PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 843, 15 June 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. Justice Sim, President of the Arbitration Court, and Mr. J. A. M'Cullough, workers' representative on the Court, will leave for Lyttelton to-night, aud Mr. W. Scott, employers' representative, will follow them to-morrow night. They will all proceed to Greymouth on Saturday. - Mr. G. Witty, M.P. for Eiccarton, is at present in Wellington. Mr. Murdoch M'Lean, of Wellington, is about to leave for the north on a holiday. Mr. J. E. Hutton, Chief Postmaster in Wellington, whose retirement from the service his been announced, is to receive' a handsome presentation from the letter-carriers of the city. It consists of a ram's head, with a pair 'of magni' Micent, horns, converted into an inkstand. The horns are beautifully polished, and arc tipped with silver, and the two inkwells, that are sunk in the top of the head, are also of silver. Mr. Huttbn's successor has not yet been appointed. The Rev. Dr. Gibb will leave, to-morrow for Dunedin, where he will preach on two successive Sundays at First Church, of which he was tho minister before coming to Wellington. Dr. Nesbit, pastor of First Church, is still in very bad health. Engineer-Lieutenant Sydenham was a passenger for Westport by the Mapourika yesterday evening. Mr. F. N. Beasley, of Mason, Struthers, Ltd., Christckurch, has been, appointed manager of tho firm's new branch at Palmerston North. Mr. Hugh Hutchison, of the engineering firm of Hutchison and Campbell, Ltd., of Victoria Street, has been advised that his brother, Mr. J. B. Hutchison, has been appointed managing director of the Scott Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, on the Clyde. This is the company which has recently completed the . building of the first super-Dreadnought Colossus (in which 18,000 tons of steel plates were used), a record work which only occupied nine months. Mr. Hutchison, of Wellington, recently supervised the repairing of the Kaipara at Auckland, a work for which the young firm (of which he is the senior partner) received much credit. Sergt.-Bugler, J. Morgan and Scrgt. J. Clarkson, of Onehunga School Cadets, who will represent New Zealand at the Empire Cadet rifle competitions in England, left Auckland yesterday evening for Wellington, where they will join the Corinthic. Sergt.-Bugler Morgan is the holder of the cadet rifle championship of the Dominion.—Press Association. The death was announced at Sydney yesterday of Mr. Percy Wakelin, second son of the late B. A. Wakelin, builder and contractor, of this oity. Deceased, who married the second daughter of the late John Bagge, postmaster of Masterton, had been ailing some three' months. Mr. Wakelin served his apprenticeship at Cable's foundry, and completed his studies in England, being senior second engineer of the s.s. Minnehaha (which recently grounded on the Scilly Islands, off the coast of Cornwall, but was refloated), and chief engineer of the Kent, trading between London, South Africa, and Australasian ports. Deceased, who was 39 years of ago, leaves a widow and one child.