PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 127, 21 February 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. Lord and Lady Jellicoe will leave Auckland! on March 2. They propose to spend /March and the early part of April in tho South Island. His Excellency will cross from Wellington to Picton in the Veronica on March 4, and will stay at Blenheim, from March sto 7. At Blenheim His Excellency will lay the foundation stone of a Masonic temple on March 5, and will attend tho races on March 6. Ho will travel to Westport by motor through the Buller Gorge on March 8, and to Reefton and Greymouth on March 11. Visits to mines in the neighbourhood of Westport and Gi'eymouth are being arranged. Her Excellency and the Hon. Lucy Jellicoe will join His Excellency at Greymouth on the evening of March 13, and will proceed with nim to Hokitika, Ross and the Franz Josef Glacier, where thev will arrive on March 14.

Their Excellencies will return to Christchurch on March 18 and travel to Timaru on March 20, where. His Excellency will perform the opening ceremony of the High School Memorial Hall. His Excellency will later go deer stalking at the head of Lake Wakatipu.—Press Assn.,

The Prime Minister (Right Hon. W. F. Massey) will leave for Auckland to-day. The Minister of Health (Sir Mau! Pomarc) leaves to-morrow for the north. He will be at Rotorua at the week-end, proceeding to Te Puke on Monday. The Minister will lay the foundation stone of the new hospital at Tauranga on .Wednesday, and on Thursday he will proceed to Auckland, tn attend the annual conference of the New Zealand branch of tho British Medical Association. The Attorney-General and Minister of External Affairs, Sir Francis Bell, is spending a week in Otago. Dr. Barnett, who for 34 years has been a member of the honorary medical staff of the Dunedin Hospital, has resigned his chair as from tho end' of tins year. He has been connected with the Medical School for over 40 years, says a Press Association message, and will not sever his connection entirely.

Mr. P. A. Fildes,CA.lnst.M.E., engineer in charge of the Scaffolding and Lifts Act, Department of Public Works, Sydney, arrived from Sydney by the Maritina this week, having been detailed by the N-S.W. Government to gain an insight iitto the administration and working of the Dominion’s machinclry legislation. Mr. _ Fildes is an erstwhile resident of Wellington, seiwing his apprenticeship with Messrs. S. Luke and Sons, when for a. period he was a marine engineer with the Union Steam Ship Co., and prior to taking up his appointment with the N.S.W. Government was in business in Dunedin as an electrical engineer. Major A. B. Butterworth, 0.8. E., MA.. LL.B., who has bebn appointed French master at King’s College, Auckland, has arrived from England to take up his new position. Major Butterworth, who was educated at Blundell’s School ami Cambridge University, entered tho Army in 1910, and served with the forces until the end of the war, and in recent years has been engaged coaching for the Royal Ho is keenly interested in most of the athletic sports enjoyed by New Zealand youths, but has speciab’seo in boxing, having won tho Army and Navy boxing championship in the light-weight division on two occasions.

Mr. C. M. Croft, assistant Canadian Government trade commissioner _ in Auckland, has heen visiting Wellington.

The death is reported of Mr. Arnold Hart, who was president of the Waipu branch of tho Farmers’ Union, manager of the Waipu Shinning Company, and secretary to the Waipu Agricultural Society. He leaves a wife and two children. Mr. F. H. Popo, manager of the Auckland branch of the State Fire Insurance office, will retire from the Government service at the end of this month, and will enter'into business on his own accdmt in Auckland. Mr. Pope. who has occupied bls present position for 13 years, is one of the two original members of the State Fire office' still in the Department. He has hold the positions of president of fl l ' Auckland Insurance Institute and chairman of tho local branch of the Public Service Association.