PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 588, 17 August 1909, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The • Acting-Prime ■ Minister (states « Press Association telegram) proceeded yesterday afternoon to AVaikohu, to inspect the railway construction works, on which fiVo hundred men are now engaged. Ho will be entertained at a "social' 1 this evening, and presented with an illuminated address. Ho expects to remain in Gisborno until. towards the end of the week, and will then probably proceed overland to Wairoa, where he will open the Stewarts' Crossing bridge at Nuhaka on Saturday. : . ■'. ■■■-,■

The Hon. Q. Fowlds visited Burnham Industrial School yesterday.—Press Association.

Mr. L. R. Phillips, M.P.' for Waitomiita, ■ who has been , spending a few day 6 in Wei---liugton. will return to Auckland to-day. Mr. Waldegrave, TJndcr-Secrotary of Jus- X l tico, arid Dr. Hay, Inspector of. Prisons, who _ liave boon oh a visit to Irivercargill, have re-' tiirnod to Wellington/ ' . ■,' Miss Olivo■'Clifford, Mies M. Morrison, arid '" Miss A. Earp have been, appointed pupil teachers at Tokomaru, Levin, and Johnson, villo respectively. '- ■•■-■.-'.• Mr. J. A: M'Cullough, workers' representative on the Arbitration Court,,who came to town on Sunday .to ntt-eiitl tho funeral of the late Mr. S.'Brovnv, to Palmer-' ston yesterday morning in connection with Arbiti-ation Court work. , , . ■ ■ In connection with the rumour that Mr , . Dinnie intends at an early date to resign from the:position of Commissioner of Police, . the Hon.' J)r. Findlay, Minister for Justice, states that he has had , no notification from Mr.'Dinnie to that effect. . '.'

Amongi the 'passengers for-the south last night was 1 tho Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Internal Affairs, who will' Spend h few days in Canterbury. On .bis-return Mr. Buddoi will go north to ■■inspect improved farm' settloi mentfi and lands under survey and also to inquire into the matter of the Hauraki Plains drainage. - , •'■ ■: <' ■ ..■■. ■;, ■;

After a long and painful illness, Mr. Ernest Wastnbj'j for the past • fourteen years accountant, to the National Bank at Wellington, died at. his' residence 'at. the Lower Hutt yesterday niorriinfi! Thelate Mr. Wastnoy was horn at Wakapuaka on May 17, 1862, and entered the service of the National Bank in 1873.- .■:.:'

- Mrs.-Hi J.'Taplayj whose name appeared ■ on the programme of the Unemployed Boncflt Concert last evenihg, : waß ; unafile to be proEOiit owing to: serious indisposition. It'was only lately that Mrs. Taplay arrived from South Africa, and. she,quickly ehowed her sympathy with .those distressed through want of employment by offering to devote herself, to nUrßiii'g work 'amongst them. '■• . "

Mr. G. A. R. Mackay, who has been manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Nelson for the:past threo years, -has , boon appointed to , ' the managership of tho bank' at Tirnnru. Mr. H. S. Itabison, maiiagoisof , the bank at Eltham, will succeed Mr. Mackay at Nelson. Tho changes will take, place itt;. October next. Mr, Mackay was accountant at the Nelson branch of tho bank'from 1898 to ; 1900, and, until ; his return to Nelson, three years ago, was ncting-rtianagor at Wellington, Napier, and other parts of the Dominion. ■■'.;• : '', ' ■ : ■/'

Stephen Hart, of the firm of Dimond and Hart, who has boon confined to liis.home for tho past twelvo months, died last evening at his residence in- Karori. The .deceased gentleman has. resided in Wellington over since his arrival 'ill Now Zealand somr eighteen years ago| when he (in conjunction with tho lato Mr. Dimond) established ♦.Uβ' business which boars their namo. Mr. Hart loaves six children, : Messrs. Hailry S. and P., 0. Hart, Misses Marion, Olive, Elsie, and Moua Hart. Mrs. Hart ' predeceased her 'husband some , five and a half years ago.' ,

A Christehurch Press Association telegram states that Mr. P. D'Arcy, secretary to the'V Canterbury Federation,of Industrial tlnions, and assistant-secretary to the Trades and Labour Council, is relinquishing these appointnionts to take up tho position' of organiser for the Union of New Zealand Shearers. He loaves for Sydney on Thursday to obtain in- : formation as to, the ..Australian workers', unions, tho constitution of which has been' adopted by the shearers. He expects to return to New Zealand in a Inonth's time, and will thoii tako up organising work in . tlw North Island,