Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17460, 22 May 1922, Page 6

Personal Items.

The Hon. W. Nosworthy, Minister of j Agriculture, arrived in Ashburton from ! Wellington on Saturday morning. j The Hon. G. J. Anderson, Minister j for Labour and Mines, left Wellington ! cn Saturday for Auckland to deal with • mining matters in the Puhipuhi and Te Puke districts. Dr. Cyril Tewsley. of Auckland, is i staving with Archdeacon Haggitt, The | Vicarage. Merivale. j Mr J. Voss, who is leading Marshland to take up the position of headmaster ! of the Spreydon school, will commence i his new duties ihere on June Ist. Major R: B. Smythe, D.5.0., and Major N. W. B. B. Thorns. D.5.0., M.C.. have been granted brevet rank of lieut.-colonel. I Mr It. Allan, "Ronald," leaves Net-1 son on Wednesday 'on route to China,! 'where he intends to spend some months j visiting .various portions of the country. I The Rev. Robert Haddon. the Maori Methcdist minister. left for the North Island on Saturday night, having received a message to return home on account of his daiighter's illness. I . Mr A. W. Swap, relieving postmaster for the sub-offices in the Invercargili district, has received notice of his trans- j fer to the position of supervisor of the j Dunedin Telephone Exchange. j The election of officers of the New Zealand Educational Institute resulted as follows: —President, Mr D. W. Low: vice-president, Mr C. T. Aschman; treasurer,, Mr B. T. Blake. Mr A. Wyllie has severed his connection with the Auckland City Council as electrical engineer, a position he had held since 1903, in order to net in a similar capacity for tho Auckland Power Board.

Word has been received by cable from Melbourne by the secretary of the National Association of Spiritualist Churches of New Zealand (Mr A. H. Miles) that Mr Horace Leaf, the English medium and lecturer, sent out to Australia and New Zealand by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, will arrive in New Zealand to comiiience his New Zealand tour at Auckland about June 18th. Mr Leaf has lectured by command before the Royal FamilyMr Alan C. Baume, a member of the "Dominion" staff, has received a letter from Mr D. Stanley. Smith, hon. secretary to the "Round Table," informing him that he has won the £lO prize offered to secondary school students by Colonel Lascelles, for the best essay written upon the subject of "Tho Future i>f India as a Dominion of the British Empire." Mr Baume was a student at Waitaki. Boys' High School when he competed. Mr E. W. Cave, Clerk of the Court at Palmerston North, has been appointed to fill the vacancy at Christchurch caused bv the retirement on superannuation of 3\tr W A. D. Banks. Mr G. H. Lang, who has been acting clerk of the Court at-Dunedin, has been appointed clerk of the court at Palmerston North. Mr Michael Foley, clerk of the Court at Napier, will succeed Mr Lang in Dunedin.