PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 248, 13 July 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Fell, Crown Prosecutor at Nelson, ia a visitor to Wellington. . ■ Constable E. C. Collett, of Johnsjnyil'o, snapped a couple of sinews of his leg while • watching a hockey match a day or two ago. The injury caused two veins to burst. ■ Tho sullcrcr was attended by Dr. Robinson, and ho is progressing as favourably as possible. ■ Last evening, a presentation was made to Mr. 0. J. Austin, Dominion linotype operator, who is leaving for England. In handing tho recipient a case of pipes, Mr. W. W. ' Todd, foreman printer, wished him boil voyage in a brief speech. Mr. Austin suitably, replied.' 1 . Mr. H. W. Reid, A.S.M., lata director of tho Zoehan School of Minos, has been appointed from five applicants to tho position of director of tho Karangahako School of JMines, caused by the resignation of Mr. R. B. M'Duff, Mr.'Reid will tako control in September. A rumour was current yesterday to'tho' effect that Mr. J. A. Gilruth, M.R.C.V.S. Chief Veterinarian to the Government, ha'j resigned from the service in order to take up a chair of hygiene or veterinary surgery in ail Australian University. On being communicated with last evening, Mr. Gilruth authorised us to deny tho rumour. The' Secretary .for Labour (Mr. E. Tregear) makes fitting reference, in his annual do- ' partmontal report, to the late Mr. James Mackay, Chief Inspector of Factories. "He was," states tho roport, "one of the earliest appointed officers of the Department (then known as the Bureau of Industries), where his .zeal and intelligence were priceless to those witli whom lie worked from the beginning of his career in tho public service to its close. I here have to make official record of his death, but I am unable to convey in words my deep sense of the value of his services in aiding the organisation of the Department." Tho Rev. Father Holbrook, of ,St. Pat- < rick's, Auckland, waspresented on Thursday evening with an illuminated .address and a purse of sovereigns, on the occasion of his leaving Auckland for! Cambridge. The presentation Was given by his parishioners and various friends in Auckland. Father Holbrook, in acknowledging the presentation, which lie understood amounted to more than £100, said ho exceedingly regretted leaving Auckland, but following his illness earlier in the year he found his strength insufficient for tho work of so largq a" parish. He had come to Auckland, a ; niero boy, and he had devoted to St.' Patrick's six years of work, which he hoped had' not been without result.