PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18168, 14 August 1922, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Flint, of Svdaev sro at the Grand Hotel. y J| Mr. and Mrs. P. T. W. Black, of Svd. ney, are at the Grand Hotel. ' f® The commissioner of police, Mr. A H Wright, ia at present in Christchurch. * Mr. F. M. Winstone was a pajsenger by the express for Wellington last evening. ■ . Mr - J - p : Ijomax, of Frankton, is leav. ing to reside at Tauranga, where he ia entering into business. "^ age > S \ M- ' ' nas returned to Wellington from a health trip, on which ' he had been absent for some time. Mr Justice Chapman lea-res WelGhe- ■■ ' ton to-day for New Plymouth, where he will preside over the Supreme Court sit ting 3. .Mr. E. T. Doddrell, of Gisborne arrived by the Arahura, and is the «mest of the Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Stewart of Devonport. ' - Mr W. B. McEwan, public librarian at i-unedin, who has been suffering from > ■ pleurisy, is reported to be progressing fcowara convalescence. / Mr. Lionel E. Skipworth, of Auckland Who has been studying architecture in London and - America, has passed the A.Jtc.i.B. A. examination. Mr. W. R. Gahagan has been re-elected ' ' • unopposed as the representative of local bodies on the Christchurch Technical Col. lege Board of Governors. Mr. Hugh Munro, a member of the Kotonia-Taupo railway commission, left for Wellington last evening to attend the iinal sitting of the coairoisdion. P,\ Buchanan, lately of the Christ 3 College (Christchurch) teaching * staff, was a passenger to England bv tSie Arawa. He will begin his studies at Cambridge in October. v T president of the ?! New Zealand Institute of Surveyors rnturnea to Auckland yesterday morning from the annual conference of the insti- ' tute in Christchurch. Mr L. H. Garland, Mr. G. I. SmMh and Mr. C. S. Booth, «of Christchurch! Mr. J. A. Fothergill, of Dunedin, and Mr. A. H. E. Russell, of ""ellington, are*"* at the Grand Hotel. Mr. James Ames, Wellington Citv valuer, who has been laid aside for some weeks with an attack of pleurisv, has now recovered, and it is likely that he will resume his duties in the course of a few days.

The Ilev. Hoani Parata, vicar of thi parochial district of Riverton, has been appointed to the cure of the parish of Gore, in succession to the Rev. W. A. ' Hamblett, who takes charge of' St Matthew's, Dunedin. Mr. W. S. Bedingfield, who hag resigned his position as a member of the * Petone Technical School Board of Man- '' agers, has been unanimously chosen out ? of six applicants for the office of teacherdirector of the school. Mr. Cecil Malthus, holder of the travelling scholarship in French,. returned to Wellington by the Athenic after nearly ' two years spent in France. He is accompanied by his wife and two children. Mr. Malthus is proceeding South, where be will join the staff of the Timaru High School Mr. T. A. Turnbull, who was well tv known in mining circles in Auckland in tiie " nineties/' is, with Mirs. TurnbuE, staying at Helensville. Mr. Turnbull haj been better known of late years connection with the Onakakii iron'ore ~. field in the Nelson Province. Mr. A. Gavey, electrical engineer, Pub- / lie Works Department, who for the pa*';- ' 18 months his been in charge of the Laks > Coleridge hvdro-electricity installation, has arrived in Wellington from Christchurnh to take up a position in connection with S the hydro-electricity installation under construction at Mangahao. Mr, R. G, Mac Gibbon, who has been in chiuge undes > Mr. Gavey. will take over the duties at , Lake Coleridge. ..... . ' Father O'Reilly, who wag recently appointed to the position of Provincial of - the Marist Fathers in New Zealand, is at present in Wellington, although he has not yet taken up his residence there. Father O'Reilly was born at Hokitika, and ■ after a preliminary education there he proceeded to St. Mary's College, Dundalk, Ireland, for the purpose of pursuing his studies 'For the priesthood. From St. Mary's ha went to the Montbell Philosophical College in France and later joined 1 the Marist novitiate at Torquay. Returning to New Zealand, he completed his studies at the Meanee Seminary in .vf Hawke's Bav. and was_ ordained in Wellington in 1893. Appointed to the teaching staff of St. Patrick's College, he remained at that institution for 19 years, > when he was appointed administrator, a ■post he for six years. For the past five years Father O'Rei'ly has been parish priest at Blenheim. Dean Holly, Father O'ißeillv's predecessor, is recovering from 8. severe illness, and is at present in Wei- A lington. _______