PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 90, 16 April 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Prime Minister, Mr. Massey, left fur the South on Saturday evening.

The Bishop of Wellington will visit Martinborough on Friday next, to open St. Andrew's Pariah Hall.

Mr. D. Robertson, ex-Public Service Commissioner, and M». Robertson, will leave for England by the Botorua in June next.

Mr. H. E. Moore, formerly chief clerk at the- Maaterton Post Office, has been appointed postmaster at Waipukurau,.

Mr. Peter Gilfedder, of Invercargill, who has been attending the present sittings of the Native Appellate Court, returns South tonight.

The Rev. 0. W. Williams, who, for the past two years has been principal of the Kikurangi Maori College, has been appointed to a.position on the staff of Christ's College, Christchurch.

Mr. J. Laurenson, secretary of the Wellington Waterside Workers' Union, who has been ill for some weekß suffering from pleurisy and bronchitis, has recovered sufficiently to be able to resume his duties to-day.

Mr. Matthew Cable, electric engineer of the'Wellihgton City Corporation, who has been in England in connection with the ordering of the plant for the new power-house in Evans Bay, is a passenger by the Niagara, which should reach Auckland next Friday. Mr. Peter Menzies, at one time a prominent member of the Merivale rootball ' Club and a Canterbury representative for many years, has retired from the position of first-assistant at the West Christchurch School.. He had been first-assistant for over thirty years.

Mr. Evan Parry, engineer-in-chief of the English Electric Company, London, arrived in Wellington {O-day by the Tainui. He has come to New Zealand to attend the official opening of the electrification of Arthur's Pass Tunnel, and will remain in New Zealand for about three months.

Mr. George H. Turton, manager of Australasia of Royal Insurance Company, Ltd., who has been attending a meeting of the council of the New Zealand Fire and Marine Underwriters' Association, held in this city this week, left for Wanganui, en route for Auckland, on Saturday. Mr. Turton, accompanied by his daughter, sails for Australia' by the Niagara on Saturday next. •■