PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Commissioner of State Forests (the +n°TO?r B; Heaton Rhodes) will Mfam to Wellington from Taupo on Saturday. A Press Association message from Napier states that Mr. J. D. Thompson, chief draughtsman at Auckland, has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands at Hawkes Bay. to^iv ?" J T - M<Gowan, member of the Wellington Harbour Board and recently elected president of the Wellington Civic League, leaving Wellington on Saturday next on a trip through the North M. v<n ' M'Gowan will accompany Mi. \[ Go wan, and they will be away for about a fortnight. * A Press Association message from Gisborne states that the Hon. J. G. Coates yesterday inspected the authorised route ot the Gisborna Southwards railway, and spent the night at Ruakituri. Mr Ooates left this morning for the Urerewa country The Minister is accompanied^ by Mr. K. S. Williams, M.P Ar.V,? ur£ ert ' Engineer-in-Chief, Mr. M Villy, General Manager of Railways, and Mr. Jones, Assistant Engineer of Railways. Citizens of South Canterbury last mght presented a public testimonial to the Hon. J. Craigie on the eve of his extended tour of Great Britain, Europe j and the East, states a Press Association message from Timaru. The meeting was representative of all sections of the community, and was marked by much enthusiasm. A lengthy address was presented, outlining Mr. Craigie's many serviceson all the public bodies in Timaru also in Parliament, and enumerating his many public gifts. The address was accompanied by a handsome, massive silver salver. Speeches made were of a highly appreciative nature. _ A resolution was carried at a meeting of the Auckland branch of the Political Reform League recording high appreciation and grateful thanks to the Hon. W. F. Massey for his splendid work at the present and past Imperial Conferences, on behalf of the Empire generally and New Zealand in particular, and pledging those present to do their utmost to maintain him in office. The resolution also expressed the hotie that, in the interests of Empire unity, the decisions of the recent Imperial and Economic Conferences will be upheld by the British constituencies, especially in regard to Imperial preference and defence, at the elections next week. During the evening the Hons. W. D. Stewart and W. Nosworthy delivered addresses. A resolution of sympathy with the relatives of Mr. F. Cooper, secretary of the Canterbury Employers' Association, who died on Monday, was passed at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Employers' Association this morning. The president, Mr. T. S. Weston, said Mr. Cooper was probably the hardest working-^ and most conscientious of the secretaries of the various associations affiliated with the federation. He always had the interests of his association and of the federation at heart; furthermore, he was a thoroughly human man, whom it would be difficult to replace, and he was the best statistician the federation ever had. The meeting recorded its regret at .Mr.. Cooper's death, delegates standing in silenoe as the motion was declared carried.