PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 48, 20 November 1925, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. G. J. Anderson (Minister of Industries and Commerce) will return from the' south, where he has been attending the opening of the exhibition, to-morrow. Hon. Sir James Parr (Minister of Education) left for Auckland yesterday afternoon in order to fulfil several departmental engagements in that city. He is expected back about the middle of next week. Lord Liverpool will not visit New Zealand next year as intended, owing to the serious illness of Lady Liverpool’s father. The Director-General of Health (Dr. Valintine) returned to Wellington yesterday from a visiK to the hospital board” districts of the South Island. Mr. W. D. Lysnar, V M.P. for Gisborne, arrived in Wellington yesterday afternoon. Mr. T. W. Rhodes, M.P. for Thames, will be a passenger .by the north bound limited this 4 evening. Mr. C. H. Backhouse,, secretary of the National Dairy Agfociatipn, was a passenger from Frankton junction by the limited yesterday afternoon. The Chief Mechanical Engineer of Railways, Mr. G. S. Lynde, lefts, for Napier yesterday on departmental business. ' Mr. H. 11. Sterling, a member of the Railway Board, will leave Wellington this evening for Auckland. A Press Association message from Hawera reports the death of Mr. Richard Alfred Rawson Welsh, aged 63. He was a well-known solicitor, and had been a resident of Hawera for many years. Mr. F. H. Muirhead, of the Public trust Office, Wellington, has been appointed deputy-district public trustee at 1 imaru. The appointment of a Board of Management for the marine fish-hatchery and biological station at Portobello, Otago, is gazetted. The members will be: Hon. G. M. Thomson, M.L.C., Professor W. B. Benham, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Messrs. A. E. Heffard,»C. W. S. Chamberlain, and G. E. Howes. Mr. Arthur D. Wylie, associate editor of the “Lyttelton Times,” who has accepted a similar position on the Svdnev “Bulletin,” was the guest of the Christchurch branch of the Journalists’ Association at afternoon tea yesterday, and presented with a gold pencil and gold-mounted fountain pen, on behalf of the executive. The presentation was made by Mr. M. E. Lyons, M.P., president of the association.—Press Assn.