PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15249, 12 March 1913, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

M*. J. B. Olasxbos, of Wellington i» . on * short visit to • Auckland. Mr. L. S. Maxwell, of Northoote, loft by the steamer Mahetto, oil Monday, en | route to England. Amongst the Auckland-bound passengers by the Makura, which arrived early this morning, were Messrs. Z. G. Dunn and A. L Rattray. Mr. Boyd Bennie, Government Inspector of Mines, is at present in Huntly, puking one of his periodical examination® of the Taupiri mines. Mr. Leo. Myers has been appointed to the London directorate of the Auckland Tramways Company, in place of Mr. S. E. Garcke, who has resigned. Mr. S. Inder, who has been postmaster 1 at Masterton for some years, and was pre- ; vioosly postmaster at Coromandel, is to be , transferred to Christchurch as assistant- , postmaster. , Sergeant Rowell, of the water _ police, < -who has been transferred to Te Kuiti, was . ■yesterday presented by some of bis ] friends in the local force, with a case of 4 tHpea- Sergeant Rowell leaves this morn- . tog tor hi* new post. He will be suereeded on" the waterfront by Sergeant Cowan, _o I Norton. :<■ At the meeting of ths Aocftnatifiation : , Society last evening, the president (Mr. / W. H. Hazard) nude reference to the death of a popular and enthusiastic xnemfcer of the society in the peraon. of Mr. tj J. Parry. On the motion of Mr. Hacard, * vote of sympathy' was passed •with the widow of Mr. Pmy. ,■ It was . farther resolved to place on record the Bocb&f* appreciation of the work don® by , tEb deceased in connection with acclimatisation matter* in the district. • The Rev. A- Don, who has worked for many years as misskmary v among We ] Chinese of Otago and Southland, is, , in , acoardaoo* with the decision »of the Beenonsible Committee of the Preubytenan Church,- to be transferred to Auckland, : where the -Chinese) population m greater than in the South '(says a Prees Aseooation telegram, from Dnnedin). Mr. Wo hat been a resident in the South for 31 ywL'far 24 of which his home has been (a Dunodin. Mr. Don has earned the Itixh respect of the community, and his departure will be felt with genuine regret by those among whom he has laboured. ; - • • The Hon. G. E. Foster, Minister for Trade and , Commerce. in • the Canadian Goyeennant,. arrived at Auckland by the • Maknra-eariy this . morning. . Mr. Foster join* the Empire Trade Commission at. Auckland,*; and then goes to Australia on March* 24, "to confer with Mr... Andrew Fisher, Prime J4ini«ter of the , Commonwealth,; on. ; the - question •- of reciprocal trade : between. Canada and- Australia. '& In Melbourne Mr. Foster will also meet the -Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, New >/■ Zealand ' Minister for Customs, together with Mr.Fisher, and confer with them regarding tariff ed trade matters generally. Mr. . f Foster i will ; be at the Grand Hotel. during hie stay in Auckland-/. ' - ■ ■ -w-., - ;• '• V' * ' ;i