PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 98, 26 April 1921, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. Arthur Myers, M.P., is in Wellington.

Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.P., Leader of tbe Opposition, has been on a visit to Auckland.

Mr. H. Gerard, recently secretary to the Samoon Administration, has been appointed secretary of the Public Service Stores Tenders Control Board.

Mr. C. H. Whitehead has been elected to represent the Palmerston North Committee on the Council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society..

Commissioner H. Hodder, officer in charge of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, returns to Wellington from Auckland to-day. '

Mr. R. M. Ritchie, of Wanganui, has received official notice of his election as a member of the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.

_ Dr. F. Antill Pockley, of Sydney, arrived yesterday by the Ulimaroa for a short visit, en route to the Islands, and will stay with his brother, Mr. Harold Pockley, Brooklyn.

Mi. C. E. Cole, who for some time has been with the legal department of the Public Trust Office, Wellington, has gone to Bunedin to join the legal firm of Aslin, Dawson, and Brown.

Mr. A. L. Moore, director of the New Plymouth Technical School, and Mr. R. J. Thompson, director of the Ashburton School, have been appointed representatives on the Appeal Board in connection with technical and manual training classes.

A cable message from Brussels states that King Albert gave an. audience to Mr. Htigh Ward, and expressed his deep gratitude for the assistance given by Australia and Australians during the war. Mr. Ward also interviewed Cardinal Mercier and Burgomaster Max.

The farewell gatherings at Aria and Te Kuiti last week to Mr. W.T. Jennings, M.P., prior to his departure on a holiday tour, were enthusiastic. At Aria many settlers rode twenty miles to be present, and the "send-off" at Te Kuiti railway station was striking, the member being carried shoulder-high, and " Auld Lang Syne" was sung at" both places. Presentations were also made to Mr. Jennings. . '

Mr.'A. T. Donnelly, who has been appointed Crown Solicitor at Christchurch, has been acting in that capacity since August, 1919. He is the elder son of the late Mr. M: Donnelly, of Christchurch. He was educated at the Boys' High School, and graduated at Canterbury College in 1912. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 1911, and entered into partnership with his father, who died in June, 1919. Mr. Donnelly is thirty years of age. He served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

It is reported that Sir Cecil Rodwell, Governor of Fiji, will join Lady Rodwell and their two children in Juno in the Dominion, and the party will leave for England. His Excellency has indicated that he will return to Fiji, but there are persistent rumours that ho is tired of all his troubles in Fiji, and may not do so. By the fire at Government Houso, His Ex- , cellency and Lady Rodwell lost all their personal property—clothes, valuable library, prints, silver, jewels, valued family relics, and collection of curios, and their loss runs into thousands of pounds.