PERSONAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1939, Page 6

PERSONAL

Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady .Galway returned to Wellington from the south yesterday morning. Later during the morning his Excellency presided at a meeting of the Executive Council. The Hon. F. Langstone and Mrs Langstone and Sir Alfred and Lady Webb-Johnson were the guests of their Excellencies at luncheon at Government House yesterday. The Hon. P. Fraser, Minister of Education, left Wellington for the South Island last night. He will return to Wellington on Saturday. Mrs C. C. Scott, of Auckland, who has been the guest of thei Methodist Parsonage for a fortnight, returned to Auckland by motor car yesterday. Mr A. L. Tresidder, registrar of the Supreme Court, Nelson, and formerly of Masterton, has been promoted to clerk of the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington. ' Mr Walter Hawke formerly of Masterton, has been transferred from the Justice Department at Palmerston North to the Social Security Department at Masterton.

Mr H. F.‘ Ayson, Resident Commissioner and Chief Judge of the Cook Islands, who has been on a business and health trip to New Zealand, left Auckland for Rarotonga by the Matua on Tuesday. Mr W. H. Jackson, Masterton, and his two daughters, Mrs Llewellyn Bagnall, Remuera, and Mrs Hugh Symes and Mr Hugh Symes, of Romax Farm Takaka, Nelson, have returned to Auckland after an extended motor tour to Russell and North Auckland. The Rev. Father E. Brill, a New Zealander, who is priest chaplain at St. Theresa’s Agricultural College, Abergowrie, in the diocese of Townsville, arrived at Auckland by the Wanganella from Sydney on a visit to New Zealand. 'His parents live in Te Awamutu.

The New Zealand Poultry Producers’ Federation, at its annual conference in Wellington yesterday, nominated the following members for office, and, there being no opposition, they will be declared elected today:—President, the Rev. W. F. Stent, Carterton; vice-president, Mr. J. W. McGlinchy, Christchurch; executive officers, Messrs A. E. Knowles, Auckland, and T. Gill, Otago; secretary-treasurer, Mr A. J. Severn, Upper Hutt; auditor, Mr A. F. Taylor, Heretaunga. The portfolios administered by Mr. Langstone have been reallocated to other Ministers for the period of his absence from New Zealand as representative of the Government at the International Labour Conference in Geneva in June. This reallocation was announced last evening by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, as follows:— State Forest Service, Mr Armstrong; Tourist and Publicity Department, Mr Parry; Native Affairs Department, Mr. Mason; Lands Department and Valuation Department, Mr Lee Martin.

The death occurred in Christchurch on Tuesday of Mr William Stone, who was well known in racing circles both in New Zealand and Australia. He first became prominent as owner of Silver Peak, who won several races, including a Great Autumn Handicap. Later Silver Peak produced. Silver Paper, who, under Mr Stone’s training, built up an attractive record. Mr Stone changed his quarters to Sydney a few years ago and won some races there, but after meeting with an accident on one of his trips from New Zealand he was compelled to give up his work more than 12 months ago. Mr. George W. Lines, Hastings, yesterday celebrated his 102nd birthday. Born in Salford, Bedfordshire, England, on March 29, 1837—the year in which the late Queen Victoria came to the throne —Mr Lines, with the rest of h’is family, decided to try his luck in Australia in 1854, at the time of the Crimean War. Australia did not treat them too kindly, and, though the family remained in Ballarat, Mr Lines as a young man was induced to come to New Zealand, his objective being the Thames goldfields. In 1870 Mr Lines went to Hawke’s Bay, when Napier was a tiny hamlet, and Hastings not in existence. Soon afterwards Hastings started to become more than a project and Mr Lines was responsible for building one of the first four-roomed cottages in Hastings.