PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 556, 10 July 1909, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Of the Minister of the Crown, the Hon, G. Fowlds is_ at Hamilton/the Hon; D. - Buddo at Rangiora; and the Hon. R. M'Kenzio at Collingwood. The other members of tho Government are at present in Wellington.'. Mr. M. J. Rcardon, secretary of; the General Labourers' Union, who is visiting Napiar on business connected with the union, will return to town to-night. Tho Hon. D. Buddo, Minister for Internal Affairs, left for Rangiora 'last night. Ho' aspects to return .to Wellington on Tuesday ' moniina. • Mr. R, B. T. Miller, for some years managor for. tho Bank of Now Zealand, at llotorua, and lately relieving at Ractihi, has been ■ transferred to Riverton. - '-, ' '. Mr. if. G. Ballard, Inspector of Telegraph , Offioos, who is on three months' leave of i absence, owing, to bad :health, left on a trip ' to Sydneyby tho >Moana' yesterday, 1 .The Secretary of tho/l'ost and Telegraph Department '(Mr. Donald Robertson) tid Mrs. Robertson left San Francisco for Wol-' lington, via Tahiti and Rarotonga, on July 1. They aro duo in Wellington on July 28. Mr. J, K. Logan,. Superintendent of Elcotrio" Lines, is to be entertaiiiod ; by ■ tbo offioora of the Post and Telegraph Dopart-., ment, by way of recognising iheboDour that .has been done him in ,gaining tho Imperial Servico Order., .. V'Mr.: W. C.: Dfako, who has held the pod- : tion of - postmaster at. Waiuiato- for. about fifteen months, has received notice of promotion to Petono,. says j.the. ." Advertiser;" Howill leovo for his now sphere of' duty next week.-:.' ■ . '.M r .i .. Mr,' F., Rasey, ; lato West Coast traveller for Sargood, Sim, and Ewon, left by the M'oana, yesterday, for Sydney, en route ta. Melbourne, \vhere ho is to take charge;of tho International Correspondence .Schools. 80-' fore leaving ho received a presentation from ! his fellow-jworkersTin...Sargood'e, v \ Tho'now GovornhilntiTourist Burcan U now located in! the Civil Sorvice Club build-ing-an'-'Stout' Street. The following were recent visitors: Messrs.'J. Wilson, MelbCiirflo; It. E. Bohmanh, TasmaniaF. Marks, Sy& ( ney; E./A. Lindsay, Sydney ; H., Lookc, Mel- J bournoj A. G. Melbourne; ;V. R. Mackay, • Melbourne; W. • Soutball, Mob .: bournb; W. Bennett, Melbourne; T.r Bullen, Melbourne^P.,M'Rao, Melbourne; and Mr. and 1 Mrs. R. Michael, .Melbourne,, The funeral of Mr. Russell Hallcyj wbo for : some, years has been in the, employ of Bing, Harris,"and Co.,' and prior to that in Sargood, Soil, and-Ewen's, 1 .took : placo yesterday afternoon:.. The deceased was well-known iu> musical circles,'' and. o.f: tha Wellington ..'Liedertafel . were among those ,who.f6llowed 'the ramaihs 'to the gravi. Ro> - presentatives of the 'Phoenix i Cricket ■ Clubf. Commorcial Travelers' Club," Bing,"Harris, and. Co., and other> softgoods housos wera also present. . -. ■ v •• ~ !.-■