PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1941, 26 December 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

S.''His* : KM:llcHCi;,Ul]o':Oo'vcriibr: has' ex- ': ; interna- ■' iUo.na!'athlctii:'mooting'to'bo held to-day ■ tho'.'Aihletic Park, ;Vin(lt»iS.tlio.'außpicos'l'ol' the New Zealand ?"AiiVntciii^AHilcti'Ci"AHsociation"; and will the contests !;e----.lnwmUho.sAmerir.'ins and the New Zcaafternoon.- ■;£.■•■■■■<«. 'o]uv ]"] onlW't l'V.Mnssey,'Piinio Mini.itoi;,i;\vas. reported to !»o a-littU"! easier lust'.cveiiiiis,- but he is still confined to hed.i;. ;The. other .Ministers havfi all fol-' lowed their, original plans, noted on Wednesday: .The Hon. W. H. Merries, the Hon.. W .-Eraser, and the Hon. F. M. 11. Fisher'aruat Auckland, the Hon. .1.-Allen at Dnncdin, the Hon. R. H. Rhodes at Christehurch, and tho other Ministers in Wellington. ■• Major-C'iencral Godle.v,' Commandant of tin) Forces, is due hack in Now Zealand from England on January G. osJ'n'£conso(riieiicc of Mr. C. ' HoldsJwortiis having boon appointed managiint;; .liroctdr""'of: tho Union Steam Ship Aiken has been 'appointcd...-'.to.,:suocecd. Mr. Holdsworth as. gencralsnianager from 1 Junuary 1. ':- Superintendent Mitchell, until recent: ly in of the Auckland police district, is to ho placed in charao of the Otago district. Superintendent Dwycr, of Otai:o, : is to ho superintendent of tho Canterbury district, vice Superintendent Kicly, who was transferred to tiie jwsition of superintendent ■■..' at- Auckland sonic weeks ago. Mr. J. H. Owen, who is coming out from England by R.M.S. Otway, arrives in Wellington on February 4. Mr. Harry Roberts, who is retiring from the staff of tho Government Printing Office after a lon£j term of service, wag on- Wednesday presented by his fellow employees "with a puree of sovereigns. In tho abseneo of the Hon. F. M.' I?. Fisher tlio presentation was made bv the Government Printer, Mr. John Mackav, who referred in complimentary terms to the happy relations which had always existed between tho recipient (as president of the Government Printing Office. Association) and the Department. A suitable response was rnado by Mr. Roberts, who is held in tho highest esteem throughout tho office, all happiness and prosperity in tho future were wished him, and the function concluded with cheers for tho retiring official, who is about to enter mto business on bis own account. ■ Mr. J. H. Hoard, Hawko's Bay's cricket- coach,, lias received an ofler to act; as coach for tho Bristol, Grammar School, one-of England's big secondary colleges," but lie has decided to decline it. Speaking to a Napier "Daily Telegraph" reporter, Mr. Board staled that if he accepted tlio position it would moan his dronmng out of Lord's and as his benefit was about duo lie did not wish to miss it. Ho had also got his son on the land at To Aute, and as soon as lie (Mr. Board) was finished at Home, he would coino oat and settle in Hawko's Bay for good. The Rev. J. Dickson has sent- in his resignation as minister of St. 1-nul s : Presbyterian Church, Picton, on account of ill-health. Mr. W. W. Samson, formerly DeputyRegistrar of the Supremo Court in. > Christchurch. left on Tuesday evening to take up bis new duties as Deputy* > B"<ristrar of Patents hi Wellington. Previous to his departure members or tho 1 Supreme Court staff met him and Mr. i W. A. Hawkins, the Registrar, on. be- ! half of those present presented him with ' a silver-mounted pocket-book, 1 Mr. H. Guthrie-Smith, of HawkoS ' Bay. -'has returned after a week's visit in'Christchurch, which he has spent m 1 revisine the proofs of ii new book lift ! will miblisli in'that'city on tit ed "Mut- ' ton, Birds and Other Birds." It will 1 -leal with native birds on Stewart Is*. ■ land Mr. Guthrie-Smith will leave for a visit to Scotland early in. tho New 1 -Year. ' Mrs M. Collis, one of the first white • women to pouctrnto tho heart of tho I Maimwcka district, died on Saturday 1 moi-min'. She arrived in the Dominion ! 36 years ago, her first homo being m Christehurch. . Mr. A. Whitley, mine manager, of • Thames, lias been appointed by the 1 ilb- : Ho Service Commissioner to tho mspcc- • torshin of mines in Otago, rendered va--5 cant by tho resignation of Mr. .1. 4 Thompson: Mr. Whitley was formerly ' mine manager at the Waitangi mine, " Thames, and was subsequently Govern- ; moiit Inspector.of Mines at Reofton. ! Mr. A. R. Atkinson was a passenger to England by tho Corinthic on Tuesl 'The Mavor (Mr. J. P. k"M and I Mrs. Luke are leaving for Napier to-day . on .". few days' holiday. Mr. Chas. M'Erloan, of tlio Post and - Telegraph Department, was on Tuesday l evening entertained by a number of Ins ,• and presented with a rug and travelling bag, prior to his departure i for Napier. Mr. J. Williams, of the signal and 3 cicatrical branch, New Zealand Rail- - ways, was on Tuesday tho recipient of a i handsome tea and coffee service and n entwo dish on the occasion of his marI riai" 1 . Mr. J. Lowthwaito occupied the i chair. Mr. l'\ Wallis made tlio prescnf tation, - Mr and Mrs. W. S. Gaudin, sen., " and Miss G. 13. Gandhi, of Wellington, who left for Home in the Tanuu eight - months ago, returned by tho same , steamer yesterday. o Ms. William Serle, an old identity of f Auckland, died at tile Auckland Moso pital on Mondav, at the age of 82 years. '. He landed by the ship Salisbury m 1868, and lias resided in Newmarket for s tho last thirty-eight years. A son of y the deceased died tho same morning. " Mr. W. R. Blow, before his departure from Rotorua for Sydney, where ho has i;een appointed tourist agent, was mot 0 by members of the Government staff, II over which he hud control as tourist ii"ent, and presented with a full-sized V photograph of the staff, Mr- and Mrs. -■ M'Connick (guide and manageress at I- Wauuangu) presented Mr. Blow with a a handsomo greenstone clock. At a d meeting of the Scddon Memorial Click )• Committee tho Rev. F. A. Bennett, on c bohalf of tho committee, presented Mr. i> Blow (who has acted as lion, secretary) d with a very handsome clock containing !, a sot of Westminster chimes, a replica, t in miniature- of thoso winch are snmlly 1, to be placed in tho memorial clock in > the new post office now in course of ccn- ?• struclion. ' . . " Two presentations wcro made before l < tho Christmas holidays at the Welling- ''• ton Woollen Company's factory. Miss 11 Powell, who had been in the employ of '.° the. company for sixteen, years, was " leavina to ■be married, and sho was !1 " presented by the directors with a silvei tea service. . The girls who wero hoi -■ co-workers presented her with a sslvei 10 eako basket and salad bowl. A prcsmi- *'■ tation was made also by th© girls tc V Miss M'Nnir, their matron. 10 Mr J. R. Montgomery, formerly o: 'i tho staff of the Otago Boys' Higl 1 School, has been appointed to the posi '" tioil of assistant master at the Christ ■i church Boys' High School. Mr. Mont gotnery is at jireswit headmaster of tin s " Gcraliiine High School. i. At the Empress Theatre on Christina: >d Kve Mr. R. J. A. Lister, manager, w,t id tho recipient of a ca'se of pipes -and i ns box of cigars, as a gift from tho staff <>- in celebration of the completion of th< It first year of tho theatre's existenc is under the name of Empress. 'J Mr. J. K. V, Bnckknd has been ap pointed Inspector of Machinery for it" Inverca'rgill district. Mr. Bueldani •' was previously in tho Union S.S. Com of pany's servicn, and resigned his posi k- tion as chief engineer of tho s,s, Ka to mnna to take u« his present appoint | ment.. ~;,: ■ '.J;;. ,;.