PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 169, 12 April 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vice-Regal. • His Excellency tho Governor-Gen-eral, accompanied by Captain Curtis (private secretary), left for Auckland by yesterday’s express. The Minister of Lands (Mr. Guthrie) returned from the Auckland district yesterday. The Minister of Agriculture (Air. Nosworthy) has returned to Wellington from the South Island. The Minister of Education (Mr. Parr) left for Christchurch last night. This morning he will visit several of the schools in Christchurch in connection with requests made by local members of Parliament and committees for further accommodation. In the afternoon he will open a new high school at’ Rangiora. To-morrow he will meet the Canterbury Education Board and afterwards? will inspect the Technical School. Ito will then go on to Hanmer, which has recently been taken over by the Health Department from the Defence authorities. At Hanmer he will spend the Easter holidays.

Mr. P. G. Jackson, headmaster of the Queen’s Park School, Wanganui, has been appointed headmaster of Manchester Street School, Feilding.

Captain E. M. Wright, of Melbourne, who arrived by the Tahiti on Monday, was, on his return from the front, staff officer for invalids and returned soldiers, and then received the appointment of Government Secretary in the Territory of New Guinea. He was also secretary of the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria. The Rev. J. Cocker, who is retiring from the pastorate of the Masterton Methodist. Church, was born in Calver, Derbyshire, sixty years ago, and came out to New Zealand as a Methodist minister in 1890, since when he has been stationed at Ashburton, Feilding, Wanganui, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch, and Masterton. He was president of the Primitive Methodist Conference before the union, and for many years has been editor and assooiate editor of the principal church publications. Mr. Harold Beauchamp left for San Francisco, en route to England, by the Tahiti yesterday afternoon. Bro. Amos Tomlinson, High Chief Ruler of the Rechabites, from Southport, England, is at present visiting the chief centres of the North Island. Bro. J. IL Lear-Caton, Fast Chief Ruler, is on a similar mission in the South Island, and Bro. John Vale, scc-retary-in-chief of the Order in Victoria, is visiting tho branches on the West Const of the South Island.

Mr. J. M. A. Hott, managing director of J. Hott, Ltd., left bv tile Tahiti yesterday for the United States, England, and the Continent. Prior to his departure, he was made the recipient of a Kaiapoi travelling rug. bearing' his monogram, and presented by the combined staffs of the ’Wellington-, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin offices of tho company. Mr. W. L. Chapman, manager, in making tbe presentation, referred to the wonderful growth of the organisation, and to the high standard of efficiency attained in all sections, both of which facts testified to Mr. Hott’s able directorship and organising ability. The rug, he said, was only a slight tangible expression of the esteem in which Mr. Hott was held by all members of file staffs at Wellington and branch offices. Mr. J. AV. Smyth, Christchurch manager, farewelled Mr. Hott on behalf of the Christchurch staff, and apologies from Auckland and Dunedin branch managers were received. Mr. Ilott, in responding, expressed his appreciation of the spirit of camaraderie which existed amongst the executives and staff —they were a big happy family. The staff also took tho opportunity of presenting Mrs. E. Hott, a director of the company, with a framed group of individual photographs of the executives and branch managers, as a mark of their good will and loyalty. Mrs. ,T. M. A. Ilott, who accompanies Mr. Ilott on the tour, was handed a morocco-bound diary, with suitably embossed cover. Both ladies thanked the gathering for their good wishes and gifts. Tho, gathering concluded with many expressions of good will for the travellers, who expect to be away from the Dominion for about six months. Mr. Edwin Johnson, of Ludlan Street, Seatoun, has returned from a visit to Auckland.

Dr. Ernest Boxer, of Hastings, will leave England about the end of March on his return to the Dominion.

A lengthy resolution framed by the Rev. Dr. Kennedy Elliott, conveying the condolences of the Presbytery to Mrs. Hannay, on the death of her late husband, Mr. W. M. Hannay, was passed ajt the meeting of tho Presbytery last evening. The late Mr. Hannay held many offices in the Presbyterian Churchy

At tho meeting of the Presbytery last evening, it was resolved to send a letter of felicitations and congratulations to Mrs. Marchbanks (mother of Mr. J. W. Marchbanks, the engineer to tbe Harbour Board) on attaining her hundredth birthday. The Board of Governors of Marlborough College hap appointed Mr. John Stewart, M.A., of the Ashburton High School, principal of the college, vice Dr. J. Innes, resigned.