PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1769, 6 June 1913, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Vice-Regal. His Excellency tho Governor will arrive from Auckland to-day.

Tho Hon. W. F. Massey (Prime Minister), tho Hon. Jas. Allen, and tho Hon. \V. If. Homes arrived from Auckland yesterday. The Hon. H. 1). Bell will arrivo from Christchurch this morning. Tlio Hon. W. Frasur is at Christchurch and is expected to return to Wellington on Sunday morning. Tho Hon. Dr. Poma.ro is at Auckland, and tho Hon. A. L. lTcrdm.ui and the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher aro in Wellington. The Hon. If. 11. Hbodes visited th» Waikato Winter Show and the district hospital yesterday and aflorwards reoeived a number of deputations. 110 reached Cambridge last night and today will visit To Awamutu and the Tokaanui Mental Hospital, going on to tlio Waitomo Caves in.tho afternoon.

Major-General Godley returned to Wellington from Auckland by last evening's Main Trunk express. The Hon. 11. F. Wigram, M.L.C., and Mrs. Wigram left Christchurch on lues day on a visit to Groat Britain. They will probably return to the Dominion in January. Mr. G. Thorne-Gcorge, wlio has been spending a few months in tho Old Country, returned to Auckland by tho Makura on Tuesday. Judge A. \V. Kent, of tho State of Michigan, U.S.A., arrived by tho Makura from Vancouver on Tuesday. Judge Kent, who is staying in Auckland for a week, will afterwards continue on his tour round the world. Professors H. W. Segar and C. W. Egerton have been elected as representatives of tlio Professorial Board to thu Auckland University College Council. Constable Brown, until recently stationed at Mastortou, lias boon appointed to take charge of tho Tinui police station, in place of Constable Collerton. Tho latter has retired on superannuation after being in charge of . Tinui station for over thirty years. He will settle in tho district. Mr. R-. M. Goldsman has been appointed clerk of tho Licensing Committee'for Uko district of Otaki, vice Mr. T. O'Eourko. In tho election of a member to represent the Crown tenants of the' Wairarapa district on the Wellington Laud Board, held yesterday, Mr. H. T. Ellinghain, the retiring member, was re-elected. The voting was as follows:—H. T. Ellingliam. 827; T. O. Haycock, 226; informal, 25. Mr. William Jolins has been reappointed by the Governor a wembqr or tlio Auckland Land Board. The following members of J. C. Williamson's "Puss in Boots" Company are staying' at the Albert Hotel:—Miss Ivy Schilling) Mr. Kupert Darrell, Mr. and Mrs. Georgi? Miller, Mr. and Mrs, Sim Collins, Mr. Alex. Wilson, treasurer, and Mr. Richard Stewart, business manager. Mr. A. H. Miles, resident partner of till firm of Messrs. Murray, Roberts wd Co., will leave on a trip to Australia by the Moeraki to-day. Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie, - who failed from London on May 10 with the intention of practising his .profession, in Auckland, won during his medical oourso four medals and nine class prizes. _ In 1908 he graduated M.8., Ch.B., with finstclass honours at Edinburgh University, and was awarded tho Freeland Barbour Ifessarch Scholarship in Midwifery. Ho than became honse surgeon at Bolton Infirmary houee physician to Dr. G, A. Gib-' son, and house surgeon to Professor Alexis Thomson at tlio Boyal Infirmary, Edinburgh. Later ho was house surgeon to Chalmers Hospital. Edinburgh. For a year be held the appointment of assistant to the Professor of Anatomy, at Edinburgh University, and was a research. studont in the laboratory of Pi l0 * fessor Scliafer. In 1911 he graduated M.D. of Edinburgh., and was awarded a gold medal and the Victoria Jubilee Memorial Prize in obstetrics for a thesis ou tho secretion of milk. This work was later ipublished in tlie' Journal of Experimental Physiology"; it has since been widelv quoted, and. an a recent address delivered in Liverpo# Professor Schnfer, President of ,tho >ntish spoke highly of it. It is that Dr. Mflckenzio was among tlie lirsfc in thi/5 field of research.' In 1912 licwas admitted a Fellow' of the Boyal College of SiiTgeons of England, and also uassed the examination for the degree of Master of Surgerv of Edinburgh University. Purine tlie past year lie bos been medical superintendent- of fto Stanley Hospital Liverpool, and has also beon- demoting himself to the study of local anaesthesia, on wliicli subject he presented a thesis for the degree of Master of Surgery of Edinburgh. Dr. Mackenzie. who is tho eldest Zm of the High Comimss.oner, joined tho ranks of the on the eve of his departure from England, v