PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17145, 26 April 1919, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

<■ " »p — r' i Mr. B. B. Ferguson, of Cambridge, id at tho Grand Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Rowland, of Rotorua, are at the Grand Hotel. Mr. John Maseey was yesterday elected president of the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Mr. Bruce Muir, of Gisborne, Mr. J. Williams, of Tokomaru Bay, and Mr. James Scannel, of Hastings, are at tho Grand Hotel. Captain Colin Gi'ray. Imperial Forces, who was the Rhodes scholar of 1910, returned from the front by the Bhamo yesterday, He is accompanied by his wife and child. Major R. Logan, N.Z.S.C, who has been on active service, returned from the front on the transport Bhama. He is a son of Colonel R. Logan, Administrator of Samoa. Mr. H. M. Skeot and Mr. R. P. Orevilla commissioners of Crown lands lor Auckland and the North Auckland dis I tricts respectively, left by /'* Wellington ; express last evening to attt„a a conferonce of commissioners regarding the adI ministration of the land laws. ' Dr. A. S. Herbert who has resigned hbi position of Government balneologist at Rotorua, intends to (cave in about .1 week to take passage to England by the lonic. He is at present engaged in Tor mulnting plans for several innovations ir the establishments at Rotorua, to be sulmitted to the Government beforo his departure. ~ THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL «*» ■ Their Excellencies the Governor-General, the Earl of Liverpool, and the Counter of Liverpool, attended the united Anzac Day memorial service at St. Matthew's Church at mid-day yesterday and also tho citizen's commemoration servic* in the Domain in the afternoon. Subsequently His Excellency inspected a parade of boy scouts, who had attended a memorial service at the Church of the Holy. Sepulchre Rhyber Pass, Their Excellencies have no public engagements to-day. EDITORSHIP OF THE TIMES. .—... i » ■- It was announced by cable recently that Mr. Geoffrey Dawson had resigned tao editorship- of the Times, in which position he succeeded Mr. G. E. Buckle in August, 11912. In fc letter to Mr. John Walter, Mr. Dawson wrote:—" I need not troublo you with detailfi Of the correspondence leading finally to my decision. It is a step to which I had in any case been making up my mind for some weeks past— : ever since it became clear that Lord North - oliffe was constantly dissatisfied with the policy of the Times on the ground that it 1 differed from bis own expressions of opinion in other newspapers. Nothing is 'worse for a newspaper than any sort of internal friction, and therefore I wish to • relinquish my position at the earliest date convenient to eveiyone concerned." Mr. Henry Wickham Steed has been appointed ,to succeed Mr. Dawson. ' .