PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2207, 21 July 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain Hall-Thompson, Naval Advisor to tho Government, will be the guest of honour' at the New Zealand Club's luncheon to-day. The Hon. B, H. Rhodes (PostmasterGcncral) will leave on Saturday next for Blenheim, where ho is to open a new post office on Monday. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Rhodes will lay the foundation stone 6f the new Wairau Hospital at Blenheim, and he will return to Wellington on Tuesday night. Yesterday morning Mr. It. W. Burbidgo received a cablegram from London stating that liis son, who haa been operated upon for appendicitis, is getting bettor. The doctors have .ordered Mr. Percy Burbidge to take a long sea voyage,, and he will leave England' for Sydney by the Otway on July 31, en route to Wellington. ' Mr. H. A. Fox, manager of the Office Appliance-Company, who was seriously iujured in tho railway . accident at Wlmngamarjno in May, has recovered: sufficiently.to be removed from tho.hos-! pital to the private boardinghouse, "Stonehurst," in Auckland. So far he Is only able to walk a, few steps, and on account of the injury to his back pannot sit up straight for more than ten mjnutes at a time.

The Fcxton Citizens' Bowling and Racing Clubs have presented a puree of fifty sovereigns to Mr, H. Stuiiel), manager of tho Foxton Gasworks, who is leaving for Wellington.—Palmerston cdrftspondent, ■ ' •

Mr, F. H. Mather, manager of Messrs. George and Kersley, Ltd., who lias been visiting London in the interests of the company, is returning by the incoming Vancouver boat. '

Mr. George Thornton, one of the engineers employed by the' Canterbury Provincial Gqvermnei)t, who had retired for many years from active work, died yesterday'at Sunnier. Mr. Thornton was engaged under the late Mr. Edward Dobson in the construction <)f the rpad over tho ranges -which, connected the Past and West Coasts.—Press Association. , ~'" ■

Df. Fitohett, C.M.G., Public! Trustee, left for Christchureh last evening on official business.

Mr. James Sloan, formerly proprietor of a Lambton. Quay tailoring business, and for many years prominently connected with $t, John's Church, is seriously ill. ■~".•■

. Tho. Napier Borough Council has appointed Mr. J. F. Warren, Ayho has been m charge of the Waipori Falls piower station for over five years, electrical em gineer for the Borough of Napier, at a. salary of There were nineteen ap? plicatfcns for the .Abßo> ciation, >'■