PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14302, 23 February 1910, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

' Mil C. Day, ex-stipendiary magistrate, ! is staying at the, Central Hotel.

Bishop Neligan returned .from the . South by the Tarawa yesterday.

Air. Robert Fletcher has 'been elected chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board. '

Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Fisher, of London, are at present visiting Auckland, alter having toured southern New Zealand.

•Mr Neil Tonks. of the commercial staff of' the Evening Post, was presented on Saturday with a travelling trunk and a case of pi pes.* prior to leaving the sen-ice of the Post, to live in Auckland.

Mr K P. Watkis, who retired from the New 'Zealand Civil Service last year, has died in Sydney. Ho was agent for the Public Trustee at Nelson for several years, and was well; known and much respected there.

Mr V. A.' Bates, of the teaching staff of the Hawera District High School, has accepted the position of first assistant at the Feilding District High School. Mr. Bates will leave Hawera in about a month s time.

Mr. .John ,Townley was unanimously .re-elected chairman of the Gisborne Harbour Board yesterday (says a Press Association message). He has been a member of the Board since 1885, and chair- '■ man since ,1890..

The Times of i Malaya - records a presentation of ■an address and suit, case fit Ipoh, in the Malay Peninsula, to Mr. John 1. Philips, managing director of the Times of Mayala' Press, Limited, on the occasion of his departure for New Zealand. -~',' - ,'-.'

.Mr. Arthur Thode, who, after six years' service, is . severing his connection with Messrs.: Green and Colebrook, Limited, has

' been the recipient of a valuable presentation from the firm and employees. ' In view of . his approaching marriage, the gift took the form of a full range of household cutlery.

Mr. S. Bellamy, of Waitoa, . who has resigned from the directorate \of the Thames' Valley Co-operative Dairying Company, owing to his removal from the district, was entertained-on Monday at a farewell dinner by the directors of the company (wires/.our Paeroa correspondent). Mr. A.. C. Hubbard (chairman of directors). presided, and the health of the departing guest, was honoured with enthusiasm, after' a . number of laudatory speeches had been made. ~; ,

' At the residence Mr. and Mrs. F. :',■ Chambers, Kingsland, on Monday right, V a; very pleasant evening was spent by , the members of St. Peter's choir (Arch- , hill), when ; the Rev. R. Ferguson, en behalf of the choir, 'presented the choirmaster and organist, Mr. W. Shaw, with a beautiful. E.P. cruet. .Mrs.\. Shaw was also the/recipient of a beautiful jewel- .. case, given by Mrs/ Chambers (her • ■ daughter), the occasion being celebration of their silver wedding. During' the evening eulogistic speeches were made by , the Rev. R. Ferguson and Messrs. Ewen '■•: and Rowe as; to the good work done by ;'■•■-.. Mr. Shaw since he undertook the posi- '.;• tion of choirmaster and organist. ''.;.; ••'