Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18462, 17 August 1925, Page 8

Personal Items.

Mr J. T. Tucker (Wellington) ia • guost at Warner's Hotel. Messrs G. Clark (Kilmarnock) : A. F. Burns (Ayr) are guests at An Clarendon Hotel. , Messrs H. Strange-Mero (Wellington) and H. L. Babington (Dunedin) an staying at tho United Service HoteL . Mr H. E. Combs is resigning tto pW» mauont secretaryship of the Post ud Telegraph Officers' Association, a ptri* tiou ho has hold for many yean. !&• forts have boon niado to prevail on hoi to reconsider his decision, but they kavtt been xinbuccessful our W* lington correspondent). Howvw, It is the resignation will ast take effect for some time yet. M<®" bers of tho Association in genetal eac» pross regret that tho Association ia losing his services. Tho friends of Mr T. D. BarsHt, M.P., (will regret to learn that he ia not making such :i speedy retain towards complete recovery to health as KQ many, would wish. After three wM® spent in Wellington at the beginning ff the session, Mr Burnett had to ratvra homo with impaired strength. The prospects of his returning to ~W«ll}iigton for tho remainder of the session »W at present not very bright. 9|r Bitchener and Mr Bolleston have offend to watch Tcmuka's interests. Mr J. Noble, first assistant of tha Sydenham school, who is taking op a position in Masterton, received a Assentation on Friday ofternoon WW members of the school staff and ii|tt?M* tors at the Technical Instruction CentW. The headmaster of tho school, Mr bold, in presenting Mr Noble with a ring for himself and a cheque for Mis Noble, referred to Mr Noble's spkadid services for the Bchool, and exprWStA regret at his impending departilta, . The Mayor, Mr J. K. Archer, who fa chairman of tho Bchool Committee, also referred to tho loss tho school had N» - tained through Mr Noble's resignation.