PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 923, 16 September 1910, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. G.' Fowlds, Minister for Education, wlio-is going to South Africa to represent New Zealand at the opening or the Union Parliament, will leave Wellington to-morrow (Saturday) morning for Auckland, where he will spend the weekend. He will sail for Sydney by Monday's steamer, en route to boutn Atrica. Mr.; Fowlds will be accompanied by Miss Fowlds and Miss May Fowlds, and hio private secretary (Mr.-W. Crow).

Messrs. Richard Finch, Edmund Carlisle Howard, and Win. 'Watkm Herbert Edwards, members of the Royal College of Yetorinary Surgeons, recently engaged in England by the Department of Agriculture, have been gazetted as Government Veterinarians.

Surgeon-Major J. B. Purdy, of the New Zealand Medical Corps, has been gazetted Principal Medical _ Officer of the Wellington Military District, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

Mr. A. S. Adams, of Dunedin, who has been attending meetings'connected with the N6w Zealand-Alliance, leaves for the south to-night. V

Mr. Wesley Spragg, president of • the New Zealand Alliance, returns to Auckland by the Main Trunk express to-day.

Mr. Justice Edwards returned to Wellington last evening.

Sergeant Greenish, of the Wellington .City Rifles, has been appointed actingcaptain of the Boys' Institute Cadets.

, Lieutenant J. G. Roaclie, senior subaltern of the Wellington Guards, will shortly be appointed to the command of the corps.

The staff of the . Napier branch of Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., ' met in the manager's room to bid farewell to Mr; L. M. Espagne, who has Been transferred to the Christchurch branch of the firm. Advantage was taken of the occasion- to. present ; Mr. Espagne with a. handsome suit. case, suitably engraved, as a mark of the esteem in which he is held. Mr. Herdman, the manager, in making the presentation, referred to the. good, work done by Mr. Espagne. while connected with the Napier branch, and he would prove himself an even better officer in his new . sphere. Mr. Perkins also, spoke .in Mr. Espagne's "favour, and endorsed the .remarks-made by Mr. Herdman. Mr. Mawson,. on behalf of the Port Ahuriri office, unshed Mt. Espagne every success, and expressed regret at his leaving. . The recipient responded, and thanked all for the present and for the kindness shown him whilst at Napier. '

Mr. J. Morris, well ! known ; in . New Zealand as secretary of the -/Australian Waterside Workers' Federation, has been elected Mayor of Port Melbourne by the unanimous vote of the council.

Mr. A. J. Gcar.v, formerly of., the City Counoil staff, and now 'town, clerk,, at. Feildins, : has been' appointed secretary of the Feilding Fire Board, out of eight applicants, in succession to Mr. J.' B. Pickering. ' : ■