PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 176, 13 April 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. His Excellency the Governor-General attended a meeting 0’ the Executive Council at Dunedin yesterday morning, and left for Invercargill in the evening. He will be joined by Lady Jellicoe and party on Saturday, proceeding to Stewart Island, and returning to Dunedin on Monday. Lord Jellicoe will confer honours at an investiture of St. John Ambulance Brigade on April 20, leaving for Christchurch on April 23. —(Press Assn.)

Tho Alinister of Public Works (Mr. Coates) is expected to retain to Welling early next week. The Alinister of Railways and Lands (Mr. Guthrie), who was expected to return to Wellington yesterday, will probably not arrive until next week. The Hon. C. J. Parr met the Otago Education Board in conference. at Dunedin yesterday morning, and visited several public schools. .Ho is expected to return to AVellington tomorrow. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes and the Hon. Cl. J. Anderson left Dunedin for Tapanui yesterday afternoon. Sir AVilliam Fraser and. Sir Francis Bell left Dunedin yesterday morning on their way back to AVellington, after attending a’ meeting of the Executive Council.

Mr. E. P. Neale, M.A., LL.B., 8.C0m., assistant to- Professor Murphy, Professor of Economics at Victoria. University College, has received advice by cablegram that he has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Science for his thesis on the “Demography of New Zealand,” a treatise on the vital statistics of' the Dominion.

Captain John Taylor Marshall, late of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, with which regiment he served in India, died in 'Wellington yesterday morning. He was a. son of Captain James Marshall, of tho Inniskilling Dragoons. Arriving in New Zealand in 1865, he joined the Armed Constabulary . . and later commanded the Nelson Military District. Subsequently he saw service in the South African War. He leaves a widow and one son and five daughters—Mr. T. H. Marshall, Mrs. W E. Rawson. Mrs. H. R. Thomas, and Mrs. A. D. Briggs, of Wellington; Mrs. S. J. Gill, Masterton; and Airs. F. Wood. Perth-

Mr. V. R. Meredith, of Auckland, is visiting Wellington. Mr. L. G. Packard has been appointed Deputy-Registrar of Births and Deaths at Petone.

/Air. G. F. Church has been appointed superintendent of mercantile marine at Awanui. for the purposes of the Shipping and Seamen Act. Mr. Walter George Taylor,i of Titikaveka, has been elected European member of tho Island Council of Rarotonga.