PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 28, 2 February 1907, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

Messrs. Cuddie and Singleton, of the Dairying Division of the Agricultural Department, left for the South last night. The Rev. W. Douglas, M.A., of Hokitika, and the Misses Douglas are at present on a holiday visit to Wellington, and are tho guests of Mrs. M'Dougall, Brougham House. Mr. George R. Drury, who has severed his connection with Messrs. Badham and BisSy after six years' service, received a preientation to-day from the staff of that firm. The funeral of the late Mr. W. L. Hirst will take place at Wellington ; the body being brought down from Palmerston by the midday train on Monday. The interment will bo made at the Karori cemetery. In view of his forthcoming marriage, Mr. M. Green, of the staff of Messrs, Bates and Lees, received presentations yesterday afternoon from the firm and from the workroom employees of the establishment. Mr. G. B. Dall for many years chief clerk in the Dunedih Post Office, was the recipient last night of a handsome present at ion by the postal staff in the southern city on his promotion and transference to Wellington. The presentation took the form of a gold chain, with Maltese cross, and a smoker's outfit. Mr. G. Anderson Hutchison, a Rand journalist, is on a brief visit to New Zealand after an absence of some seventeen years. During the late eighties Mr. Hutchison was associated with the Meirose Football Club, and on the field and as a member of the executive ho played a prominent part in the early successes of tho «)d and blues. Mr. A. A. Kirkpatrick, Chief Secrdtary for South Australia's Department of Agriculture, is departing for Australia to-day, afttr speeding a few weeks in New Zealand, principally e.i Christchurch. Conversing with a Post reporter to-day, Mr. Kirkpatrick spoke glowingly about the Christchurch Exhibition. He expressed gratitude to tho people of New Zealand for kindness shown to Mrd. Kirkpatrick and himself. Miss Lfittrenfiftn. and -Miss Ivey haye been 1 appointed instructor of dressmaking and instructor of cookery respectively in the Wellington Technical School. The appointments of an instructor for the painting and decorating class has been left in the hands of Mr. T. Carmichael and the director (Mr. La Trobe). Ar-Tangc-ments are to be made, if possible, for an expert to act as instructor for the boot pattorn-cutting class. Ths Wellington foung Men's Christian Association «s shortly to receive a visit from Mr. Lyman L. Pierce^ the National Secretary of the Y.M.C.Jrs. ih Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Pierce was general secretary of the V.M.C.A. at Washington, U.S.A., in which town he organised the association so well that in a very short period it ontgraw its building, and in a campaign lasting, two weeks, £75,000 were raised for tho erection of new premises. The old building is to bo handed over to the Boys' Department on completion of the new building. Mr. Pierce is at tho present time in Chriotchurch, where he is helping to organise the work and push the association on. He has recently visited Invercargill and Dunedin on a similar mission, and will arrive here on 14ub inst. Arrangements are being made for Mr. Pii'rce to deliver an illustrated .lecture entitled "In 'the Wake of the Setting Suri,'^ on 15th February, which will include pictures of tha United States. South Sea Islands, and various parts of Australia.