PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 8, 9 July 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE-REGAL.

This afternoon the delegates-' to the annual conference of tho New Zealand Farmers' Union and their wives are the guests of the Governbr ; Geiieral and Lady Bledisloc at Government House. This evening Their Excellencies will attend the. twenty-first annual meeting of the Wellington Branch of the British Sailors' Society.

Mr. A. M. Burns, of Christchurch, is going South by the Maori to.-night.

■Colonel Studholm is returning South by to-night's ferry steamer.

Tho Rev. F. S. Ranison,' who -was'unable, owing to ill-health, to'be present at the last, meeting'of the Diocesan Synod, has resinned his duties... as clerical secretary of the Synod. Mr. W. J. Salmon is lay secretary.

, Mr. E. B. Williams, of the Government service in the Federated Malay States, who-an-ived by the Tofua from the Islands, was a-, passenger on Tuesday by the Limited Express front, Auckland, ft'

Mr. W. J. Poison,-M.P., was te-ciav-re-olectc-d unopposed as Dominion 1 president of the New Zealand Farmers' Union., •_,.. ; ....'■■

Mr. C. -J. B. Norwood, ,'acc'ompaniod by his wife■ and' daughter,; is.a passenger bythe-UUniaroa to-day; for.Sydney; en route to England:on a health trip.- Mr.' Norwood will "probably roturn to New Zealand in'November.'My. Trevor Fisher, the:.Wellington; pianist, was a passenger oh the tJlimaroa for Sydney to-day, '"Mr. Fislier is travelling to Vienna to further bia musical studies, ■ "■

'Among tho guests at tlio ft: Midland Hotel arc the Hon. E.ftVV. A'lisoi) and tho Hon. J, B. DoualiTi and Messrs. B. Beckerley, S. Harrowell, A, H. Gaze, H. D. 'Nolan, 0. Nicholson,. A.„,'F.''.:Kllis (Auckland), F, G. Goldinglia,m'(P'a,'lnicrston North), C. P, Agar and' E* Hay. (Christehur'eh), D. S. Riddiford (Featherston), and Taylor (Dunedin).

Members of the Customs ■ Department mot last evening to bid. fareSyell' l<> Mr, F. AY. Fisk, who, is'retiring*'after twenty-six years'" service, in" thc'ftCustoms 'Department. Mr. Fisk'.joined the Department in 1905 at Wellington-, and ■in 1908-was.' transferred to.'Lytralfoii as a searcher. Ho returned:"'to. AVellington in 1913, and at tlie 'limb Wilis' retirement, was senior.. searcher;;, "Mr. Fisk was a most' popular officer.' Tie is held in high esteem by the shipping companies, and this evening the companies are making,a presehtatioh' to. him. At -the ceremoiiy lastftevoniugi Mr, A. Paul, tho Collector ~of Customs, in presenting Mr." Fisk'" ;with a silver aftornoon tea service* spoke in glowing tfrnijj of'his work. Mr." FDavics, chi>< inspector, Mr, F. Comes, sub-collector, and Mr., E. .Oottei'lll, acting boarding inspector, also spoke, A special presentation to Mr.'Fisk : was, made by members of tho boarding inspector's office last Friday. • ; '■ -'