PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1573, 17 October 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Major-6encra\ A, J. Godley, accompanied by Captain D. C, Silencer Smith, will leave for Sydney by.the itlnitnganui to-morrow, in order to pay n visit of inspeclioii to the Hoyal Australian Military College at Dnntroon, with the purpose of ascertaining what progress is being made by the New Zealand Cadets under instruction there. He will also visit the Australian School of Musketry at Sydney, Small Arms Factory in the Blue Mountains, the Clothing Factory, the C'orilite Factory, and the Eemount Depot atllelbourne, and will confer with the Australian military authorities as regards reciprocity with the Commonwealth in the matler of military defence, lie hopes also to see something of tho training of the Commonwealth Citizen Army and Senior Cadets. General Gcdley will return via Tasmania, arriving at the Bluff on November 25. Mr. and Mrs. Goring Johnston, who have been spending the winter months in Sydney, arrived hack by the Mceraki yesterday. Mr. Johnston has been interested in the Sydney racing. Ho brought back with him the "Iliglulen horses, which, unfortunately, were not successful. Dr. Hosking arrived from Sydney by tho Jlotlraki yesterday. Mr. H. Mulholland, of tho Head Office of the Public Trust Department, who has been transferred to the district agency of that offieo in Dunedin, has been presented by the staff with a silver-mounted walking etick. Captain S. S. Liddiard, formerly known in local nautical circles, died in Wellington oh Monday. Deceased whs ii years of age. Mr. Charles Zachariah, late district agent for tho Public Trust Office in TaraJiaki, lias been anointed branch manager in Wellington, vice Mr. Kendall, transferred to Dunodin. ( ■. Mr. Arthur M'Kee, president of the Tasman Fruitgrowers' Association, Nelson, who has been appointed Dominion delegate to tho Australasian Conference of Fruitgrowers, to be opened in Sydney on October 22, is in Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. M'Kee leave by the Mauugauui tomorrow.

Mr. King, of the Sydney firm of contractors, Mitchell and King, is a visitor to Wellington.

Mr. E. V. West, son of Mr. L. G. West, of Palniorston North, returned' to Now Zlalnnd by the Moeraki yesterday, after five years experience in architectural work in London, America, and on tho Continent. For two and a half years Mr. West was in tho office, of Mr. Mervyii Macartney, F.R.1.8.A., surveyor of tho fabrics of St. Paul's (London) and Durham Cathedral. The surveyor in such ense.i, Mr. West explains, is responsible for the safety of the building under kis charge, and any alterations made or work done is generally on his recommendation. It is his duty to report periodically to tho Dean and Chapter on tho stability and general condition of the structures umlei his cars. Mr. West, was for quite a time engaged on work in connection with the re-decoration of tho interior of the Chapel of St. Michael and St. George (in St. Paul's), which was being supplied Willi a new reretlos, altar screen, and paving. Other works the firm was interested in were tho installation of a steam-heating system in tho cathedral, and the placing in position in the galleries of a number of Merryweather fire-pumps as a precaution rf?flin'st fire. Mr. West shas also had a good look round on the Continent (including n stay of some months in Copenhagen), and has also been some time in America studying modern forms of steelconstruction.

Captains Foster and Robertson were passengers from Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday.

Mr. M. J. Donnelly, part-proprietor of the Now Theatre, Manners Street, returned from a trip to Sydney by the Hoeraki yesterday. He was accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Donnelly.

Mr. Dosborough, of tho Auckland staff of Thps,.,Copk and Son, is at present relieving Mr. H. 11l Cramond, manager of tho firm's local branch.

Thc.foremanT^nßii)eer;-,of[.the Miramar borough Council (Air. C. E. Lvan<=) lias resigned his position in order to tnlce up an appointment as assistant engineer to the Blenheim Borough Council,

Mr. Percy W. Staples, who for the past 18 months has been taking a post-graduate coMrse in the dental hospitals in London, has returned to Wellington, and will shortly oomnience practice.

Tiie death occurred at Drisbano on October 10 of ■Mγ. Edward Bond Baker, a well-known pnstornlist. Ho arrived in Australia -in the early sixties, and the first property owned by him was Mumbledoon Station, New South Wales. H« subsequently transferred his interest to Queensland.