PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2393, 24 February 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. T. H.' A. ;Valintine, InspectorGeneral of Hospitals, returned to Auckland by the.Matatua on Sunday, after a visit to England. He left Auckland on Monday for Cambridge, where he inspects Te Waikato Sanatorium. 'He will arrive in Wellington in a day or two. ■ ■ ■ / The Rev. S. J. Serpell, President of the New Zealand Methodist Conference, has gone to Christchurch to attend the annual conference. . . . ' Mr. J. L. Morrison, New Zealand representative of Messrs. I. and R. Morleyf of London, is leaving by the Moana next week for San Francisco, en route to London. , • The Mayor of Lower Hutfc (Mr. H. Baldwin) will again be a candidate for the forthcoming Mayoralty. A private cablegram was received yesterday announcing that Mr. Leslie H. Beauchamp, who left Wellington on December. 25 last, to join the colours, ; has , obtained v a commission in ' the South Lancashire Regiment. Passengers from England by the Ruahine, which arrived yesterday, inoluded: Mrs. E. Baume, Mrs. F. Norton, and Miss D. C. Nathan, of Auckland; and Mrs. E. B. Seymour, of Nelson.

The Rev. M. .Tait, of Adelaide, arrived from Sydney by the Moeraki yes-' terday. He is on a holiday visit to Chrietchurch, where he was formerly located.

Mr. A.W. Hogg was appointed the Education Board's representative on the Masterton Technical School Board, at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Education Board. -

The Rev. D. G. Brown, who is to attend the New Zealand Methodist Conference, was a passenger from Sydney by tho Moeraki yesterday. He will probably spend a couple of months in the Dominion.

. Father Fanning, who leaves. Darfield, Canterbury, for Australia this week, was one of the first two priests of the Sacred Heart Order to come to New Zealand/ . ./■'

At yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Education Board, a vote of sympathy was passed to Mr. C. M. liuke, a of the board, in the loss of his brother, Mr. George Luke. Mr. T! H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, was among the arrivals by yesterday's ferry steamer from Lyttelton. '' : Mr. P. S, K. Macassey, of the Crown. Law. Oifice, returned to Wellington from the south yesterday morning. '■'.Mr. C. N. Baevertz was a passenger from Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday. Dr. Neil M'Dougall, of Auckland, re-' turned from a : visit to the Old Country by the Ruahine yesterday.. Mr. John Court, Auckland's senior councillor and Deputy-Mayor, has decided to contest tlie_ Mayoralty of Auckland at the unanimous request of the council members. Mr J./H. Gunson, chairman of the Harbour Board, has also consented to nomination. Prior to his departure for Napier, where he has been transferred' from Dunedin, Detective-Sergeant Ward was met on Wednesday last by a large gathering of city and suburban police, and, was presented with a suit-case as a mark of esteem and regard.. Constable (West, of Roslyn, made the presentation, and conveyed to Detective Ward the congratulations and' best wishes of all present. During his stay in Dunedin, Detective Ward made himself, extremely popular. Mr. P. H. Richardson, who has been a member of the staff of George and George, Cuba Street, for'the ; past 12years, and manager of the Manchester department for 10 years of that time, was farewelled by the firm and employees on Friday, prior to his departure for Australia. Mr. Lance George, in making a presentation of a cheque from George and George, and a silver tea and coffee service/from the employees, spoke in eulogistic terms of the services Mr. Richardson had rendered tho firm, and expressed regret atlosing his valuable assistance. Mr. Richardson suitably acknowledged the gifts and good wishes expressed.' Mr. F. Morgan, M.Sc., at present science master on the staff of the Wellington Training College, has been appointed lecturer by the Wellington Education Board. ]\l:bs W. I. G. Maitland has been appointed kindergarten mistress by the Wellington Education Board in succes-. sinn to Miss Fitch, who has resigned. Miss 'Maitland was Educated at . the Fielder Demonstration School, Manchester, and later hold a position-at'the Dudley Training College.At a- meeting of the Wellington Education Board, held yesterday afternoon, Miss J. I- Hetherington, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin, and 8.A., New Zea- . Jsftid, was appointed tutor and librarian. I.i addition to' several other diplomas Miss Hetherington hold* a degree certificate with honours, Girton College, Cambridge, and a' Teacher's diploma from London University.