PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1986, 17 February 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Eight Hon, W. P. Massey and tho Hon. W. H, Merries are at Tau' ranga. the Hon. Jas, Allen at Hastings, and the Hon. F, M.. B. Fisher at j)uiicdin, The other Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington. :

Tho Hon. Dr. Pomitre goes up tho Waiiganui River to-day (teTegr,apßs.Qar special correspondent) to Hiruharania, where ho will address a meeting of Na? tires-.

Mr.' W. A. Hotmail, Premier of New South Wales, accompanied by Mrs. Holmaii, and Mr. E. .• JL Hafkiicss (private secretary), aro staying, at the Soyat Oak Hotel. This morning Mr. Hojfnan .wi'l'l,,)io.,<!fiici'al'.ly,w,elcompd: ; tio the.city at a civic reception at tho Town Hall at 11 o'clock, and in tho afternoon tho NewSouth Wales Premier will be tho guest. of honour ■at tho - New Zealand' Club. luncheon. Tho party will leave for the south this evening.

Mr, It. T. Sadd, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Hawke's Bay, and Mr. T. Hyde, a rne;njber of the Hawke's Bay Land Purchase Board arrived in Wellington by the Napier express Isist evening to. attend a meeting of tho Land Purchase- Board in Wellington in w nn.eetion with estates in. Hasto's Bay.

The term of office as directors of tho B.'mk ■of New Zealand of Mossr?. IX J. Nathan (Wellington) and Milne (Qaniaru) expires on March 3j. Both gentlemen were the nominees of the late Liberal Government.

Mr. J. 6. W. Aitken,,' who has recently undergone an Operation, in a private hospital, is reported to be making satisfactory progress t<:i\ai-ds ret;o\ery.

_ At thp annual meeting of the Wellington Gas Company Mr. J. H. Helliwell, the secretary, was granted sis months' leave of absence. During, that timo Mr. Holliwell proposes' paying a visit to the Old Country,

Mr. W. E. Galdpwj of Wellington, is in Auckland on a brief visit.

Mr. W, iES. Jackson, who lias been acting hs general Manager for Gordon and Gotbh Proprietary in' Melbourne for nine months past in tile- absence erf Mr. Cox {who lias been touring tho Old World), returned to. Wellington on Sunday,, to resuine the .Dominion manBnwsent.

Mr. Hugh.. Mitchell-, provincial secr-fe tary of the Otaijo branch of the 'Farmers Union, is- visiting Auckland.

■ Dr. M. Birks, medical superintendent of the Broken Hill Hospital, Npsv -Soirt-h Wales, who v h.as been attending the Medical Conference at Auckland, rives in Wellington by tlvis' morning's express. Dr. Birks will be the guest of the Hon. .G< SJ. Luke today. This evening he leaves for thp smith to visit his brother, Mr. Lawrence Birks, engineer of the Lake Coleridge water power works. Dr. Birks returns to Sydney by the Moerafci on Friday next. ' ' ' .

Aldftrman Djddams, C.JI.S., .of Brisbane, is on a visit- to Ms Auckland relatives, and is 6taymg with his sister, Mrs, F. J. Kenderdiue,'at Remeiifa.

Professor Aboil, who has ten appointed Chief Ship Surveyor at JJoyds, Was bow hi. 1577, and, after graduating at "Jsllo principal iiaval._ engineering collegesj was appointed in 190.0 to tho Royal Corps of Naval. Constructors. Subsequently lio served lis secretary to the Director of Naval Construction;, while thereafter ho acted, as instructor in Naval Arehitftctiiro at tho' Royal Naval College, while'in 1910 ho went to Liverpool't'niversity to take tho chair of Naval Architecture. Ho is tiiiive'rs» ally recognised as si man of. .pa-rtjj, fts may bo authored from tho fact that iii 1913 lio was appointed, by tho -Board of Trade a member of tho Loadlino Coinmitteo, which is still sitting'. Professor Abel is a great authority on the question of the reltttivm strength of naval structures to- freeboard, while; ho is clso exjjort in "every branch of nn.va-1 work.