PERSONAL ITEMS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2491, 7 January 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The lW v - and Mrs ' Wingfield of. Auckland, are at the National Hotel.

Mr H. I. Blow, headmaster of the/ Leamington school, will remain ir* Auckland until the end of January.. .-J

Mr Leslie J. Thompson, Town 'dlerk of Hunterville,. spent several days in Cambridge during the week. ;

A cablegram received this morning announces -the death of :Ex-PrJ2ibier Okuma, of Japan. &. ■

An official welcome is to be extended by Auckland to Miss Ayinetto Elellerman on Monday.

Dr and Mrs H. Dean Bamford jtind family, llate of' Auckland, are staging at, the National Hotel prior to taking up their residence in Queen -Street.

Mr Pi J. Nolan, a New Zealand and Australian journalist, who left -for America a few months ago, is now on the staff of : the Musical World, New York.

Dr and Mrs MacFarlane returned to New Zealand by the E-uahine ' last week. \ The doctor has resumed the practice of his profession in Te Puke.

Mr F. B. Mason, ef the chemistry department of the Auckland Technical College, has been appointed scieriq/e master [at Hamilton High School.

• Mr P. C. Freeth, late managing editor of< the Manawatu Daily Times leaves, at the end of the month for Sydney, where he intends to permanently ■ Reside.

SirEobert Stout arrived in Wellington yesterday greatly improved r*in health, but still,suffering from an injury to the knee) received during his travels abroad. ;He was accompanied by Lady Stout. I ■ f .

Ecv. Brother Calixtus, who for some time Ihas been director of, the Marist Brothers' primary school at'-•■•. Vermont Street,. been • appointed to take charge of the new (school to' be opened in : Hamilton at an'early date;' "• -+~-

At the quarterly meeting of the Cain* bridge Methodist.. circuit,., held ira Thupday night,] Mr Frank Penn was elected to represent the circuit at the Centenary Conference,, to be held , atAuckland, - commencing : off' Feb. 22nd. Mr M. Butler was elected substitute representative. '". , >

The retirement of Mr W. Gee from the'position of [chief postmaster ait Auckland was marked on Thursday'by' a presentation frjom the staff to Mr arid , Mrs Gee. was a gathering ,of =, ovorlOO members of the staff and ex-fly officers of the department in the-ynai™ rooiri. J'^«B Mr George Drinkwater, a lc£lat<9 pi the Isle of Man, arrived in td-i on Monday. Mr Drinkwater, who i*. touring the Dominion, came out to - ||qw Zealand by way of Cape Colony,- ,' afcl Australia. He has visited the,; ther% mal regions* in *itfe north, ' and >,came ~>< down the He ticularly interested in and made ,a close inspection of the work that has been accomplished at Eotoxua.

The Young New Zealand artist, Mr Cecil Jameson, who went to .England from Wellington some 15 years ago, Continues to add to* his successes. A Recent issue of- the Westminster 1 Gazette, in reviewing the latest exhibition Of' the National Portrait Society** in London, singles out Jameson's 'f sensitive and .personal Portrait Di'awing" for special ..mention. Msny artists were aiaong the'' exhibitors. . ■ -

',iSie deaths have occurred of Mr Per- - dihnnd Kunst, an old colonial born in Aucfeand in 184 J; Mrs Sayah Ann Grut Of Epsom, Auckland, aged-;6s; ; the Hon. W. \f. MeCardle, an ex-niembcr of the ' LegrWativo Council and a resident .of/*" 1 WaltW, aged 78 years; Mrs Elizabeth > Bakef[,\ of Mount Eden, in her 94th year; I the, Bev. Worsley Thomson, of «, aged 55; and Mr Williams, one, of Canterbury's pio W acttlersl. 'rTi