PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2149, 15 May 1914, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

o— : The Right Hon. W. P. Massc.v Primo Minister) ia at Gisborno, and is expected to return to Wellington on Saturday. Tho Hon. Jns. Allen will arrive to-day from Auckland. The Hon. "W. Fraaor returned last evening from Foilding. Tho Hon. W. H. Herries is nt Hokitika. All tho other Cabinet Ministers are in Wellington. Tho Hon. H. H. : Rhodes and the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher arrived yesterday morning from Christehurch. It : is" -proposed to accord a civic reception to General Sir lan Hamilton on May 22 at 4 p.m. Mr. C. E. Matthews, Chief Qlerk in tho Justice Department and Deputy-In-spector of Prisons, has been appointed Inspector-General of Prisons in succession to Dr. Hay, who has resigned that position ;o'n account of his timo being wholly taken up in attending to hi* duties ns Inspector-General of , Mental Hospitals. Mr. Matthews leaves v today for Australia where ho will inspect tho prison eystem of -Victoria, New South Wales, and possibly Queensland. ,On his return he will report to the Minister of Justico on tho subject. / Mr. J. B. Hino, member for Stratford, arrived in town last evening. Mr. J. G, W. Aitken has returned to Wellington from a sojourn in the Wanganui district, greatly benefited in health. He is so far recovered ns to be able to attend at liis office for a couplo of hours daily. ' • Mr. Harold Beauehamp has returned from a visit to Sydney, whither ho journeyed to attend tho "annual meeting of tho A.M.P. Society. Mr. 0. A. Ewen, general manager for tho Commercial Union Assurance Company, will probably leave on a visit to London in the near future. Mrs. EweiHs at present on a visit-to the •OUI Country. Mr! G. T. Milne, H.M. Trade Commissioner in Australia, who is supervising the New .Zealand offices of the Board of Trade during the absence of Mr. W. G.Wickham in England, arrived from Melbourne at the Bluff on Monday last. He intends travelling overland through tho South making a ihort stay at each of the chief centres. It is expected that he will roach Wellington about the end of the week. The officers of the Department of Lands and Survey propose to make a presentation on Monday next to Mr John Strauch'on, 1.5.0., who recently retired from the position of Undersecretary for Lands. Mr. D. Buick, M.P., ia on a visit to Wellington, •Mr.'Alexander Milne has. been apJointed.au inspector and grader under tho Dairy Industry Act. Mr. John Fuller, junr., who has gone to San Francisco on a health-recuperat-ing trip, was last evening granted three months' leavoof absence by the City Counoil, of which body he is a member. Mr. G. Joachim, general manager of tho Westport Coal Company, is at present on a visit to Wellington. Mr. A. M. Adams,. A.1.A., formerly of tho,Accountants' branch of tho Immigration • Department,' lias been appointed Inspector of the Land and Income Tax Department. Mr. Leonard Bollard Bradstock has been appointed manager of tho Boys' Training Farm at Nelson. Tho Wellington Hospital Committee yesterday decided to recommend the board to grant tho senior and first asBistaiit house surgeons, Dr. M'Caw and Dr. Mitchell, increases of salary as from -May. 1,- in consequence) of recent e.\tra : <Woi , kV i - , "> noii"ic,m ,-oi/iiv Mr. F V. Frazer, S.M., has been appointed Chairman of the Auckland Waitemata, and Parnell Licensing Committee, vico Mr. ErC.'Cutten, S.M. Tho Very Rev. Dean Holley will leavo Wanganui on Tuesday (says our special correspondent), en route for Belgium, whero ho will attend the General Chapter of tho Marist Society as . one of . the three delegates representing 'the ecclesiastical province of New Zealand. It i a probablo that Dean Holley s itinerary will include, if timo permits, a visit to Borne, whero he will bo present at tho Eucharistic Congross. During his three years at Wanganui tho Dean has endeared himself not only to members of his own congregation, ■ but also to- all others with whom he- has come in contact. It is expected that tho Dean's trip to Europe will occupy about six months. ' During his absence tho Rev. Father Mahoney will discharge the duties of parish priest at Wanganui. •The resignation of Mr. William M Lennan as a member of the Wellington Land Board has been officially accepted. Mr. C. A., M'Combio has been appointed a Government Assayer for the purposes of the Gold Duty Act. Mr. Julius Dunlop Donner has bsen appointed an inspector .under the Fish-eries-Act. The following'have been gazetted officiating ministers under tho. Marriage 'Act:—Rev. Oswald R. Hewlett and R. J. Thorpe, M.A.' (Church of England), Mr. Francie G. dimming (Presbyterian), Rev. Rapena Piripi, and Mr. John D. Burnard (Methodist), Rev. Edwin P. Davy, and Pastor Harry John Farmer (Baptist), and Mr. W. G. Oram (Church of Christ). Mr. Henry S. King has been appointed to be registrar oT the Waiariki Native Land Court.

The lionour of those students of Victoria Collect) who nro graduating'this year.will bo held in the Town Hall, on May 21. The central feature of the ceremony will bo tho public presentation of the students graduating. Tho programme will include student songs in chorua, and Mr. John Prouse has con6entcd to sing. General Sir lan Hamilton will speak on tho occasion, also the Prime Minister, if he is ablo to bo present. . , . ' Tho regulations issued by the Secretary for Agriculture at Washington, U.S.A., governing tho introduction of potatoes into tho United States, are published in tho current week's Gazette. Ono clause states: "Permits for. the of potatoes may be iefused, and existing permits may bo cancelled, on proof that tho certificate of inspection does not correctly givo the locality where- the potatoes were grown, character of tho shipment as to freedom from disease or insect infestation, or that tho containers have been previously used for the- shipment of potatoes."