PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1925, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

On the advice of his Ministers and of the health authorities, the Governorbeneral (Major-General Sir Charles Fergusson) has decided to abandon the ofncial visit which he and Her Excellency had arranged to make to Christchurch, Dunedin lnvercargill, and limaru, during the next three "weeks. 11ns decision has been made in order to avoid the risk to children which Would be entailed by large public gatherings ot citizens during the prevalence of the epidemic of infantile paralysis. For the same reason Their Excellencies have postponed similar visits, which they had contemplated making to Wanganui, New llymouth, Pntmerston North, Napier, and Hastings. For the present they will remain in residence at Government House, Wellington. . , ■ On Saturday last' His Excellency the Governor-General received a deputation of six members representing the Returned Soldiers' Association. Their Excellencies gave a dinner party at Government House.

Her Excellency, Miss Fergusson, and staff attended the organ recital given at the Town Ball by Mr. Bernard F. Pa°- e , the City Organist, on Sunday. On Monday Their Excellencies gave a dinner party at Government House, and yesterday His Excellency was the chief speaker at a luncheon given by the Rotary Club.

Sir Joseph Ward has returned to Wei Jmgton from Auckland.

The Hon. H. L. Michel arrived from the-South by the Wahine this morning. The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. B. F. Bollard) is expected to return from Wanganui to-night.

The Minister of Railways, Public Works, and Native Affairs (the Hon. J. G. Coates) will leave to-morrow night on a thres weeks' tour of the South He will visit Clmstchurch, Dunedin, Central, Olago, lnvercargill, and other districts. ■

Mr. J. Caughley, Director of Education, arrived from the South by the Wahme this"morning.

Mr. J. W. Collins, secretary of the Board of Trade, was a passenger by the/ W atone from Lyttelton this morning. ' Mr. At T. Markman, "Secretary of the P. and T. Department, is visiting' Auckland. Dr. T. H. A. Valintme (Director-Gen-eral of Health), will return to Wellington from Wanganui to-night. The Eev. G. H. Morse, lately vicar of Porangahau, has been appointed rector and vicar of Hanworth, Norwich, whose patron "is Lord, Suffield. Dr. F. Gordon Bell, the new professor of surgery at Otago University, is expected to arrive in Wellington by the lonic about the middle of this month. , Mr. W. A. Veitch, M.P.', who has been in_ the South on business hr connection' with the Liberal-Labour Party, returned to Wellington by this morning's ferry steamer. ■' ' Mr. A. S. Campbell, who has had charge of the transport and train running at the Dunedin railway station is being transferred to Christchurch as the railway superintendent for the South Island. .-■.--. Included among .the passengers who arrived in Wellington by the Wahme from Lyttelton this morning was '■Uiptain A. W. Pearse, Australian, and New Zealand representative of the Port of London Authority. . ■ . . > ■ 'Mr. E. A. James, general 'secretary, Mew Zealand Political Reform League, who is absent in Australia on a healthrecruitmg trip,- is reported to be recovering. He will return to New Zealand by the first available steamer. Mr. E. A. James, general secretary Mew Zealand Political Reform League, who is absent in Australia on furlough, is reported by last mail to be recovering his usual health, and will return to New Zealand by the first available steamer, i Dr. Fisher, who has been appointed to the professorship of economics at Ota"o University, journeyed from England to Australia by the Mooltan. He proposes ™*iSr"i v' Om Sydney f°r Wellington on 20th February. Mr. H. L. Horraan, of the "North Canterbury News," Rangiora, and formerly of Taranaki, has been appointed headmaster of the Salvation Army's orphanage school at Temuka, in place of Mr. J. H. Worboys, who has been ap-, Minted "to the St. Matthew's Victory bchool, Springfield road, Christchurcli.

Mr. Will Lawless, who for some time lias written the boxing news for "Fair Play," has been appointed boxinT editor of the Sydney "Referee," "Times," and "Arrow." Mr. Lawless is the Australian representative of the New Zealand and Wellington Boxing Associations.

Mr: F. A.. Grant, until recently Commercial Agent and General Inspector in the Railways Department completed 40 years' service with the Department last week, and has retired. For many years Mr. Grant was chief clerk'to the Traffic Manager, Christchurch, and five years ago he went to Auckland as Assistant Traffic Manager, and later he was Traffic Manager at Ohakune,' relinquishing that position to take up the post of Commercial Agent and General Inspector. The death of Mr. C. E. Matthews, Controller of Prisons, was referred to at the last meeting of the Prisons Board, which passed the following resolution: ' That this board desires to convey to Mrs. Matthews its sincere sympathy with her in her great bereavement, and wishes to record that, in its opinion, the Dominion,- in the passing away of' Mr. ■Matthews, has lost an able and faithful administrator, whose services to the people of New Zealand cannot be overestimated." 1.

Advantage was taken by the primary school inspectors gathered in conference to-day to heartily congratulate the Minister of Education, the Hon. Sir James Parr, on the honour bestowed upon him by His Majesty the King. Mr. T. R. Fleming, Senior Inspector, of Otago, voicing the congratulations of the delegates, said that he believed that the honour was not alone an individual honour, but was one for the educational system o{ the Dominion. Sir James, in lhankiug the delegates for their kindly wishes, said that he, too, considered that the honour was very largely an honour to the service of education in New Zealand. His five years as Minister of Education had not been easy years, they had-, been particularly strenuous, but he had no regrets.