PERSONAL ITEMS,

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 21 August 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS,

Mr. Bush, City Engineer at Auckland, is a visitor to Wellington.

Mr. H. J. H. Blow, Under-Secretary for Public Works, has returned from the North.

Mr. Edwin Bold has been appointed Land Purchase Officer for tho Public Works Department.

Mr. W. F. Massed-(Leader of the Oppotiou) was again 'absent from the'Housp oi Representatives -yesterday •■•through indisposition. • •

Mr. M. J. Reardon, secretary of the General Labourers' Union, returned from tho South yesterday morning.

Mr. H. Baillio, Wellington City Librarian, was in Pittsburg, examining its library, when tho last mail left tho United States.

Mr. Matthew Murdoch (a member of the City Council) and Mrs. Murdoch, who have been on a visit to the Old Country, are expected to arrive here ,by the Oswestry Grango about September. 1. '

| A private letter received yesterday from Pittsburg, U.S.A., states that Mr. A. R. Acheson, BiSc., 8.E., late of Canterbury College, lias received tlio appointment bf assistant professor of mechanical engineering ,it Syracuse University,' New York. Mr. Acheson had a successful career at Canterbury College, graduating Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 1905,. and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 190 G. ' He worked with the Westinghouse Air-Brake Company and Manawatu Railway Company, and for a time held a position in the Wellington Technical School. He joined the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company at Pittsburg, U.S.A., in 190 G. ' ■

Mr. E. Kidson, recently of Christchu'fch, who was appointed to a ppsition on the United States Magnetic Survey,, left New York on July, 11 for Panama, en route to Quito, South' America. He has general instructions to sot up magnetic survey stations oi'ci' a considerable area of country, and expects to be engaged in this work for a year or eighteen months. He will have a Spaniard in attendance (states a private letter from America), and four mules to carry the party and gear. Mr. Kidson's detailed movements werof to bo as follows:—On llis way to Panama he was to call at Jamaica to put in

a magnetic station at Kingston. From Panama he was to go to Guayaquil and thence to headquarters at Quito. After setting up numerous stations in Colombia, ho will go down the coast. Possibly he will work ill Cliilo and Peru, and afterwards across the Andes to Buenos Ayres.