PERSONAL

Evening Star, Issue 17087, 4 July 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL

At a special meeting of the General Laborers' Union on Wednesday evening the late secretary (Mr AL M'Allen) was presented with a gold chain and pendant in recognition of his long and valuable services on behalf of the union. Mr H. Kendal! (president) made tho presentation, and with other members referred in appreciative terms to the recipient's work on behalf of tho union. Mr Alexander Genie, produce salesman for tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd . Dunedni, on the occasion of his transfer to the Chri.Achurch branch, was presented last- evening by the local staff of the company with a piece of silver* plate in token of their goodwill. In m'air.mir the presentation the manager (Mr G. W Sare) refcried to the recipient's good work in connection with this branch, and wished him. on behalf of the (staff, eveiy success in his future cai eer. Mr A. E. Climo, Government Inspector of Weights and Measure.-, haa rereivod notice of transfer to Wellington, and will leavo Duriovvm to-morrow morning. Considerable anxiety is being felt as to the present whereabounts of Sir William Smith, of the linn o! Messrs Smith and Smith, Ltd., oil and color merchants, of Lower Cuba street (says Wednesday's Wellington 'Post'). Mr Smith, who has been iu ill health for some time past, left his home at Day's Bay at 11 o'clock on Saturday morning, and attended at his office, as usual. Nothing unusual in his manner was noticed. He left some friends on Saturday afternoon to catch the ferry boat for the bay. Since then nothing has been heard of him by his relatives. Professor Macmillan Brown left Christohurch last evening on a visit to several groups of islands in the Pacific. He will visit' Cook Islands first, and will conclude his trip at Maiden Island, where he will study megalithic structures erected by the aboriginal races. D. T. C. Harrison who recently resigned the position of hon. surgeon to the St. John Ambulance, Dunedin Nursing Division, was the recipient of a case of pipes, as a mark of appreciation from the members of that division.