PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1581, 26 October 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vice-Regal. His Excellency the Governor is due to arrive from the south this morning. Ho will attend the rases at Trentham this afternoon. Tlio Rev. Dr. Gibb, of St. John's CluiToh, is to preach at Knox Church. Dimodin, to-morrow, and the Rev. H. Kvan Pavics, of Knox Church, is to .nil Iho pulpit at St. John's to-morrow. Mr. G. F. K. Adams, India, las just been selected to servo on a Commission, formed by the Government of India, to inquire into the best way of managing and looking after pilgrims at the big religious fairs that are held all over India. He managed a very large fair at Allahabad last vear, for which ho got a great deal of credit, and at which he had over two million pilgrims to look after. Not a single hitch occurred. Ho also had charge of a similar fair at Meerut lately. Mr, G. F. K. Adams is a son of Mr. C. IV. Adams, Bellevuo Road, Lower Hutt, and brother of Mr. C. 0. Adams, Government Astronomer, 'Wellington, N.Z.

Members of the Auckland staff of the M.L.C. Assurance Company assembled en Wednesday evening at tile company s office to bid good-bye to Mr. 11. J. Walters, i-ssistnnt superintendent, who has been promoted to (he position of superintendent at Nelson branch. On behalf of the staff, .Mr W. M. Robinson, superintendent, pre. sontod Mr. Walters with a haidsonic case, of pipes suitably inscribed, as a small token of the high esteem in which ho 13 held by all associated with him, and congratulated him upon his promotion. Mi'. Walters repiiel in appreciative terms, thanking tho staff for their good wishes end lionds.ime sift.

Mr. S. Binning, of the teaching staff at tho Wellington Technical School has been granted six weeks' leave of absence for reasons of ill-health..

Mr. Vivian Smith, an Associate of the Royal College of Art at South KcnsniKton, with teaching experience at the Sheffield Technical School of Art and the Sheffield Training Collego for Teachers, has been appointed assistant art instructor at the Wellington Technical School. Mr. Smith has iust'completed a five years course at tho Royal College of Art. H» will leave for New Zealand by the lurakina, and will take up his new duties at the beginning of the new school year.

On the occasion o( Mr. Gcoigo L. Cameron severing his connection with Levin and Co., Ltd., Mr. B. S. Withers, accountant, took the- opportunity of speaking in tlic highest terms of the good fellowship existing between tho staff and Mr. Camcjoii, and on behalf of the employees presented him with a handsome and suitablyinscribed suit caso and set of razors. Mr. Cameron, joins tho firm of Messrs. Ua Pelichot, M'Leod, and Co.

A meeting of tho executive of tho Dunedin Expansion League was held yesterday to appoint a secretary. Forty-four applications had been received, and it was decided to appoint Mr. G. N. 0. Arber, at present in the office of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company at Timaru.-l'ress Association. Tho Venerable Archdeacon Stacker, who has been vicar of St. John's Church, in InvorcargM for thirty years, and is now retiring, was met yesterday afternoon by a large gathering of citizens and presented with a purso containing 235 sovereigns. Speeches of a most complimentary nature lor.wliiig (he archdeacon s public services ' o Invereargill were made by Iho Major (Mr. Scandrctt), Colonel H*wkr™ representing tho military), Mr. J. L. Watson (representing the abacus), and also bv of the clergy and vano,s societies with which tho nrehdeocoa «,s connected. The presentation is sa d to be tho most substantial yet made m Invercargill, and the subscriptions were received without a single persona apphcation by way,of canvass being mode.I'rcsg Association.