PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 133, 1 March 1929, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) will leave to-day for Gisborue, iu order to unveil the memorial to the late Sir James Carroll. He expects to return to Wellington on Wednesday or Thursday of next week, but will leave soon after for Southland, where he is to be entertained. The Minister of Industries and Commerce (Hon. J. G. Cobbe) left Wellington last night for Feilding. The Minister of Public Works (Hon. E. A. Ransom) left Wellington yesterday for Featherston. The Minister of Justice and Defence (Hon. T. M. Wilford) will leave to-day for Wanganui on matters connected with his department, and will return to Wellington early next week. Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, is suffering from a chill (states a British official wireless message) and is confined to his room. Mr. W. E. Barnard, M.P. for Napier, was a visitor to Wellington yesterday. Mr. Harold Francis Bollard, of Wellington, was on Monday admitted by Mr. Justice Herdman as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. .

Mr. Marcus Marks has received an instruction that he has been reappointed as the Government representative on the Wellington Fire Board. The appointment is for two years. The resignation of Dr. M. H. Aitken was received with regret yesterday by the Hospital Board. Dr. J. E. K. Brown has been appointed by the North Canterbury Hospital Board as assistant medical officer at the tuberculosis institutions. The Rev. W. A. Hay, formerly of the Durham Street Methodist Church, Christchurch, has been transferred by conference to Western Australia. Mr. F. Shand, Inspector of the Insurance Office of Australia, and a member of the executive of the Insurance Guild, is at present in hospital to undergo an operation. Mr. Gordon Morrison, of Christchurch, a graduate of the Canterbury College School of Engineering, has been appointed supervising engineer for the Christchurch City Council, in charge of the work of erecting the new Carlton bridge. Mr. Morrison won one of the travelling scholarships in connection with the School of Engineering, and lias visited America aud other countries to study engineering methods.

The members of the Arbitration Court, Mr. Justice Frazer and Messrs. G. T. Booth and A. L. Montieth, with Mr. J. A. Gilmour (registrar), left for Palmerston North yesterday. After completing a sitting of the Court there they will go on to Napier, Gisborne, Tauranga, and Auckland. Mr. Harry Kenneth Bullock, of Wellington, Judges’ Associate, was yesterday admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court by His Honour Mr. Justice Herdman, ActingChief Justice, on the application of Mr. H. H. Cornish.

Dr. Simpson, who has acted as honorary assistant specialist at the Wellington Hospital for some time, was yesterday appointed by the board a senior member of the honorary staff, and it was decided to advertise for an honorary assistant specialist for the eye, ear, nose and throat department, to replace him.

A resolution expressing the high esteem of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation for the two retiring advisory accountants to the Department of Industries and Commerce, Mr. G. W. Clinkard, appointed as secre-. tary to the Administration of Samoa, and Mr. L. J. Schmitt, appointed as employers’ representative on the Arbitration Court, and the hope that they would meet with every success and happiness in their new spheres of action, was passed by the Manufacturers’ Conference yesterday. On behalf of the federation, the president (Mr. F. Campbell) presented each officer with a small token of the federation’s regard. The Manufacturers’ Conference yesterday passed a motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. T. Ballinger. “Mr. Ballinger,’-’ said the president (Mr. F. Campbell), “was a stalwart In the manufacturing world for many years, particularly to Wellington and to New Zealand in general. I am sure I am only voicing your opinion when I say that in the passing of Mr. Ballinger the manufacturers lost one of their best friends.” Reference to the death of Mr. Thomas Ballinger was made by the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup) at last night’s meeting of the City Council, of which Mr. Ballinger was formerly a member. “His life was spent in Wellington, and for Wellington,” said Mr. Troup. “We are now building on the foundations laid by him and others of his time.”

Professor W. Hewitson, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, who has been on a visit to Wellington in connection with church matters, will leave for Dunedin tonight.

At the Nelson College Board of Governors’ meeting on Wednesday, Miss C. Mcllaffie, DI.Sc., of Palmerston North High School, was appointed assistant mistress, and Miss Muriel Searle, of Christchurch, physical culture mistress at the Girls’ College. Mr. R. G. G. Dalgleish, of Gore High School, was appointed as the additional master to which the Boys’ College is entitled because of the increased attendance this year.