PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 94, 15 January 1926, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Education (Hon. Sir Janies Parr) left last night for Dunedin. In addition to attending to educational and post office matters in Otago, the Minister will spend some days at the exhibition. The Hon. Sir Francis Bell, AttorneyGeneral, is in the South Island. The Hon. F. S. Boyce, K.C., member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, is visiting Christchurch. Mr. W. H. Field M.P., left Wellington last evening for Mayor Island, Bay of Plenty, for a week’s sword and shark fishing. Mr. Field will join parties from Auckland and Tauranga at Tauranga, and they will then proceed to the island from Tauranga by launch. Mr. A. W. Green, late manager of rhe Ruakura State Farm, who was recently transferred to Hawke’s Bay, has resigned from the Department of Agriculture, and will go in to private business at Hamilton. Mr. J. J. Rodgers, first assistant at Island Bay School, has been appointed headmaster of the Kaiwarra School. Mr. M. J. O’Connor has been appointed headmaster of the Pahiatua District High School. Captain Hanson was a passenger by the Main Trunk express to Wellington yesterday. A private cable message reports that Captain J. H. Gordon, master of the steamer Northumberland, has died at Sydney, He recently went ashore at Sydney on sick leave and succumbed after a brief illness. The deceased was well known in Wellington, his last visit to this port being in the Huntingdon. Mr. John H. Chapman, of the economic section of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, Geneva, is due in Wellington next week. He was formerIv in the New Zealand Customs sei vice. At present he is on furlough, and lie recently arrived in Australia by the Mongolia. Mr. Chapman, who left New Zealand in June, 1921, is accompanied by Mrs. Chapman and family. He will return to Geneva early in March, but they will remain in New Zealand for the remainder of the year.