PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 148, 24 June 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. R. H. Rhodes, PostmasterGeneral, came up from the South this,, morning. Mr. Justice Stringer \returned from Auckland to-day. His Grace Archbishop Redwood returned from Christchurch this morning. Mr. C. B. Pharazyn returned to Wellington from Sydney by the Marama to-day. l Dr. Spedding, senior house surgeon in the Auckland Hospital, went into camp at Trentham to-day. The Hon. A. T- Maginnity, M.L.C., and Mr. T. A. H. Field, M.P. » arrived from Nelson by the Pateena yesterday. Mr. C. E. .Daniell, of Masterton! the newly-elected chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, arrived in town yesterrloy. The Rev. A. J. Seamer, of the Methodist Circuit, Dunedin, has enlisted as a private in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. Among the passengers by the Maori this morning from Lyttelton were Hon. J. Paul, Hon. R. Moofe, Hon. H. F. Wigram, and Hon. C. A. C. Hardy. The following M.P.'s arrived by the ferry steamer from Lyttelton this morning: — Hon. D. Buddo (Kaiapoi), Messrs. J. Colvin (Buller), W No3worthy (Ashburton), E. P. Lee (Oamam), R. Scott (Otago Central), J. S. Dickson (Parnell), J. M 'Combs (Lyttelton), W. Downie Stewart (Dunedin West), T. K. Sidey (Dunedin South), L. M. Tsitt (Christchurch North), and P. C. Webb (Grey), Waipawa has lost one of its energetic residents in Mr. Jno. Duggan, of the District High School, who_ comes to Wellington to take up a position in the new Brittomart-sfcreet School. Mr. Dugg^an has interested himself in all civic affairs, and has helped patriotic matters along by his work as hon. secretary of the local Patriotic Committee and commander of the High Schoot Cadets. He has also been prominent in the Hawkes Bay Teachers' Institute. He was the recipient of several expressions . and tokens of esteem before he left Waipawa. Mr. T. N. Brodrick, at present Commissioner of Crown Lands in Wellington, will succeed Mr. James Mftckehzie as Under-Secretary for Crown Lands when the latter retires on superannuation. Mr. Brodrick, who was born, in London in' 1855, came with his Barents to Auckland in 1860 by tho ship Nimrod. He was educated, privately in Invercargill, and for a time was in the employment of Mr. H. J. Gibbs, of Cargill, Gibbs, and Co., merchants, of Dunedin. Subsequently he received a cadetship in the Survey_ Department under the Hon. G. F. Richardson, and was licensed, to practise as a surveyor in 1877. Mr. Biodrick then joined the Government Survey Department, and was one of the first of the original staff that went to Canterbury on the reorganisation of the Department by Mr. J. T. Thompson. He _ was engaged at first at Banks Peninsula on sectional surveys, and subsequently did much triangnlatioii and topographical surveying in the mountainous district of Canterbury, during which period he thoroughly explored Mount Cook and the Southern Alps. He was appointed District Surveyor for the Canterbury Crown Lands Department in 1887, District Surveyor in North Canterbury in 1895, and Inspecting Surveyor and Land Officer afc Gisborne in 1906. Since then he has held the office of Commissioner of Crown Lands in Hawkes Bay, Canterbury, and Wellington. Before the Land Board dealt with the business on its order-paper to-day, Mr. Joseph Dawson congratulated Mr. Brodrick on his promotion. He expressed his appreciation of the courteous manner m which Mr. Brodrick had carried out his duties as Commissioner and as Chairman of the board' during the past three years, thereby earning the good-will of the Crown settlers. He ventured the opinion that Mr. Brodrick's services as Commissioner had been of great value, not only to the Wellington district but to the Dominion generally. Messrs. James Georgetti and Charles M'lntyre endorsed the remarks made by Mr. Dawson. My. Brodrick suitably acknowledged the congratulations of the board.

At a sitting of the Arbitration Court to-day an application to amend tho Dominion plumbel!-.' award, as far as it concerns, suburban employers, \va. r , adjourned sine die. It was mentioned ns quito likely tlkt a settlement would be ttl between tho guilicst ,