PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 131, 6 June 1925, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL, His Excellency the Governor-General and Lady Alice Pergusson will leave for the" South on Monday evening to pay an official visit to Dunedin. Their Excellencies will be absent from Wellington until 18th June. The Minister of Education and Justice, and Postmaster-Genera) (Sir James larr) left for Auckland last night. He will be absent from Wellington for about a week. Mr. R. W. M'Villy, late General Manager of the New Zealand Railway*, was the guest of honour at a railway engineers' dinner at the Midland Hotel last evening. Other guests were Messrs. James Burnett, l-\ W. Mac-Lean, and V. <L Jones, former Chief Engineers. Air. F. Widdop, the present Chief Engineer, presided. At the conclusion of the dinner the company attended the Grand Opera House. Messrs. M. A. Kelly. W. 08. Reeves, A. Wells, and \V.' E. Budd, of "The Dominion," were farcwelled by their confreres of the literary staff vestcrday afternoon. Messrs. Kelly, Reeves, and Wells have resigned in order to seek wider .journalistic experience overseas, and Mr. Budd will shortly join the staff of "The Evening Post." ■ °

Mr. H. S. Alpe left for the South last night in order to represent the Wellington branch of the South African veterans' Association at the annual convention of that body, to be held at Christchurch to-day. Mr. Frederick Harrison, secretary and librarian to the Wellington District Law bociety, is relinquishing that position on Monday, and will leave shortly on a holiday. He will be succeeded by Mr. i• " j Hawkins > AV«o has recently retired from the position of Registrar of the Supreme Court. An informal farewell will be tendered to Mr. Harrison at the bupreme Court library at 9.30 a.m. on Monday. The council of the Law Society has expressed its appreciation of Mr. Harrison's services in a valedictory resolution., which records its sense of the great services which Mr. Harrison has rendered to the society and to the le"-al profession. The resolution adds: "He has for many years been recognised'as the chief repository of the legal tradition in the district. His experience and knowledge have becii freely.placed at the service of successive councils, and his advice and assistance on matters.of professional practice have been at'all times freely available to practitioners and by them greatly valued. The council hopes that lie may long enjoy his leisure years.