PERSONAL.

Evening Star, Issue 14040, 22 April 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The following promotions and transfers in the Post and Telegraph Department are announced:—Mr W. S. engineer',' Wellington, to he telegraph engineer at Auckland in place of Mr W. G.f Meddings. who is being retired, as he has reached the age limit; Ma- C. C. Robertson, telegraph engineer at Nelson, succeeds Mr Furby at Wellington; Mr H. W. Harrington, officer-in-charge of the local telegraph office, is promoted to the position of~telegraph engineer .at Nelson. Mr C. B. Mann, assistant controller of 6tores, is promoted to the position of controller of stores at • Wellington, in place of Mr J. Black, who has been retired, having reached the age limit. The Press Association states that, at the Grand Hotel, Wellington, last evening, Mr T. Hamer, Under-Secretary for Mines, who is about to go to England as auditor in the High Commissioner's Office, and Mr T. E. Donne, head of the Tourist Department, who will be in charge of the commercial department of the High Commissioner's Office, were entertained by the Ministry, in token of farewell. Advantage was taken of the occasion to bid farewell to those heads of departments who have lately been retired. Mr Thomas H. Laby, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, lias been appointed professor of physics at Victoria College, Wellington, anal Mr Charles A. Cotton, at present director of the Coromandel School of Mines, has. bean appointed lecturer in geology at the same institution. Mr A. G. Allan, an old and respected resident of Green Island, died suddenly. Mr Allan, wito was a schoolmaster at Green Island in ihe early days, was eightv-three years of age, and with Ma- Blair and others was • instrumental in the formation of tho Green Island Riflo Volunteers, as well as in n-any other public matters. Inspector Thomson has resigned his position in the City Corporation as assistant inspector of nuisances. The Hon. Mr Hall-Jones, High Commissioner for New Zealand, attended the conferment of the freedom of the Patternmakers' Company upon Lord Ranfurly. The i-esignation of the Rev. Father Keogh, rector of St Patrick's College, has been accepted. He will be succeeded by the Rev. Dr Kennedy, of Meeanee, who will bo replaced by the Very Rev. Dean Smith, of Hastings.—Wellington telegram. A Wellington message states that" Miss Rita Rabono has been awarded one of three exhibitions offered annuallv bv the Asso-! eiaied Board of the RA.M. and R.C.M., Ixjtdon, to candidates at the Board's examinations in Australasia who show exceptional musical ability. Miss Rabone is a pupil of St. Mary's Convent. Wellington, and is entitled to a free course of 'tuition ra singing at the Royal College of Music. She leaves for London to-day, Mr Robert Scott, M.P., who has resigned tho secretaryship of the Maniototo branch of the Otago Farmers' Union, was presented by the members with a gold watch, bearing his monogram and an inscription. Nurse Godfrey, of Dannevirke, has been appointed matron of the Gisbome Hospital. The Education Board to-day appointed Mr Edward Pinder head master of the Normal Sehool in succession to Mr A Marshall. Ma' Pindea- took his B.A. degree in 1895, and M.A. the next year, and he has a record of fket-cjass reports from the inspectors over twenty-eight years' continuous service under tho Otago Board, the £?* eight- years at tho Mosgiel District High School. Amongst his other successes, Mr Pinder took the Stuart prize at the University for physics, and a senior scholarship m mental science. A Wellington message states that Mr Joseph M'Reavey died this morning, aged eighty-seven. He came to tho colony in the early days, and fought with the 65th Regiment in the Maori War. Mr E. F. Dnthie, president of the Otaco Agricultural and Pastoral Society, had In' enthusiastic send off by the members of tho society this morning on the evo of his departure for the Old Country. Mr W. J. Charters (vice-president) "occupied the chaiT and was supported by Messrs James Hazlett, J. Angus, W- Souter, W. Patrick, and W. L. Philp, Charters, Hazlett Angus, Souter, J. F, Woodhouse, and J. Brown all bore testimony to Mr Duthie's many good qualities, and laid special stress on the valuable work done by him when secretary of.the society. Mr Duthie, in returning thanks, referred to the many advantages to be gained by being a member of the society, and mad.-, particular reference to the great done by the ™ Messrs Brydone, Cunjjigham Smith, Charters, and George Roberts. To those gentlemen and others the credit was due for the position in which tire society stood at the present time. He was disappointed to think that they only had a membership of 700. He trusted that their fanners, traders, importers, and business people would recognise that in becoming members they were furthering the interests of a sociotv promoted for the purpose of extending our agricultural interests, on which tho prosperity of the Dominion depended. H. P. Murray-Aynsley, chairman of the New Zealand directors of tho New Zealand Shipping Company, is taking a trip round the coast on tho company's steamer Ruapehu, which arrived ai Port Chalmers this morning from tho Bluff. He prooeeds north with the vessel to-morrow afternoon.