PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 53, 26 November 1907, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

.. : — 5 ' : r Lieutenant-Colonel A. Hume has returned i' to Wellington from inspecting the Waiotapu ' prison camp. ■ " Captain Forbes, of tho Turakina, returned to Wellington yesterday after spending 8 3 holiday with Dr. Sorley, of Feilding, Mr. Henry Fielder, of Manners Street, in. I tends to visit tho Old Country early next ' year. ! Mr. E. Clifton, Chief Inspector of Stock, t leaves for Nelson to-dav to attend tho show. 5 Ho will afterwards go on to Blenheim, i Mr,' 11. W. Holmes, lingineer-in-Chief to • the Public Works Dopartment, leaves to-day ) on a tour of inspection of the Northern Main I Trunk Railway. I Mr. W. S. Short, Chief Clerk of tho Roads ; Department, has returned to Wellington 1 from a round of Commissions in Hawke's Bay ' and at Cambridge. Professor Maclaurin leaves for Napier to day, en routo for Auckland, Sydnoy, VanL couver, and New York. Mrs. Maclauriu- " and family left for Napier yestorday. ' On tho occasion of his approaching marriage, Mr. A. E. Odlin, of the firm of Messrs. ' C. and A. Odlin, timber tnor -,iants,'was ou. Saturday presented by tho cn.ployccs of bit I firm with a marble clock, suitably inscribed. Tho Rovs. P. W. Faiitjlongh, C. Porter, i J. Williams, . and K. P. Blaniiies. were pas* . sengers for Napier yestorday to attend tha Welliugton District Methodist Synod, which commonces its session 10-day. Tho Loweiv Eutt Borough Council, at its meeting last night, passed a resolution of condolence to ex-CouK3illor Cudby, whoso wife died recently. Tho Clerk was instructed to embody the resolution iu a letter of. sympathy. ■, Mr. W. T. Scully, Assistant Officer-in-Chargo of Telegraphs at Auckland, retires oi ponsion from the service as from February 28.. on account of ill-health. Tfo is now on leavo. Another old servant of ttje Post and Tolograph Department who is retiring on ponsion at tho end of January is Mr. J. H. Dearslcy, for many years counter clerk in tho Christchurch Telegraph ORic«, Mr. Percy Whittle, son of Mr. Whittle, of tho local staff of the Bank of Now Zealand, has been engaged &s accompanist by Madame Melba for iho concorts sho is to givo in Molbourno and Sydnoy. Tho diva,

giving two concerts in Melbourne and two in Sydney, tho first of which took placo in the Town Hall, Melbourne, on Saturday ovoning. Mr. Duncan Camming, Controller of Honey Orders'and Savings Banks, whoso retirement from, the 'service' was- announced in yesterday's Dominion; entered tho Government service as a clerk to tho Treasury Department on Decomber 1, 1869. On September 6, 1874, lie was transferred to the Post and Telegraph Department as money order clerk in tho chief Post OlSco at Christchurch. Eight years later ho was • transferred to a similar position in Auckland, but March, 1884, saw him back again in Christchurch. On December 1, 1885, ho was appointed Chief Clork at Christchurch, and exactly soven years later was appointed Sub-Inspector of Post Offices in tho Auckland and Thames district. On Soptembor '8, 1900, he becamo Chief Postmaster at Napior, and took up similar duties in Wellington on June 1, 1903, but in October of tho same year was transferred to a similar position in Auckland. On January of this year he was appointed Inspector of Post Offices,/ Wellington, and on July 1 succeeded Mr. W. R. Morris as Controller of Money Orders and Savings Banks and Accountant. He will cease active duty as from December 31,. but his voluntary retirement dates from March 31. It is probable that Mr. Gumming will take up his residence in Auckland.