PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 763, 11 March 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime. Minister and the Hon. J, Carroll are at Eotorua, the Hon. G.. Fowlds is at Dunedin, the Hon. D. Buddo in Auckland, and the other Ministers are. in.town.. .Owing to being Minister, in. attend-, ancs on tho'Governor during his farewell visit to the West, Coast,' the; Hon. G. Fowlds had .to cancel all engagements after ■ Friday, . and leaves for ... Christchurch, by the first express oil Saturday.—Press; Association. A i very pleasant" surprise was sprung last ovehing upon a member of the. Work-' : ing Men's Club; who is .taking a pleasure trip to the pid Country after an absence bf. some seventeen years.. A number of the most prominent members clubbed together and ; made the intending, traveller, i Mr. Thbs. M'Govern, a present of a case of pipes, handsomely engraved, as a mark of their good-fellowship ' towards him.' His health was drunk with musical, honours, and • the recipient suitably replied. He leaves via Sydney by to-day's boat. , In the absence of the president, the presentation was made on the club's premises by -tho treasurer,' Mr. E. Carmichael. .-■'. ... ■ '-.-• The Eev. Herbert" A. w Walke" (Church' of England) and the ;Eev..' F. :H. Eadford (Baptist) have.been gazetted, officiating ministers under the : Marriage Act. ' Mr. George Mallinson has been'elected a; member of the Westland Land Board. . . Mr. A: T. Traversi is gazetted actuary and. public auditor under the Friendly Societies Act. ; '■, ■ - ." Mr. J. J. Hay, until recently ah engineer! of the Public Works Department, will leave to-day for New South! Wales, where,- it is understood, he has been.appointed to a high position in.the-Pnbfio Works Department of that Stats.. Mr. Hay is a brother, of the late Mr, P.;,S. Hay, formerly Ehgineer-in-Chief of the Publlo Works .Department Mr. J. H. Fairbairn, of. the Occidental Hotel, left on a six. weeks' health trip to.Melbourne yesterday.' ....

•. Mr. T. J. West, of West's Pictures, who has teen resident 1 in England for the past _year or two, is revisiting Australia. He may, visit Wellington in connection with, the, opening of the ! new King's Theatre next week, and then.. go on to Christchurch, where Wesfs are opening another new. theatre at the end of the month. . Mr. Geoffrey Nye will manage for West's at Christchurch.,

Mr. T. H. Lowry. leaves Auckland for Sydney by the P. and 0. steamer Mongolia! next week, and. during, his stay on the other side he will attend the Eandwick races to see his horses Bobrikoff and Downfall compete.