PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 53, 30 August 1912, Page 7

PERSONAL MATTERS

'\ Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, ar- • rived in Wellington from Auckland yes- "\ terday. and leaves again ttt-ttlorrow to go to Wangartui where he will preside at the Suprenie Court session. News has been received that Mr. Allan '}, MacDougall, of Wellingtoil, one of the '] Rhodes Scholars, has been elected to an I Assistant Lectureship in English 1 Language and Literature at the Not- | tingham University. I The Conciliation Cdtataissioiier (Mr. 1 V. Hally) returned to Wellington from I the Soivtn this morning. j Mr. Justice Chapman returns to WeiI lington from Pahiiel'stoft North by the j Napier express this" evening. '- Mr. C. M. Whittington has been reI elected chairman of the Ha-wkes Bay Education Boar<l, states & Napier Press Association telegram. Mr. M. Marctls, manager for RickaroV Vaudeville Cdnipany, which hag been touring New Zealand, will be a passenger for Sydney by the Md'eraki, en route i to Adelaide to i'esUirie the Managership | Of the TiVoli Theatre 1 in thai city. I Mr. Justice Siitt leaves Wellington on 1 } Monday for Napier, where the district sittings of the Arbitration Court open. Captain 'M'Afthui- (Maotiland S.S. Company) has booked" passage for Sydney" to-day. Mr. R. M. Simpson, general manager in New Zealand for the Phoenix As- , surance Company, hag booked a passage . by the Marmora, leaving London on 9th September. Mr. J. F. Atkins (Walker and" Hall) '.leaves for Sydney to-day. While ,in Sydney he will endeavour io nlakd arj yan^ements for a visit of a team of Aus- .; tralian crack swimmers to Wellington. The hew Collector of Customs at Wel- ] Jington, vice the late Mr. C. B. Nixon, "I will be Mr. E, R, Brabazori, at present i Collector at Dunedin. Mr. Brabasion, | who is well known in Wellington, hayI ing been stationed here sonle years' ago, I is a native of Auckland, and has been I in the Customs service for thirty years. I He will take up his duties here at the 1 beginning of October. Until then Mr. I W. Rose, landing waiter^ will continue 1 ia act as Collector at Wellington, and I Mr. Arthur Duncan as landing surveyor. I Mr. T. M. Cullen, Collector at Nelson, I is to succeed Mr. Brabazon at Dunedin, J and Mr. W. Dovenish, now in charge I at Greymouth, will take up the duties lof Collector at Nelson. The vacancy I at InvercargiU, caused by the appoint1 ment of Mr. Spence, Collector there, to \ the position of Customs Expert for New I , Zealand in London, is to be filled by a Mr. W. J. Wratt, at present landing 'I surveyor at Dunedin. Other promotions ■in the service have been decided upon JabJ ab follow :— Mr. W. Howarth, landing waiter at Christen urcb,, to be Collector - at Greyfnouth ; Mr. R. J. Eccle&field, , Collector at Hokitika, to be senior landj ing waiter at Christchurch \ Mr. P. i . ■ Pnull, senior landing waiter at Dun- '» edin, to be landing surveyor at Dun- * ( edin ; Mr. F. C. Ji Fantham, landing ; waiter at Christchurcb, to be Collector jat Hokitika ; Mr. W. Wallace, clerk at 1 Wellington, to be landing waiter at I .Christcnurch.