PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. F. M. B. Fisher is at Auckland, the Hon. W. H. Herries at Gisborne, and the Hon. W. Fraser is due in Wellington from the south to-morrow. The other Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington. Senior-Sergeant Darb is leaving for Auckland, and Mrs. Dart received a present from the Tlnaru Force yesterday as a token of tl'e esteem in which her husband was held. Sub-Inspector Cruickshanks and his comrades spoke I very highly of the departing officer. Mr. J. Conlin, sub-foreman of the photo litho. branch of the Government Printing Office, is , retiring from the service, with which he has been connected for 46 on a well-earned pension. Yesterday evening Mr. D. Ross, 011 behalf of the staff, presented Mr. Conlin with an illuminated address and a travelling rug. In doing so he referred to Mr. Conlin's many sterling qualities, and exhoTted the younger members ol the staff to endeavour to follow in hi 6 steps, and cultivate that strict cense of duty and integrity that had placed Mr. Conlin in the position from which he was retiring. These remarks were endorsed by several other members of the staff, and Mr. Conlin's health was drunk ■with musical honops. Mr. Conlin, with his wife and family, leaves shortly for Australia, where he intends to spend a long holiday. Sir G. Maurice O'Rorke, who is shortly leaving on a visit to the Old Country, will be the recipient of a public presentation beforo' his departure. Sir Maurice arrived in New Zealand in tho year 1854, entering the Auckland Provincial Council tho following year,, and for nearly fifty year* be has "been closely and continuously associated with tho public life of the colony. For twelve years ho was Speaker in the Provincial Assombly, and later filled Mr. Speaker's chair in iho House'i of Representatives for two d-ecades. his name becoming a household word for the dignity and decision with which, bo invested his lofty oflicc. Since 1904 Sir Maurice has been a member of tho^ Legislative Council : for many years he has been chairman of the Auckland University College Council and of tiic Grammar School Boa-rd of Governors, while shice 1879 he has occupied a seat on the Senato of the University of New Zealand. In August last Mr. C. F. Goldie was commissioned by n, representative committee to paint Sir Maurice's portrait, and, tho v/ork being cwnpletol, arrangements have been made to have the- poi trait presented on sth jMarch, in tho [Tniversity College Buildings.