PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 290, 1 September 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. L. Cockayne,-F.L.S., left for the South yesterday. Mr; T. Hamer, Under-Secretary of the Mines has returned from Auckland. Mr. J, G. W. Aitken, M.P., returned from a short visit to the Wairarapa yesterday morning. ' Mr. A. Hamilton, Director of tho Dominion Museum, has - returned from tho Auckland district and Gisbornc. Mr. Stuart Richardson, City Electrical Engineer, leaves for Auckland to-day or tomorrow on business connected with the Auckland Tramway Company. ■ A Christchurch Press Association telegram states that Mr. Joseph Sealy, of Timaru, has been elected a' member of the Canterbury Land Board, to represent the Crown tenants. Mr. W. G. lliddell, S.M., who has been relieving Mr. M'Carthy, S.M., at Napier, is expected to leave Napier to-morrow, and will probably resume his 'duties at the Magistrate's Court on Thursday. Tho Hon. Geo. Fowlds is to leave for tho South on Friday evening, next. Ho is to open a new technical school at Akaroa on Saturday, audi on Monday will open tho new Y.M.C.A. -.building in Christchurch. / Sergeant J. M'Guire, chief clerk in the District Office at.tho -Lambton Quay Police Station, and _ Detective-Oassells were both prosonted with long-service' medals last week. The long-service medal is a silver medal presontcd to men '■ who havo served 14 years, in the force, the last' three years of which show ho bad marks on tho conduct record sheet. : ■ /

, Our Duncdin correspondent states that Capt. J. M. M'Kenzio, for many years in the service of the Union Company, died, on Saturday. In January of this year 'he was granted sick leave, and later on he resigned. Captain M'Kenzje. was appointed, fourth officer of the Hauroto in September, 1896, and becamo master of the Kittawa in March, 1007. In 1905, the Herald was bought by a Japanese firm, and Captain M'Kenzie took her to Japan. Ho was a, ship's carpenter for the Union Company before he - became an officer. '