PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 95, Issue 14944, 15 May 1922, Page 5

PERSONAL

Mr H. E. Pacey, managing director of the Glaxo Manufacturing Co., Ltd., is at Te Arolia.

Mr R. W. McVilJy, General Manager of Railways, is making an extended tour of the Southern railways.

Mr \V. Fraser ,of Hamilton, will leave for Wellington to-night'to attend the annual meeting of the Secondary Schools’ Association.

The Hon. Sir W. H. Hemes, M.P., was .at T e Arolia on Friday, and attended the Trotting Club’s fixture on Saturday. Advice has been received from Dunedin to the effect that there is no improvement in the condition of Mr E.Kellett, M.P., for Dunedin North, who has been seriously ill for some time. The death is announced from Sydney of Dr. McLean, who was surgeon in charge of the Mawson Antarctic expedition.

Sir Ernest Rutherford has been chosen president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the. meeting of which will take place at Liverpool in 1923. Mr P. A. G. Skinner has been appointed Government Printer 'in succession to Mr Marcus Marks, who retires from the service at the end of the month. \

Dr A. D. S. Whyte, medical officer of health for Dunedin, has resigned. He entered the service of the Health Department upon the termination of his war duties.

The Premier of Western Australia, Sir James Mitchell, who is suffering from throat trouble, is progressing satisfactorily. He has abandoned his Canadian and American trip, and Will join the Morea at Marseilles on June 16.

A valedictory smoke concert and presentation to Mr J. 11. McFeeters, manager of the New Zealand Farmers’ Fertiliser Company’s works at Te Papapk, took place at Onehunga last week, on the occasion of his leaving the district, his contract with that company having expired. The presentation of a silver tray, suitably inscribed, from the works, together with a case of pipes and a tobacco pouch from the office, was made by the chairman, Mr Houlton. Mr McFeeters, in his reply, expressed the great pleasure he felt at the many expressions of goodwill which had prompted the function. The case of Mr T). 0. Williams, who has completed the BA. degree and been aw r arded a senior university scholarship in economics, is a striking illustration of the good work done by some of our returned soldiers under the education concessions granted by the University (says the Wellington Post.) After so.no years at the front, Mr Williams returned to New Zealand badly gassed, and immediately took up his studies at Victoria College. While successful in all departments, he was particularly distinguished in economics, in which branch he has this year taken the highest. place for New Zealand at the advanced • stage. Professor Murphy is very much impressed with Hie quality of Mr Williams’ work, and regards him as one of the most promising of our younger economic students. *