PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1924, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

Their Excellencies the Governor-Gen-eral, Viscount Jellicoe, > and Lady Jellicoe , left Wellington to-day on farewell .visits, to Wanganui and New Plymouth. They have : accepted an invitatioi} to attend the races at Wanganui, and on Friday His Excellency will open the new woollen mills at Aramoho. Their Excellencies have arranged to arrive at New Plymouth on Monday next, and to return to Wellington on 18th September .Whilst at New Plymouth, His Excellency will..unveil the, War Memorial Cenotaph and present, his. shooting trophy to the Now, Plymouth High School. • ; .' .

Their Excellencies and their family expect to leave the Dominion for England by the-Tahiti, sailing from Wellington on or-about 25th'November.,- They -propose to sail from Melbourne by the s:sMongolia! on 23rd December.

Mr. John Burnett, -■■headmaster of Paraparatimu Public School, has succeeded. Mr. IT.'Mason as first assistant of the Hutfc District High School. :

Mr. J, I. :Monta'gue," of Auckland, arrived by this morning's ferry and leaves for Auckland by to-morrow's express. Mr. Montague has been adjudicating' iv the elocutionavy sections of the Greymouth annual competitions.

A tribute to 'the- gener.il efforts of Mr. U. N-. Goldie in the interests of lawn tennis in tho Dominion was made at a meeting of the Council of the Wellington Provincial Lawn Tennis Association last evening.. Mr. Goldie's name ■was particularly mentioned in cohwction with the proposed. courts at Mir'amar. It was stated that Mr. Goldie had lately been suffering from indifferent health, and, on medical, advice, he was leaving on an extended holiday trip The. following motion was carried by acclamation: -"That this meeting wishes Mr. Grridie a pleasant holiday, a speedy recoveiy, and a,;. safe return to New Zealand." Mr. Goldie leaves for Sydney on Friday. " ■■■-. ',-■ J