PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2215, 30 July 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regis. His Excellency the Governor, lxwsl' Liverpool, as patron of the Wellington Orphans' Club, will be the guest of tho club on nest Siturday evening.

Mr. King, acting-manager for Messrs. Thomas Oook and Son in Weilington, returned from a holiday visit to Sydney yesterday.

Mr. W. Bennett has resigned the chairmanship of "the Wellington • branch of the Shipowners' Federation, and Mr W. E. Fuller, shipping manager for Messrs. Levin and Co., has been appointed to fill;the vacancy. Mr. Beuliett, who is managing director'of che South Taranaki Steam Ship Comaany, will take up his new duties as manager of the Wellington Employers' Co-opera-tive Wharf Labourers' Association on August 10. Mr. Edwin Hall,',of Auckland, has resrgnedthe secretaryship of the A. arid P. Societies' Association.' A hearty vote of thanks was accorded by the association's conference yesterday, to Mr. ; Hall, and several tributes were paid to the good work' which he has done while holding the office. ■ ( .

The funeral of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bloomfield and Miss Hilda IJloomfieldj victims of tlie Empress of. Ireland disaste-, took place in Auckland yesterday, Mr. Bloomfield being buried with military honours.. Representatives of many, public. bodies attended, and thousands lined the streets. Colonel Logan represented His Exccllency the Governor aiid Colonel . Braitliwaite represented General Sir A. Godloy.— Tress Association.

• Mr. Charles M'Malion, lessee of the New Theatre, returned from Sydney by the Maunganui yesterday.

Mr. B. (j. Aston, Chief Chemist of the New Zealand Department of Agriculture, who is at present on a business lour to Great Britain, has been an-, fchoinsed.by the Vriine Minister to extend his visit to France and the United Statyp. Mr. P. S. l'opo, Secretary for Agriculture, in mailing this announcement at the A. and P. Conference yesterday, stated that it was thought that when Mr. Aston returned would havo f omo very valuable reports to make.

Captain Shawo, A.D.C. to His Excel-, lency the Governor, who has been staying in Fiji oh a visit, arrived in Auck- ' land 011 Tuesday by the Vancouver boat. Dr. D. M'Gavin, of Wellington, arrived in Auckland on Tuesday from a 12 months' tour , abroad, accompanied bv- Mrs. M'Gavin and their son. Dr. M'Gavin spent his holiday in England, the Continent, and America, and returns greatly benefited in health, and keenly impressed with the wonderful progress which is .being made in the sciences of medicine and eurgery. Ques- 1 tioned by an Auckland ''Star" reporter in, regard to the use of radium in London hospitals and similar institutions jn other parts of the world. Dr. M'Gavin said that radium was still being experimented with, and anything accomplished was only in its relation, to the experimental stage. Leading men _at Home were hopeful, however, of gaining results wliich would ■ultimately ß prove thoroughly satisfactory.