who visited Masterton some months ago, arrived in London in February, after heing away for eighteen months in New Zealand. Australia-. South Africa and India, in connexion with the work of the Church of England Men's Society. Mr Woollcombo is still indisposed, and will have to take several months' rest before entering upon further work.