PERSONAL MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1911, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS.

The Hon. G. Fowlds returnecr to Wellington from Wanganui and Palmerston (North yesterday afternoon. Mr. Justice Sim is due back in Wellington at the end of next -week, when lie will take up the civil business of tho fbupreme Court. Mr. S. L. Buick, one of "the proprietors of the Dannevirke Advocate, left for the South la-st night to attend the Press Association Conference at Queenstown. His Excellency the Governor has intimated his intention to be present at 4iie farewell banquet to Sir Joseph Ward »nd the Hon. Dr. Findlay on Ist March. Mr. C. W. Maxter, sub-editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, who has been spending hifc holiday leave in New Zealand, left for Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday. The directors of the Westport Coal Company and their manajging"director, ■Mr. Joachim, left Dunedin yesterday on their annual visit of inspection to the •jcompany's mines on the West Coaist. Mr. Eric_ Waters (son of Mr. F. V. iWater3, Chief Clerk of the General Posfc Office) has been notified that he has passed the first section of the New Zealand University examination for the jmusical bachelor degree. Mr. A. Ramsay, who has been associated with the Carterton Post Office staff for the past sixteen years, has been appointed to the position of postmaster at Mangaweka. Mr. Ramsay is a prominent member of the local Bowling Club and St. Mark's Masonic Lodge, and has done some useful service for these institutions. Messrs. D. R. Hoggard, E. Lyon, and 'J. L. Short liaye received unofficial iritimafcion of their success in the recent (University examination, each having obtained the LL.B. degree. Mr.- Percy iW. Burbidge has won a senior scholarship. Mi 1 . Robert Kennedy, M.A., LL.B., has been. notified of his success in obtaining the LL.M. degree, with first-class honours, while Mr. H. E. Evans, 8.A., LL.B., obtained the same degree with second-class honours. Miss Reeve has obtained the M.A. degree with second-class honours in mathematics.