PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2752, 22 April 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

llioir Excellencies the Earl and Countess of Liverpool havo gone to Auckland k- remain there over the Easter holidays." vrr W. F. Massey went to \i anganui on. Thursday, addressed a _ meeting there that evening, and returned to . Wellington last night. \ The Hon. Sir Walter Clarke Buchanan, K. 0., M.L.0., Sag been appoint' ed honorary colonel of the 17th (Ruahine) Regiment The Hon. A. M. Myers went to Auckland on Thursday ni^hfe. The Hon. G. W. Russell has gone to Rotorua. He will be absent for about a week. ( Mr. Paul Dnfault, the well-known Canadian concert singer, arrived by tho Moana yesterday, and went south the same evening for Dunedin, where ha Begins his New Zealand tour on Mont day. Mr. F. A. Lang, a 'well-known Mel boume business -man, arrived from Papeete by the Moana yesterday, on hig way home to Australia, after a holiday trip. ■ 'i.wo Australian architects, Mr. Ai Barham Black, of Adelaide, and Mn J. W. Burns, of Brisbane, wore passengers from San Franoisco by the Moana yesterday. The American Consul -General (Mr, Fuller) arrived in Wellington .by the Moana yesterday. Mr. 0. Kohn, a merchant at Ra.rotonga, was an inward passenger by the Moana yesterday. Mr. Malcolm. Ross, New- Zealand's official war correspondent, has been granted the. "honorary rank of captain during the period of the war. Mr. R. Vf. Dalton, H.M. Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, who has been in Australia for the last four weeks ( will return to Wellington in'the Moeraki due here on Monday. Mr. 0. J. Cussen, Assistant Government Poultry Instructor, arrived from Cbristahureh yesterday to attend: the Poultry Conference. • From time to time' the question, has been raised that the State "should undertake the supplying of 6chool books to pupils free .of charge. It has also been represented that the books should be of a uniform style throughout the Dominion, tihe prixioipal reason advanced for this being the iax imposed on parents who may transfer from one education district to another through having to purchase for their children new 'sets of nooks*as used in tho particular di'striot'to which - they movo.' Questioned on this matter, tho Hon. J. A. Hanan, Minister 'of Education, stated thatout of the'funds appropriated by Parliament for the purpose of school and class libraries in' publio schools, each Education Board is paid at an annual capitation of Bd. for each child in average attendance in the district during .the year preceding that for which the grant is made. It does not appeal ■to be generally known, said the Minister, that regulations are at present in existence providing for the supply of. free class" books in necessitous cases, also in cases where newly-entered pupils have already purchased elsewhere class books different from those in use in the school. _ Desiring telephonic communication with Otaki, a Waikanae resident states that he recently spent twenty minutes in securing the desired number, because the mysterious decrees of the authorities have made it necessary for .all bureau communications ' between tho places named to go through Wellington, using 100 miles of wire to cover a dis-tance-of 10 miles. . There have been set up recently in the four chief centres of New Zealand what are known> as Municipal Officers' 'Associations. Delegates of these associations met in conference in Wellington on Thursday, there being present two ChristohuTch delegates, one Auckland, and two" Dunedin delegates. The main issue of the meeting was a decision to set up a Dominion Executive. In.the evening the visiting delegates -were.tendered a dinner at. the Commercial Hotel, the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) presiding. The delegates expressed themselves confident that a, great deal of good -would arise ifrom their organisations, not only for the members, but for the centres they represent. Messrs.. J. B. Merrett, J. N. Green, J. Balcli (Christchurch), H. Christie (Oamaru), C. J. Norton (Ashburton), and E. Oswald Reilly (Dunedin) arriveJ by the ferry steamer yesterday to attend the poultry conference. Mr. J. H. Pagni has been appointed Acting-Consular Agent for Italy at ■Auckland. ■ . Dr. Charles Chilton has been appointed a member of the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute, vice Mr. A. H. Turnbull, resigned. ' Mr. James Georgetti Iba3 been reappointed by the Government to the Wellington Land Board. Mr. James Boyd has been appointed to the Marlborough Land Board. Mr. B. Reveley, jun.,- has been appointed a member of the Kimberley Domain Board, in place, of Mr. Charles Eaves, resigned. Appointments are gazetted' of members of Assessment Courts, under the Valuation of 'Land Act, in certain districts. Mr. H. Ernest LeigSton is papointed for Makara County, and Mr. John E. Lane for the Counties of Waipawa, Dannevirke, Waipukurau, and the Borough of Hastings. '