PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2109, 28 March 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey. (Prime Minister) will leavo l'apanui "this morning for Moa Flat, and after visiting Roxburgh will reach Alexandra jn the evening. There he will remain until Monday, when he will proceed to Mosgiel. Ho returns to Wellington on Thursday next. Tho Hon. Jas. Alien and tho Hon. A. L. Herdman are at Rotorua. Mr. Iftrdman will return to Wellington to-mori'ow. The Hon. W. H. HerriC3 is at Gisborne, and the Hon. R. 11. Rhodes at Auckland. The Hon. Dr. Pomare left last evening for Huntly. The Hon. W. Fraser, tile Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, and the Hon. H. D. Bell are in' Wellington. There is expected to be a filll attendance of Cabinet Ministers in AVo'lington towards tho end of next week.

His Worship the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) has telegraphed to tho ActingTown Clerk (Mr. R. Tait) stating that lie will return to Wellington from Napier by Monday evening s express. : ■ Dr. Fitchett was • a passenger from Wellington to Nelson by the Pateena last evening. ' The Hon. E. C. J. Stevens left Wellington for Lyttclton. ■ by the Wahino last evening. Mr. C. K. Wilson, M.P., together with his -wife,-is making a walking tour through tho lower Oliura and thence to the Wanganui River. Mr. It. Triggs, Assistant-I'ublio Service Commissioner, returned .yesterday from Blenheim. Mr. A. D. Thomson, the other Assistant Commissioner, is at Christchurch with the Public Service Board of Appeal. Mr. R. W.- Walker left yesterday by the Moeraki on a trip round the world. Mr. Emony Chubb, of Chubb's Lock bnd Safe Company, left for Sydney by the Moeraki' yesterday. Mr. Frank Holdsworth, Mayor of Onslow, has definitely decided not to allow himself to be nominated for a further term of office. . The Rev. W. S. Fraser (Maori curate of Maori district) has received the consent of tho Bishop of Waiapu, tho Hon. Lieut.-Colonel' of the district (the Rev. Mr. Hermon), and the Vicar (the Rev. A. T. Williams), to be present at the Takapau encampment in April as one of the chaplains. . Sergeant T. Griffith, who has been in chargo of the Hawora police station for. four years, is retiring on superannuation ,on March 31. He has been in the service for about 38 years. Mr. John Heslop, of Eltham, leaves on Friday on a trip to Great Britain, which will extend over a period of twelve months. ' . ' Mr. W. L. Kennedy, of Stratford, leaves Auckland on April 10 by tho Niagara on a short visit to tlio Old Country. Mr. Kennedy intends travelling to England via> Canada,' and coming back via Suez. At Wednesday's meeting of the Taranaki Education Board, Mr. Kennedy tendered his resignation as. a member of the board which was accepted with regret. His _ colleagues referred to the valuable services of Mr. Kennedy. during his fourteen years of membership. Miss J. M. Hitch has boon, appointed assistant cookery .mistress at the Stratford and Inglewood Technical Schoojs. , .tin Tuesday a Maori/War < veteran, named John French, died at the Old Men's Home, New Plymouth (reports the "Herald"). Ho was 71 years of age; 'In the war time ho was, a member of Major Atkinson's Bushrangers, and 50 years ago was 1 at the taking of Kaitaki, in Captain Good's company. Captain ~Black : secured;-; tl\e .medal and pension foiv Mivr.Ffenchr-piily two months ago,, and ho has not -Survived loiig to enjoy the pension. . The' newly-appointed general. manager of .the New Zealand' Railways is reported to have beem a'hockey player of international standing in England, and the Wellington Hockey Association last night elected him as one of its-five vicepresidents. ..