PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2184, 24 June 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Victaltsoit. His JiVMcJlp.nev' ■ iilie. Governor, Lord t.iverpsi'il, lia.6 roi'iscntcd io present llio jEiietlwis. prizes, ?aii<S certi.heates won Ivy candidates in I WoHington Outre hist year in .coith<sf.tip.n with tiic examinaiiuns in music jiield by Trinity Colifi(io of .Music, Lojiuiciii. ' Tljij gather-■iji-R will taiii; ipWjk; bft Tuesday, J.u(j Ji. in the $X'Men Street Schoolroom, .lii.j! Countess oi 1, Vet pool lias aiso signMied b« , r > iittcnMom. <j : f Wrjig present 'pa ■tilt?. occasion, j

Sir llartniann K.0.R., Assistant Secretary of the Coi\onial Office and gectoiary of the linjxViVj&l Coniorence, ai> rived in Wellington luom tile south' yesterday niorniiifc, and \i;, a guest, at (io.vermneiit House. DuVin,™ yesterday lio called upon the Prime iMinister, aii.d ij;ot and conferred vri.th a jVmiiber of'.heads of Departme'its To-nioViow lie uill attend the opening' of Parliament, and on the following day will leaVvo for Roiorua nnd Auckland. Sir Jlartwiann Just's visit to .New Zealand and oUher oversea Dominions is the outcome -oV "a siifeßcs■tion made, at .tho. Imperial- AOonfereiieo that members of the Colonial COfiico.:sta!f sjioui'3 ot&asiattSlty 'vXßi.ti;, : 'tlic : : :lOftjtpstiiijli.Bl' 'fit order feo obtain .'a -kjtw'iV lednft ■of local conditions. He will 'pa ve Now Zealand by the Vancouver stcaine'jf ist July 3on his return t<> England. %

Sir. 13. T, Fis.k, technical mana p>r for Amalgamated "\VircSloss (Austml«sial Ltd , armed m Wellington fioih liotorua yesterday morning. He 'gaunt soutli to Dunedin. rat the. 'end of tlr.O' week, and • probably lie will sail for Australia nt :lio end of lioxi week.

At St. James's Hall, Lower Hull, last ovoninc, the Rm Josl.ua Jones was titf recipient. of a- fnrcwoll proecntntion ffeni iiie Hiitt branch of the Church. of England Men's Society'. :Jlf. D. .M, Yeats, oil behalf of the society, made t)ip presentation,. which consisted of a tjieo.lpgica'l treatise.

The chicf secretary of tho Salvation Ai my (Liouieinnt-Colosiel Poulej) returned from ChrietchmeL yesterday, Ho leavps for Taiircarur.ui.. I'aetihi, aiid Hnst.ngs tlic first week in July.

At the mooting of the Kaiori Borough Council last night, the Mayor (Mr. W T. Hddreth) moved i loto of svmpalhy to Councillor Davies on the death t)i Ins father , _

Included among tho pirty who arc making the tour to Sidney Mid Iwl with the Dominion bowline team, (caving by the Ulinvaroa on Friday, aro Mi. N H Niali cUitot of the "Rlapjivatu Standard-," Mr and Mrs. 11. Cotes. Mr and Airs. I\ .T Ta-jkcr, Miss V. 'lasker, aiyl Mrs. F, Keid.

Mi Duncni NV'cn, sole lessee of His Ma]esU'f> Theatre, Perth, \V A , was a passenger from Sydney, via Auckland, to Wellington yesterday.. ■ Nevcn's present visit, is for the, purpose of managing the Xow Zealand tour of.Mieeha Elm an,. tho Worid-f allied v.ielinist.lt is something over four yc-avs since Mr. Rev®}' was last :iii lis#" Zealand. % ■

Messis A Leigh Hunt, manager- of the NZ, Farmers Co-opeiati\ o Dibti iiivitiiig Co., Lid-., Thos. Moss, president and G L nce-prcsident of theN Z Farmers' Union, Wellington dis trict, left, for the south last eveuijijr, to attend. a conference of the Farmers' Cooperath'o Companies, which is being hole! at Christchurch this week. /

A-dolnide newspapers annbu-nce tlio icsignatiou of Piofcssor liowne, South Australian Director of Agriculture, and formerly. of the Canterbury Agricultuiaj College, Lincoln,,, Professor Lo\\I'e .wl.o enioiotl upojl lijs duties as Dl- - of Agriculture in IDII, at a safan of £1250 per annum, has had a noteworthy career. ■. He. began,',life .as ii iiini' servant in Koxburgshire, ■ and ■subsequentlymoved,to the..Umversi.ty of Edinburgh, white lie maintained himself l>.y teaching until lio had completed the Arts curiiculuni. lie obtained his M.A. degree in 1883, and. in tlm ;fo!lowmg year gained one. of tho Highland Agricultural Society's. bursaries., which enabled Mm to r.o back to tho I'mvetsitv and undertako n course, of studV dealing with the principles of agriculture and ' the physical and najural scienccs. In 18S7" he was.. appointed Professor of Agriculture, mid principal of tilt- Rosen ortftv Agricultural College. The widesjircad regret which \wi.s expressed, when it- was announced, in 1301, that bo contemplated cnteijiif? upon a new- spho're. of labour: in New Zealand was the Inchest tribute which could bo paid .to his ability, and tho value of. Fns services' From 19.0.1 to 1903 Professor I/owrie was. director of Lincoln ('ollogo Ho then resigned that- position to be'co'mo Director of AcricuKu:" in Western Austia'ia, at, a sslnry of £1000 per veni. I" Mav, IfOP, ho declined appointment to tho dhnir' of As.r ; cu!tiire at the t'liivorsily of Sydney,, at £1000 per nullum, with, a Fuaranle, 1 ol a twehe gears' tcim. Fiom tlio Western Stale, .whoie Ikspoilt, t'.vo years; .P>r.ofes.sor...lx>.W 1:10: Wentto ■South Australia.

Tlio annual .conference of the. Piiblio J-orvice Assnciatioii has been postponed from dul\ 7to Ju)\ 20. It his been deeded to bold a dinner on July 22 in hoiipur of the visiting delegates. • 'U;a Pulibc Sen ice Commissionci s, Mim?t"ra of tho Crown, and presidents of Itii}dred •asr-ociations wi.ii bo. invited, and it is stated In the "Public Service JournaT> that the. gatberiiig. will, undoubtedly lie. fully representative of tlio Service. .■ A long list, of renins to be considered at the cohf.6r<!iice. haf been .for- ' warded by various Section*, of the ..association. throughout Now Zealand...