Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17419, 1 April 1922, Page 10

Personal Items.

Mr R. H. Skipwith was a passenger a from tho north by yesterday's ferry | steamer. | Mr J. Hunter, who has held the posi- i| tion of manager of the Dunedin and | Kaikorai Tram Company for twenty- I one years, is retiring. | Among tho passengers who left Wei- 1 iington for Sydney by the TJlimaroa ; yesterday was "Dick" Arnst, the • ex- ! champion sculler. Mr E. C. Esse, manager of the Inglewood branch of the Bank of New South Wales for several years, is retiring on superannuation. Mr Joseph Norrie, of Auckland, has I been appointed librarian of the New I Plymouth Library and curator of tu» I Museum. Mr Norrie, has held several 1 important appointments in large librae | rios at Home. | Mr R. D. Rodgers, who will take up his duties as organist at Trinity Congregational Church to-morrow, is a pupils of \fr Rodget Gale, of .Knox Church, Dunedin. and Dr. Bradshaw, of this city. He was recently organic at the Woolston Anglican Church. Mr Massey and the Hon. D, H. Guthrie were entertained at dinner by local bodies at Whangarei last night. The I Prime Minister subsequently addressed 9 a public meeting of about a thousand 9 porsons, receiving an excellent hearing. I The speecli followed the lines of his 9 recent utterances. | Mr H. Norman Liardet, tho New | Zealand manager of tho Ocean Acci- | dent and Guarantee Corporation, Ltd., i left by the Atlienic this week on a visit 1 to Great Britain, and expects to be | absent from tho Dominion for six I months. i Mr H. H. Shaw, who has been ap- i pointed manager of W. B. Cooke and B Son Ltd., wi'l arrive from Auckland g this morning. Prior to accepting the I position of manager of the Auckland 9 United Friendly (Societies' Dispensaiy 9 over two years ago, Mr Shaw was in the JB employ of Cooke and £on, Ltd. Mr William Martin ("Plugger Bill"), I at one time the world's champion long* B distance track-racing cyclist, and win- 3 ner of the famous Melbourne Austral 1 Wheel Race, has just purchased a large g dairy farm about two miles from Otaki. & I'or 6ome years past Mr Martin ha» 8 been established in a business with his I headquarters at Palmerston North. | Mr H. M. Gore, of the "Hansard" | staff, has notified the Government o» i iiis intention to retire on superannua- I tion as from the end of June next. Mr I Uoie entered the Public Service as _ a a cadet in the Lands Department in 187 a. ;J Subsequently he was tor six years pn- | vate secretary to the Minister of if under different administrations. H® | hai completed 421 years service. J Dr. 'l'ruby King, Director of tho De- X partment oi Chiia Welfare, is at P^ e ®" jS ent engaged on a health cainpaig | MirougJiout New Zealand. lhe Hon. | C. J l'arr, Minister of Education, V | ■very interested in the work, and wisney g l>r.* King to give short addresses, o | about twenty minutes' duration, m ® i many schools as possible. 'lhe ex ® 1 dates of his visit to Canterbury are n | yet definitely fixed, but Dr. I probably begin on or about April lav • | As soon as the Board is more deiitn J | notified as to the dates of Dr. fun? 1 lectures, the schools to be visited will I informed. §