PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 14, 17 January 1921, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Sir Thomas and Lady Mackenzie returned to Wellington from Auckland on Saturday. <' Mr. P. J. O'Regan has returned to Wellington after a visit to the West Coast. Lieut.-Colonel F. Symons, of the New Zealand 'Permanent Staff, has been appointed officer-in-charge of the training camp at Burnham. Sir John Macfariand, Chancellor of |.'Melbourne University, is visiting New [..Zealand,' for-tho purposes of troutiish.ing.ni the Cold Lakes.. t .'' ;Sir, Robert" .'Stout, Cliief Justice, has returned to Wellington from the South Island, and will preside at the meeting of the University Senate, which opens in Parliament Buildings 611 Wednesday. Another West Coast pipneer, Mr. Thomas M'Clean, died at the GTey River Hospital on Thursday last. The late My... M'Clean, who was 60 years of age and a native of Scotland, came out from the Old Country about thirty years a.go. ' Mr. W. E. Leadley, secretary of the Canterbury Returned Soldiers' Association, will leave Christchurch on Tuesday to attend tho first, Empire Conference of Returned. Soldiers' Associations in Capetown next month. The other New Zealand delegate is Mr. H. J. Knight; Mr. Leadley will bo away for about three months. Mr. \V. C. Purdie, who lias been appointed lecturer in chemistry and physics at Lincoln College, studied at Victoria College and the Teachers' Training College, Wellington, afterwards going through his agricultural course at Lincoln, gaining the college diploma. He has completed his B.Sc. course, and has taken nearly all his examinations in the B.'Ag. course. He has had five years' laboratory experience in the Pahtological and Bacteriological Laboratories, Wellington (Public Health Department).