PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2217, 1 August 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon.. J. G. W. Aitken, who was present at last night's meeting of the Icchnical Education Board, was congratulated by the chairman (Mr. G. Frost) on his elevation to the Legislative Council. -Mr. Frost spoke in coin-" plimentary terms of Mr; Aitken's services on publio bodies, and expressed, the opinion that the appointment would give satisfaction throughout tho Dominion. Mr. J.. E. Fitzgerald also referred to tho new momoer's valuable services to' tho municipality,' ■ and remarked 'that it was pleasing to find that thoso services had been recognised by the Government of the day Mr. A. G. Leslie, nf the Napier Stamp' Department, left Napier yesterda'y on' transfer to Dunedin. v Mr. P. Luke, works manager of the ' Napier branch ; of J. J. Ni ven and Co;, • arrived in Wellington yesterday to talie up a position as district manager at the headquarters of the firm. Messrs. Harold Gregson and J. F. Montague, of Auckland, passed through .Wellington yesterday en route to InVercargill where they are to judge the music and elocutionary sections respectively at the competitions there. Information has been received that Mr. Campbell Young, who is studying for a London University degree in medicine, has passed in anatomy, physiology, , and pharmacology, ihus completing his intermediate Mr. Young is a son of Mr. M. G. Yoilng, late of : Wellington, and is a Terrace School and ' ' • Wellington College Old Boy. • Mrs. B. Williams, eldest daughter of •,the late Mr. Joseph Hicks,,and.wife of Mr: B. Williams, of (youngest brother of Captain W. R. Williams), died at her' residence, Arthur Street, yesterday,afternoon. was a native of Farnham, Surrey, am. arrived in Wellington in the'ship Con. fiict on August 4, 1874. The deceased lady is survived by her husband and a family of three—Messrs. A.. Williams , and P. Williams, of the Railway Dβpartment, and Mrs. E. Year, .wife of Air. E. Vea'r, of-the Postal Department" —and two sisters, Mrs. W. A. G. Skinner, of Wellington, and Mrs. F. Bishop, of Christchurch. . Mr. Bert Koyle wilt aot as manager of tho Niblo Company during the Wei-, lington season. On the conclusion of • the Williamson pantomime season in Now Zealand, Mr. John. Farrell will join the Williamson Dramatic Company (playing "The Argyle Case") as manager. ;' . ; ;. •-•.."■■ ■ 'The death, is recorded of Mr. William Moir, of Messrs. Moir and Co.,'flour- \ millers and grain merchants, of Christchurch. The deceased was 71 years of age. • . ■ ■ . . Yesterday the combined staffs of the "Evening Post" made a farewell presentation to Mr. Herbert Wynne, chief engineer, who is leaving Wellington te 'take up a similar position on the ne« Sydney Labour, daily paper/ "Tht World." ■■ . . • . Mr. L. T.;Watkins, of Messrs. Watkins, Tyer, and Tolan, was among the passengers for Sydney by the TJlimaroa. ' A cable message from London received at the headquarters of tho Sal- > vation Army yesterday, states that General Booth hopes to visit New Zealand next year. Commissioner Richards and Major Colvin, who have bSten attending the Army Congress in London, ! are due to leave Vancouver for" New Zealand oh Wednesday next. Mr. G. W. Rouse, who has held the' position of accountant with the South Tatanaki and Patea Steamship ■' Companies for over two years, has been appointed;.accoun.tant : .tr> tjie 3Yaterside Workers' Employers' Association, and will tike up his new duties immediately. ■~.'; : -■'■.'"■.. ' ■ *— .'■ ■ i