PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1615, 5 December 1912, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Only two of the Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington to-day, the Hon. H. D. Bell and the Hon. W. H. Hemes. The Hon. W F. Mansey (Prime Minister) and the Hon. W. Fraser left by the Maori last night en route for Lawrence, where they 'will attend a banquet to the Hon. James ■Ulen on Friday. The Hon. A. L. Herdman left for Auckland by the second express last night. Tho Hon. E. H Bhodes will attend tho banquet to Mr, Allen tomorrow. The Hon. Dr. Pomare is in Otaso, and the Hon. F. 11. B. Fisher is still at Christchurch.

The Hon. A. L, Herdman, the author of the Public Service Act, has accepted. an invitation from the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Civil Service Association to be present at their annual dinner in Christchurch on Saturday, December 14 A letter of congratulation has been sent to Mr. D: Robertson, Chief Commissioner under the Act, and a similar invitation has been extended to him and to his brother Commissioners.

i Dr M'Gavin returned from a visit to Australia by the Maunganui yesterday.

Mr. J. Newman Barker, having decided to retire from the chief inspectorship in Australia for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, it is announced that Mr Walter F. Lawry has been appointed to that position from January 1. Mr. Barker has accepted a scat on the Australian board. , { Mr. G. Barltrop, accountant to the Government Life Insurance Department, and Mrs. Barltrop.'returned from a visit to England by the Maunganui yesterday.

Dr. Tβ Kangihiroa, who sailed by the Tofua on Tuesday from Auckland for Niue (one of tho outlying islands of the Cook Group) is to act for several months"' as medical officer v until a permanent. appointment is made. The* island lias a-na-tive population of about 4000, which is double that of Earotonga, the Pi m fiP al unit of the Cook Group, and 37 whites are resident upon it. Dr. Te Eangihiroa was npcompanicd by his wife. Mr.' E. Faulkner, of tho Union Company's Strauchan (Tasmania) office, arrived from Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday, Mr. Faulkner is on holiday leave.