PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 462, 22 March 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

i All tho members of tho Executive- will 1 be in town to-day, with tho exception of i tho Hon. A. T. Ngata, who is in the Gis- > bomo district. 1 Tho Hon. A. W. Hogg returns to-day from a week-end visit to Masterlon. Dr M'GTII reached Wellington from Lyttclton by the Maori on Sunday morning. The Hon. G. Fowlds, the Hon. Dr. Findlay, and the Hon. T. Mackenzio returned yesterday from tho South. Mr. Gould, headmaster of tho Pongaroa School, will succeed Mr. Blake as assistant at the To Aro School. His Excellency tho Governor is expected ' to go To Napier by the mail train to-day, and to leavo immediately afterwards in tho Government steamer Tutanekai on a visit to various parts of tho East Coast. i The nianv Wellington friends of Mr." Chas. Martcr, sub-editor of tho Sydney "Daily l Telegraph," and formerly a Wellington 1 journalist, will rogrot to learn of the death ■ of his wifo, which is recorded by a Tress ■ Association cablegram received early this morning. Mr. George Fenwick, editor of tho ■ "Otago Daily Times," who will leave Duni cdin on Tuesday next for tho Old World to ■ attend tho Imperial Press Conference, was ■ farowelled on Saturday by the Otago • Master Printers' Association in tho Com- ■ mercial Travellers' Club, Duncdin. ' About twenty residents of Waimato as--1 semblcd last Wednesday afternoon to bid 1 farewell to Mr. J. Fleming, teller of tho 1 Bank of New Zealand, who has been trans--1 ferred to Wellington. Mr. Fleming was presented with a gold chain and pendant, and several complimentary Speeches wero mado. Mr. C. W. Hursthouse, Chief Engineer of Roads, who will rotiro at the end of the present month, is to be entertained by tho staff of tho office with which ho has been identified for so many years, and is to ho presented with a tangible proof of tho esteem in which he is held by his departmental associates. At a well represented meeting of the Jewish community, held on Saturday morning, Mr. J. Mandel, president, being in the chair, the Rev. H. Van Stavercn was unanimously re-appointed minister for a further term of seven years, after 32 years' service. Reference was made by Messrs. Mandel, F. Cohen, D. J. and P. J. Nathan, P. Levi, Judah Myers, A. Beaver, and others, to the valuable services rendered by the Rev. Mr. Van Staveren to the community, and to tho high esteem in which ho is'held by tho congregation. Mr. R. C. Drummond, headmaster of tho Clarevillo School, near Carterton, has been appointed to the charge of the now school at Lansdowno, Masterton. Mr. Drummond commenced his professional -career as a pupil teacher at Mount Cook Boys' School, under Mr. C. A. Hardy, 8.A., and was afterwards a junior assistant master at the same school. Later, he was appointed to the charge of tho To Horo School, then to Parkvale, and theneo to his present position at Clarevillo. Mr. Drummond has long been recognised as ono of the most successful teachers in the beard's son-ice, and is very popular in the Wairarapa district.