PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 124, 18 February 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Elliott Johnson, Speaker of the Commonwealth Parliament, left for Sydney by the Moeraki last evening. Sir John Macfarlane, Dr. AA r . B. Wishart, Rev. S. O’Kelly, and Major F. C. Mitchell were among the passengers who left for Sydney by the Moeraki last evening. #

Mr. A. T. Markman, Assistant Secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department left on a holiday trip to Sydney by the Moeraki last evening. He was accompanied by Mrs. Markman. Mr. Dunbar Sloane has announced his iutentioir of becoming a candidate tor the City Council at the April elections.

Mr. J. R. Gibbons, chief reporter of the "Evening Post," is confined to th o Bowen Street Hospital with a serious illness.

Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt has been appointed Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga and Chief Judge of the High Court of tTie Cook islands. Mr. Cnlford Bell has been appointed elocution judge for the Gisborne competitions to be held in September next. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ball,’ of (San Francisco, who have been touring the North Island, have left AVellington on a visit to Mount Cook and other places of interest in the South Island.

Councillor AV. J. Gaudin left for the South last evening.

Mr. Freeborn Parsons, of Marlborough, is to leave on a trip to England by the Corinthic in April.

Mr. E. J. Gravestock, representing J. and N. Tait, who has been in New Zealand since Deccin-fier in connection with the contemplated tour of the A r erbrugghen Orchestra, now abandoned, left for Sydney bv the Moeraki last evening.

The quarterly report of the -Management Committee of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association states that Messrs. F. J. Ohlson, 11. R. Cooke, E. W. Griffiths, and 11. G. Thomson., all of Auckland, havo been appointed the Appeal Council, to hold office until 1923.

Mr. N. S. Falla, general traffic manager for the Union Company, left for Sydney by the Moeraki last night.

A Press Association message from Te Awamutu reports the death of -Mr. Charles James Storey, aged 87. Deceased was one of the pioneer settlers of ilie Waikato, having resided there since and before the -Maori ware.

Dr. Victor Parkin, who has been ap K ppinted physieian-in-chief of the psychopathic department of the Los Angeles Country Hospital, is an ex-pupil of the Albany Street School, Dunedin, and the son of Air. J. Parkin, late of Castle Street, Dunedin. Dr. Parkin was for eight years a. member of tho staff of the hospital at Patton, and has won a reputation as one of the leading experts on mental disorders in the Slate ot (..aliicvnia, s-ayS tho Dunedin “Star.” r