Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18363, 22 April 1925, Page 8

Personal Items.

♦ Mr A. T. Donnelly and Mr A. C. Brassington left by last night's ferry steamer to attend a sitting of the Appeal Court in Wellington. Dr. T. F. Telford, Medical Offieer of Health, will leave to-day for Fairlio and Waimate. He will return to Christchurch' to-morrow. Captain H. Baigent, senior captain of the Eastbourne (Wellington) Ferry Service, has resigned, and will leaye by the Port Wellington on an extended trip to England. \ Mark. Nioholls, the All Black, is not settling in Masterton, after all, but is to remain in Wellington and phiy for Petone, his old club. He has accepted a position in the Public Service. Among recent arrivals' at Warner's Hotel are Messrs A. G. Cate and A. L. Eiehardson (Wellington), E. G) Cliffen (Timaru), and Captain' C. J. Kendall (Broekenhurst, Hants).

Sir John Luke, who was a member of - the New Zealand Parliamentary Party who visited South l Africa, retui ned from England by the Athenic, which reached Auckland yesterday.

At the annual meeting of the Y.M.C.A., held last night, a letter was read from Mr R. A. Kenner, general •secretary of the Association, dated March ' 3rd, Ontario, U.S.A., stating that lie would be in New Zealand at the end of May. '

Messrs L. C. Dean and J. C. Young (Palmerston North), G. Hart (Auckland), P. Evans and W. L. Podmore (Wellington), C. Holmwood (Brisbane), E. Nicol (Dunedin), and S. Brewis (Hamilton) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel.

It is understood that Mr J. it. Hamilton, who defeated Sir Joseph Ward for Aw&rua in 1919, will contest the seat again this year against Mr de la Perrelle, the sitting member. Mr Adam Hamilton, his brother, will in all likelihood endeavour to retrieve the defeat lie suffered from Mr J. C. Thomson for Wallace.

Messrs A. C. Hodson, A. Bardsley, A. E. Shaw, B, J. Gibbons, J. S. Brown, W. L. Sprockman and H. A. Bcauchamp (Wellington), B. Atkin, N. Heath (Auckland), D. H. Alexander (Sydney), Duncan Cameron (Oamaru), J. M. Allan (Boss), H. C. Else (Sheffield, England), W. Kain (Geraldine) and S. Anderson (Timaru) arc among the gucst3 at the United Service Hotel.

Dr. W. A. Chappie, formerly M.P. for Dumfries in the House of Commons, and for many years prominent in New Zealand politics, arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Maheno from Sydney. Dr. Chappie is paying a visit to New Zealand before returning to Australia to study two important questions—the working of the arbitration method of settling industrial disputes, and the system of preferential voting.

Mr T. D. Lenuie, of Invercargill, ha? joined the directorate of Messrs A. W. Buxton, Ltd., with the position of as" sistant manager. Mr Lennie is wellknown throughout the Dominion, as president of the New Zealand Nurserymen's Association. Before leaving Invercargill, Mr and Mrs Lennie were the recipients of presentations and farewell socials from several of the bodies the- were connected with, including the Invercargill Nurserymen's Council, the Invercargill Bowling Club, the Southend Croquet Club, the South School Committee. Knox Presbvterian Church, the Huia Social Club, and the Tapanui Horticultural Society. Mr Lennie was for 14 years on the Invercargill Borough Council, with two vears as deputyMayor.

At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Builders' Association last nighty it was announced that Mr W. H. Winsor had been anpointed fulltime organising secretarv of the Association. Mr Winsor has given up his contracting business in the city in order to take up the appointment. The annual report, referring to the appointment, stated that this was perhaps the greatest forward movement m the history of the Association. In Mr Winsor the Association had a gentleman with a wide experience in all building trade matters, and on public bodies. His tact and ability made him most suitable for the position. They took the occasion of recording their appreciation of Mr Winder's sacrifice in doing what he had done for the benefit of the Association.