Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17125, 21 April 1921, Page 7

Personal Items.

Mr E. J. Watt, of Australia, and for-] merly of Hawke's Bay, arrived from Sydney by the Niagara on Friday. The Hon. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, M.L.C., will leave for England on Sat-1 urday next. Mr H. Gerard, recently secretary to tho Sampan Administrator, has been appointed secretary to the Public Ser-, vice Stores Tenders Control Board.

Mr E. A. Holmes, formerly resident inspector in New Zealand of the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., has been appointed a New Zealand director of tho Australian Mutual Provident Society. The Hon. D. T. Fleming was again nominated by the Otago Education Board to represent Otago on the Council of Education, says a Press Association telegram from Dunedin.

Mr H. B. Pattrick, a member of the firm of Hamilton and Davidson, sharebrokers, has been appointed secretary to the Dunedin Stock Exchange, in suocession to Mr Hugh Mitchell, who has resigned tho position. Mr A. G. Davidson, manufacturers' agent of this city, left by the Athenio or. a visit to Great Britain and the Continent of Europe. He expects to be away from the Dominion for six or seven months.

The Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) expects to reach Dunedin or. May 2ud. He win attend a ceremony in connexion with the laying of the foundation stone of the new physics building at Otago. University. . Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that Sir John Roberts, C.M.G. (Vice-Chancellor of the University Council) has resigned after twenty years' service., Last year—the Jubilee year—he presented £IOOO to the University for the founding of a fupd for research in medicine. He first joined the Council in 1886.. i An Auckland Press Association telegram states that a public reception at the Citv Council Chamber was given to Dr. T. ;W. Leys, in recognition of his services? to the city in connexion with the university, art gallery, Leys Institute. Public Library, and other civic : institutions. The Mayor, who presided, tbngratulated Dr.\ Leys on having the honorary degree of; Doctor of Laws conferred on him by the McGill University, the great Canadian institution, 'and conveyed an expression of the citizens' appreciation of the signal servicq ho had rendered the city. After speeches by representatives of the various institutions; Dr. Leys replied, making special reference to. the great benefit which Auckland derived from the patriotism and the magnificent bequests of present arid former citizens. Mr Arthur T. Dohnelly has been appointed Crown Prosecutor for the Canterbury district, in succession to Mr S.-.tt--! Raymond, who has resigned the. position and. ha 3 left New Zealand on ah- extended visit to. England. Mr Donnelly, whois a young Christchurch man, artwi a» frown during 'Mr Raymond's recent absence in England. Ho is the eldest son of the late Air M. Donnelly, who was a well-known Christchurch solicitor. Mr Arthur Donnelly was educated at the Christchurch Boys' High School, and he graduated at Can teiDiiry College and was admitted to the Bar by Mr Justice Denniston in 1911. He served in France with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and took part in the memorable operations at Passchendaele, returning invalided in 1919. On resuming practice he joined the firm of Messrs Raymond and Stringer, and has been prominently before the piiblic in connexion with important criminal "cases, notably the Timaru murder trial, in which he secured the'conviction of Reginald Matthew*.