PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 163, 28 March 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Defence (Sir Heaton Rhodes), and tho Minister of Mines, and Labour (Hori. G. J. Anderson), left for tho South Island last night. Sir Heaton Rhodes will today receive a deputation from Rakaia residents, in regard to the closing of tho Magistrate’s Court there. Accompanied by Mr. Anderson, he meet representatives at Taumutu of the Ellesmere County Council, and tho Golden Sands Dredging Company, in connection with tho comnany’s application for a license to dredge on the beach. On Thursday afternoon, ho will officially open the new school at Prebblcton, and on Sunday he is to take part in' the • unveiling of tho memorial tablet at Papanui Town Hall and library. On Wednesday next, Sir Heaton Rhodes precedes to Hamner Springs, to see the soldier patients in hospital. On this visit he will be accompanied by the Surgeon-General Sir Donald McGavin. He will also inspect the State forest plantations with tho Director of Forestry (Captain Macintosh Ellis). Colonel Hartley and Mr. C H. Gibson, of MacLaren’s English -team of cricketers, returned to New Zealand by the Manuka yesterday. It is their intention to spend a month here, the majority of tho time fishing at Taupo.

Senor Umberto Bidone, who has been appointed Consul-General for Argentine in New Zealand, has taken up his residence in Wellington. He is accompanied by Sonora Bidone, and family. Mr. Thomas Humphries, F.R.A.S., of Lower Hutt, who recently retired from membership of the Surveyors’ Board of Now Zealand, has been the recipient of a resolution of appreciation of his services thereon for the past eoventeen years, forwarded by the new board. Air. Humphries, who was at first chairman of the board in’, his capacity of Surveyor-General, and on his official retirement was nominated yearly as member by tho Government, has been.closely connected with tho higher technical, branches of tho work of tho board, and has passed through his hands a largo number of men who are now the loading exponents of the profession, and who will re-echo tho board’s regret that his advanced ago has made it necessary for him to withdraw from active participation in professional work.

Mr. William Pilliet Pringle, of Wellington, solicitor, -was yesterday admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of New Zealand by the Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, on the motion of Mr. J. J. McGrath. Mr. M. A. Carr, of the firm of Mandel and Carr, will leave for Sydney by to-morrow’s steamer. He will return by way of Auckland. Mr. R. McKeon, M.P., left for Palmerston North yesterday to take part in tho Conciliation Council proceedings in the grocers’ assistants’ dispute. . Mr. Cvril Ravin, who is touring tho British Empire for the purpose of inquiring into immigration matters on behalf of the Y.M.C.A., arrived at Wellington ycstci'day from Australia. ' Mr. Waller Fuller is leaving for the United States shortly to represent tho Fuller Vaudeville Company’s interest in that country.for a few months.

. Mr. T. W. Rhodes, M.P., at tho request of a deputation of business men, has consented to nomination as Mayor of Thames, reports the Press Association.

The death is announced from London of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Hounsom Butler Fellowes, “father of tho British Navy.” Ho was born in 1827, and entered tho navy in 1845 Ho served at tho landing of the Allies nt Vera Cruz in 1861, in tho Black Son during tho Crimean War, 1854-6. nnd commanded the Naval Brigade in +bo Abyssrian Wa of 1868.