PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Minister of Lands (the Hon. A. D. M'Leod) has .returned to Wellington. Tho Minister of Pu'-lie Works (the Hon. K. S. Williams) is", expected to return from the Rangitikei district' tonight. . '..,., ', The.Minister of' Labour,'. Mines, and Marine (the Hon. G. J; Anderson) will .l._.ve for, the South to-night. After visiting nis - electorate (Mataura), ho will attend the Gore Show, nd then return to Christ- urch on Friday. On Saturday he will proceed to Greymouth and thence to- Westport in connection with harbour matters. Mr. Anderson' expects to return- to • Wellington towards 'ho middle of next week. A Press Association cablo message f rin Lond n states . that Sir Francis Bell and Miss Bell are passengers on tho Corinthic. . ■ i . The Commissioner for the North Island (Mr. P.: Hally) will leave for the North to-night,- and will return to •Wellington next week. The Secretary of the' Post and Telegraph Department (Mr. G. M'Namara), will'leave for Auckland to-night. -He will be absent for a few-days. Dr. Flett has been appointed junior assistant in the anatomy department of the Otago University' for the year 1927, and Mr. N. L. Edson has been appointed junior assistant .in the department, of physiology for the same period. •'- ' After a month's absence in Australia in connection with the work of his Department, Dr. E. Marsden, permanent Secretary, of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, returned to Wellington to-day from Sydney. The following teachers" have recently been appointed by the/Wellington Education Board:—Mr. J. E. Shimmin, head teacher, Eketahuna.'. District High ■ School; Miss. H. T. Tolley, assistant, Mangaitainoka; Mrs.'J. B. Carr, sole teacher, Saratoga (Marlborough ward). Dr. T, Hfi-jh, tho distinguished organist,. Who visi.eu New Zealand this year as examiner to the Associated Board, R.A.M. and R.C.M., has accepted the position of organist at Sydney Cathedral, and will take up his duties there early next year. ■ ' The Very Rev. C. W. Carrington, M.A., dean of Christchurch, intends to retire at the , end of 1927, telegraphs "The Poit's" Christchurch correspondent. He. has' been identified with the diocese for nearly twenty-five years. He came to NewZealand in 1903, to be principal of the Christ's College, upper department, and he has exercised a profound influence on the thoughts and affairs of the diocese and of the Church in New Zealand. Dean and Mrs. Carrington will probably return to England to live. . Mr. William Signal, aged 66 years,, died at his residence at Foxton last evening as the result of a.heart seizure, states a Press Association message. The deceased was a marine engineer, and one of tho best-known men in coastal shipping in the Dominion. For many years he was.part owner of the Queen of the South, and on behalf of Levin and Co. he went to Scotland and supervised the construction of the steamers Himatangi and Awahou.. He leaves a widow., two sons, and two daughters.. The friends of Mr. Alexander Gilmour will regret to hear of his death, which occurred at his residence, Hill street, after a short illness. The- late Mr, Gilmour came to New Zealand in 1890 and settled in Hawkea Bay, where he was a well-known sheepfarmer. He retired about a year ago, and has since resided in Wellington., Mr. Gilmour is survived, by a. widow, two sons' and; a . daughter—Mr. W. '_"■., Gilmour; (Hawkes Bay), Mr. J. Ay Gilmpur, Registrar of the. Arbitration Court, and-Miss Celia Gilmour. The Dominion Meteorologist (Mr. D. C. Bates) has received advice that he was re-elected a member of the International Commission of Agricultural Moteorology at the international ■ gathering of meteorologists at Zurich in September last. Mr. Bates was , first elected to the position six years ago. Members of ; the Commission for England are Sir Napier Shaw, Dr. Simpson, and Mr. B. A. Fisher, of the Rothamsted experimental station. . Sir Napier Shaw was. formerly director of the London Meteorological Office, and Dr. Simpson now holds that position. The Australian member on the. Commission is Dr. S. Griffith Taylor. _