PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 18, 21 January 1921, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Justice Her'dman returned to Wellington from the North yesterday. Mr. J. Cra.igie, M.P, for Timaru,~is on a visit to Wellington. Mr. J. O'Shea, City Solicitor, is on a visit to Dimedin.. Mr. Arnaud M'Kellar. general manager of the Blackball Coal Company, arrived in Wellington from the South to-day. ■Mr. E. E. Gillon, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Railway Department, has returned to Wellington from Auckland. Mr. L. Birks, Chief Government Electrical Engineer, is visiting the west coast "of tho South Island in connection with electrical power schemes. Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice, will, for health reasons, '-make his projected journey to England by the ddTect route. H« will visit the United States on his return at the end of th« year. Mr. E. Page, S.M., who has been in Wellington, lias returned to Auckland, where he will preside over the sitting of the North Island Railway Appeal Board. Mr. Walter J. Jones, editor of the Southland News, has been ■! appointed governing director of,that company and the Oamaru Mail Company in succession to the late Hon. George Jones. •Mr. Richard Wornall, who died 'at Broomfield on Tuesday, had resided in Canterbury for 70 years. He belonged to the Pilgrims, and as a boy of six'years came out. with, his parents in the Sir. George Seymour, which - arrived •in December, 18S0. , ;Sir Thomas B. -Robinson, who was for ten years Agent-General for Queensland, and who was Director of Imperial Meat Supplies during the war,, is about to tajce a trip round the world. He will first visit New Zealand, where he intends to stay for. two months. ' ' Messrs. M. Fraser and F. J. Hill, of New Plymouth, are in Wellington on business connected with the Taranaki : Hospital Board. Mr. Hill, as. DeputyMayor, will also, in company.with the borough 'manager (Mr. F. T.'BelLrihger), • interview the -Minister for Finance',con: cerning borough matters. ',;..;. . On leaving the employment of the .Wellington City Council Tramways Department, Mr. E. R. Cameron was the recipient of a handsome leather travelling bag, the gift of his fellow^gmployees of the night shift of the three tramway sheds. Mr. Cameron, who has been in the City Council'sl empjoy for the-past nine yeaa-s, is leaving Wellington to take up fruit farming in the Blenheim district. :• -. *i ' Mr. H. H. Ostler, of the legal firm of Messi's. Jackson, Russell; Tunics, and Ostler, Auckland, and formerly of the Crown Law ; Office, has ( been on a biggaans hunting expedition in Africa Ho is expected to return to Auckland by the Sealda in June. He has.visited British East Africa, Rhodesia, and German ■Bast_ Africa and the borders of the .Belgian Congo, and has shot over a, hundred head of big game, including a lion, elephants, and .buffalo, '■ . .