PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 801, 26 April 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) has arrangod to leave for the south at the end Of the week. He will.deliver a policy Spedohat Winton early next week: The Hon. ft. MTCenzie. (Minister . for Public Works) is expected to return from Napier this ovening.' ' "The Hon. D. Buddo. for internal Affairs) will return to Wellingtbn 'from the South to-day.. . v Sir James Mills, nianaging director of the Union Company, who left .Dunedin yesterday morning' to join tho Melbourne steamer at Bluff,-is on a business trip to England, and will be absent till the end of the year, states a Press Association telegram. . '~..; . , Mr. D. M'Laren, M.P., will return from the south to-day. ',-•■■■ Mr. A. 'J, Geary, of the.. Wellington tramway head-office's olerical staff, had an interview yesterday afternoon with the Feilding Borough Council,'at the latter's request." As a result of the interview, Mr.' Geary was offered, and accepted, the town .clerkship'of Fcilding, rendered vacant by tho resignation of Mr. Rankin. Mr. Geary returned to Wellington yesterday afternoon. He was chosen out of'3B applicants, from Feilding down to Dunedin'. Mr. W. T. Wood, ex-M.P. for Palmerston North, is in Auckland. He has been seriously ill, and will proceed to Eotorua ,to recruit his health. Mr. William Allan has been nominated as a member of Victoria College Council, in place of the Hon. Dr. Findlay (resigned). .'..'■; ■.. ■' , Mr. James E. Baker, second son of the late Mr. Elieneaer Baker, formerly sheriff, of Wellington, died at Hanmer yesterday morning in his fifty-first year. . The de-. ceased; who was bom'in.'Wellington,-Was' for many years a member of the' firm of Baker Bros., house and land agents. -He established a branch of. the business in Auckland some years ago, and morfii recently engaged in business in Christchurch as a house and land afeent. Suffering from nervous prostration he.was' ( ordered ,to Hanmer by his medical advise.r. The late Mr. Baker married adaughter of Mr. Henton, general manager of 1 - the New Zealand Drug ' Company. There is a family of three sons and two daughters. ,-..'..' News has been received by cable that Mr. -William Alexander Dunn, of Otaki (and Otago University), who left the Dominion,some two.and a half years ago to complete his medical studies at St. Thomas's Hospital, Loudon, has been successful in passing' the final examination of tho Eoyal College of Surgeons and the Eoyal College of Physicians. He purposes leaving London at the end of Stay for New Zealand. Mr. Wm. Burrell has been returned fpr= the vacancy ,on : the Upper Hutt Town Board, caused by the retirement of Mr. Alexander Martin.