PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 137, 7 December 1923, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. J. G. Coatcs (PostmasterGeneral and Minister of Public Works and Kailwaya) left, Te Kuiti yesterday on a visit of inspection to the Thames and Coromandel districts. He is expected back in Wellington about 12th December.

. The Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Justice and Education), who is at present visiting Australia, is not expected back in New Zealand until Christmas Day or Boxing Day. He will return to Auckland instead of Wellington. '

Mr. Justice MacGregor returns- to Wellington to-morrow night from Gisborne.

Mr. L. Bilks*, Chief Government Electrical Engineer, is at present in Dunedin.

Major R. Miles, D.5.0., M.C., New Zealand Artillery, is proceeding to England for the purpose of attending a twoyears' course at the British Staff College.

Mr. P. W. Woodroffe, of the Chief Accountant's Office, New Zealand Railways, ■■ who has recently undergone an operation, has recovered sufficiently to return to his home.

Mr. C. E. Ball, an officer of the State Advances Department, was on Wednesday admited aa a solicitor of the Supreme Couit by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout),, on the motioni of Mr. J. B. Christie.

Mr. J. C. M. Evison has been appointed Deputy Resident Commissioner for the Cook Islands. Mr. Evison has had lengthy service in the island territories of New Zealand. Formerly Resident Commissioner at Niue, he has until now held the position of Superintendent of Schools at Rarotonga.

Mr. A. F. Roberts, New Zealand Commissioner to the British Empire Exhibition, is at Christchurch. He is accompanied by Mr. C. G. Camp-, secretary of the Dominion Advisory Council of the British Empire Exhibition;

The appointments are gazetted of Mr. James Duncan Thomson as Commissioner of Crown Lands arid Chief Surveyor for the Hawkes Bay land district,, and Mr. John Stevenson as Commissioner of Crown Lands* and Chief Surveyor for the Marlborough land district.

Mr. Thomas M'Cormack, an old and respected resident of Dunedin, died a few days ago, aged 82. Born in Dublin, the late Mr. M'Cormack came out to New Zealand many years ago. He took a keen interest in industrial matters, and was ever to the fore in promoting the well-being of those in his employ and of the workers as a. whole: In association with Mr. (now Sir Robert). Stout, Messrs E. T. O'Connell, A. H..Shclton Dr. Fltchett, and a few others, he founded the first Protection League in New Zealand, and he' wielded a facile pen in tho interests of that body. He was a man of fine intellect and of distinct- literary attainments, and at various times he won open competitions as an essayist on such themes as "The Colonial Youth" and Protection," and he was a valued contributor to the coloumns of the "New Zealand Tablet" on ancient Irish history. ;■-..-;