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Evening Star, Issue 14534, 9 December 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL

Mr L. B. Wilson, oT tho Railway Department, has been appointed a Judge of the Native Land Court. Mi- It. B. Vincent, assistant secretary and accountant to tlie Treasury, is retiring. Mr Mowbray is to be promoted to* the position of accountant, and Mr Gibbi' to the position of chief clork in the Treasury. ' .' Green Island School Committee recon> mend Miss Dotting for the position of. junior assistant. >■ Mr T. W. Balfour died at Napier yes« terJay at the age of eighty-sis. He wai on tho staff of tho Bank of New Zealand for many years, his last position being" that of manager at N;;pi..-r. • . The Hun. T. M.-.ckcnzie left for tfc» Mount Cook Hermitage by the first express' l this morning. ■ Mr G. L. Petersen, in charge jof HJg:. advance staff of Messrs Wirth Bros.' Ch> 7 cus, is in to .vn for the purpose of making ( arrangements for tEe opening on Chrtntt/ mas Eve (Saturday, December 24). j King George anil Queen Mary will vrsii Amsterdam in the summer of 1311. ' Mr P.. a Corliss, Commissioner o£ Stamps, is paying a. brief visit to Xhmednc, on departmental bueinees. Mr Walter T. Berry, who was formerly',' in tho employ of the Telegraph Depart- ' ment. and latterly in the head office of the .) Union Steam Ship Company, haß beea '. appointed wireless operator on. the com- . pany's steamer Aorangi, trending between Wellington and San Francisco. Mr Berry r who is just over twenty years of age, ha 4 been studying wireless for eome timet