PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 224, 9 June 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Massey was tendered a public reception in Dunedin yesterday afternoon, which .vas largely attended, considerable enthusiasm was displayed. Tho Mayoress handed to the Primo Minister a present for his wife, a wristlet watch; diamond studded, and bearing this inscription: —“To Mrs. W. F. Massey, from iho citizens ot Dunedin, as a token of their esteem and regard.”—Press, Assn.

The Hon. Dpnald .Mackinnon. the nowly-appointed Australian Commissioner to the United States, passed through Auckland by the Makura on his way to Washington. A tribute to the services of Sir Frederic Lang as member for the Manukau district was paid at a large gathering of dairv farmers. at East Tamaki. Mr. F. W. Waters, chairman of the Manukau County Council, presided, and there were present representatives of all shades of political thought. Sir Fredrdic Lang was presented with a solid oak clock.

Mr. A. Newton, Conciliation Commissioner, has left for the West Coast in connection with council business. The Rev. R. Franklin, vicar of Hawera, who for eleven years past has served in Wellington diocese, is about to sever his connection with it. He has accepted the benefice of fl’rotton, ■%ar Petersfield, in the Chichester d’oeese, states the “Church Chronicle.”

Dr. Wilson, superintendent of the Wellington Hospital Board, left Auckland on Wednesday evening for Vancouver on his mission to inspect the equipment of rhe latest and most up-to-date hospitals in Canada and, th® United States. He is expected to be away about four months.

Mr. E. D. Holdaway, accountant at the Masterton branch of ->he National Bank of New Zealand, has been transferred to Te Aro branch, and will be succeeded by Mr. W. M. Nairn, of the 'Te Aro branch. A number of police transfers were announced yesterday. Detective Russell, of Nefson. is to go to Palmerston North, and Mounted Constable Hall, of Taranaki Street, will transfer to Nelson. Constable Audley is. to proceed from the Port Station, Nelson, to Napier, and the vacancy at Nelson will be filled by Constable Brydone, of Wellington. Constable Le Fevre, of Upper Hutt, is to change places with Constable Wallace, of Lyall Bay. Tho members of the Australian Davis Cup team. Messrs. J. O. Anderson, J. B. Hawkes, R. E. Schlesinger, and I D. Mclnnes. were passengers by tho Makura. en route for Hawaii, where they play the first round (American zone) of the Davis Cup contests. i