PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2293, 29 October 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. N.. Phillips, secretary cf the Dresden Piano Company, Ltd., was yesterday the recipient of a handsome present from tho company's staff on the evo. of his marriage. ' ■' Tho Hon. W. K. Nikora was granted one.weeks' leavo of absence from the Legislative Council yesterday, on account of ill-health. News has besn received of the' death at Makora, Buckingham, of Miee Lilian Heath, who was the first trained matron of- the Masterton Hospital, and who subsequently conducted a private hospital in that town. The deceased was a sister of Mrs. T. G. Mneon, formerly of Maeterton,'but now in England. The following resolution was passed at the conference"' of His Majesty's Veterans yesterday, on the motion of Colonel T. W- Porter, C.B.:—"That this meeting of delegates of His Majesty's Loyal Veterans desire to respectfully tender their sympathy to Their Excellencies, tho Countess and tfce Earl of Liverpool for the personal 'bereavement sustained by tho death in action of .the brave soldier, Captain the Hon; C. Monck, of the Coldstream Guards, who gallantly gave his life for the Empire." • Mr. J. M. O'Reilly, of the local Customs staff, has been transferred to Dunediu in the.capacity of first-class examining officer, and will take up his new ■ duties about a week hence. . The Rev. A. T. Page, who has been vicar of St. Luke's,' Greytown, for the past 5i years, and who is leaving the district, was farewelled in St. Luke's Sunday Schoolroom on Tuesday evening. Mr. Pago was presented with a purse of sovereigns, tho speoohes made on tho occasion by tho church wardens being of a very flattering character. Miss Marsh, the niece of Mr. Page, who has taken considerable interest in the Sunday School, was also presented with a souvenir by tho Sunday School class.