PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1523, 20 August 1912, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor will preside nt tlio first annual meeting of tha Wellington Branch of the Overseas Club to be held in the Sydney Street Schoolroom on Monday oyenin? next. The Hon. W. i , . Masscy (Prime Minister), nnil the Hon. A. L. Herdman will bo amongst the speakers., Mr. Justice Chapman has cone- to Pn!merston North to pre.sidc nt the Supreme Court Bitting? in that (own. Mr.' J.j I-odas, Secretary for Labnttr, left for the south Inst evening. On Wednesday ho is to visit Timaru, accompanied bv the Commissioner of Crown Lands, of Christchurch, in order to inspect a number of proposed sites for workers' homes. Detective Hammond, of tho LnmWon Quay office, left for Auckland yesterday on transfer. Prior to his ik-parture, Chief-Detective TJroberg presented him with n we of I,oe«e pipes—n gift horn Ms friendb in the local police force.

Mr. A. A. Glendinning, of tangburn, loaves Wellington by K.M.S. Alhonic for London on September 19. At a meeting of tho Board of Management of the Wanj?anni Y.M.C.A. last night, Mr. Will Clark, present; secretary of the Perth Y.M.C.A., was appointed secretary on tho recommendation of Mr. Jameson, national secretary.—Press Association. Mr. A. Webster, who recently resigned tho position of town clerk to tho Petono lioroiigh Council, was presented last evening by members of the l'etono Commercial Chib with a silver tea and cofi'ce service. Mr. A. Coles nindo tho presentation. The- many friend"; of Mr. F. J. Ryder, Kakiriki Station, llawko's Day, will bo pleased to learn that he is now progressing favourably towards recovery from tho effects of tho Kcvcro operation he recently underwent. Ho is, however, still confined to his room, and will not be able to leave Olnki for his home for somo lime- yet.