PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 126, 1 June 1927, Page 11

PERSONAL MATTERS

VICE-REGAL.

The Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusso'n/ returned- to Wellington by the Limited express this morning from Hamilton^- - ;.-. .. , ... The Minister of Agriculture" (the Hon. 0. J. Hawken) will return from the South -on Sunday. ;■.■■■ ... The Minister of Education (the Hon. B. A. Wrighti) will arrive back in Wellington to-inoMow evening.. . • The Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon, B. F. Bollard) returned yesterday from Huntly. ' ■ Chief-Detective E. Ward, of Wellington,- who is.-'-oa annual leave, has returned from the North. Captain A. W. Peaxse, representative for the I'ort of London Authority in Australia and New Zealand, was to leave Sydney for Ceylon by the Orsoya on 28th May, accompanied by his two daughters and Miss Dulcie Isherwood. Mr. Henry Spurrier, M.1.M.E., managing director of Leyland Motors, Ltd., is in Wellington, preparatory to starting south on a, trip over the whole of New Zealand, with the object of .investigating heavy traffic .conditions. , , Messrs. W. lorns and W. Motion, members of the Dairy Produce Control Board appointed to-act for the board on its London agency, returned by the Corinthic to £day. Neither would discuss the question of control. Mr. C. T. Harris, B.At, assistant master at Wellington College, has been promoted to resident assistant senior form tutor in Trench at Wanganui Collegiate School. Mr.. Harris, who has had a very successful career in his profession, is an. old boy of Wellington College, anil, a graduate of "Victoria University .College. . '. ". Mr. F. JiO'Meara, chief' accountant of the Auckland branch of the Union Steam Ship Company, retired on superannuation yesterday after 43 years' service, telegraphs : " The Post's" Auckland correspondent. He was transferred here frdm-Gisborne in. 1889. He has been a member of the Newmarket Borough Council for 17 years. Mr. P. Fleming,.who is retiring from the Government; Printing-Office staff after thirty years' service owing to illhealth, was last evening the guest at a large .assemblage of the -staff.-'' The Government' Printer} who eulogised Mr. Fleming's long and:faithful record of service, presonted him with an ornamental clock 1, on .behalf of the bookbinding branchy and an inscribed wallet on behalf of the girls' branch, over which Mr. Fleming had; presided a3 Bub-overseer. ; ■ .- . .' A tribute to the: work of ]J£r..L. F. Ayson, recently Chief Inspector of Fisheries,-was paid by tb,J chairman at the annual meeting of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last night. The report of the society states: "He retires with the assurance that,,in spite of all disadvantages, he has built up a record of-; indomitable endurance and physical-labour of which any man might be proud. ,He. takes with him the most sincere good .wishes of -the society's members -for his -future.. Never again will the -Dominion receive the same benefit for the- same remuneration."