PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

Their Excellencies the Governor and tho Countess of Liverpool leave Wellington to-day for Ruanui, whero tlioy will he tho guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Studholme. On February 3, Their Excellences leavo Ruamu for Auckland. They will leave that evening in the Tutauekai from Onehunga, and will visit certain of tho coast towns north of .Auckland,, and also Tauranga, arriving about the middle of February at Christchurch, where Their Excellencies will bo in residence for several weeks.

The Hon. A. L. Herdman returned to tho north yesterday.

The Hon. Dr. M'Nab is at present on a visit to Gisborue.

The City Engineer (Mr; W. H. Morton) is leaving on a holiday trip to Sydney by tho Manuka on Thursday next. He will probably return to Wellington by, way of Auckland and tho East Coast.

A Press Association message from Napier states: —Mr. W. W. Bird, M.A., for man}' years inspector of _ Native schools, has been appointed chief inspector of schools for Hawke's Bay, vico Mr. H. Hill, retired on superannuation. Dr. G. Hart Osborne, of Opotiki, has arranged to go to Hotorua in February for war relief work. Dr. Scott Watson, whom he will relieve at Rotorua, is going to the front. .

At the meeting of the Governors of the Wellington and Girls' Colleges yesterday morning, Miss Jean Robertson, M.A., who has been on the temporary staff of the Girls' College, was given a permanency as an assistant mistress. Miss Robertson specialises in domestic science.. . Miss Hilda, J. Adlington; M.A., was also appointed an assistant mistress. Miss Adlington comes from Auckland, and was last engaged on the staff of the Whangarei Hifih School. The Board considered the appointment of an assistant master at Wellington College, but final decision was Referred. .

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, of 9 Fatanga Crescent, received information yesterday that their eldest son, Sergeant Watkin Lewis, of the sth N.Z. Reinforcements, had been reported dead by the Court of Inquiry at Alexandria. The deceased, was N stated for some time to have been in hospital, but apparently a mistake in identity has been made. A younger brother, Private Tom Lewis, was killed in action on August 10. Another brother, Lieutenant S. E. Lewis, is at present in camp at Trentham. The late Sergeant Lewis was a married mah, aged forty-nine years, and resided in Wangauui.

Pipe-Major C. C. M'Donald, of the Wairarapa Caledonian l'ipo Band, has enlisted for service abroad, and will go into camp with the Thirteenth Reinforcements.

Mr. Allan Hamilton, the well-known. Australian theatrical manager, who is about to leave Wellington for London, intends to spend several weeks in South America en route. Mr. Hamilton is at present interested in the lease of a London theatre. Mr. J. W. Davis, formerly of the New Zealand Survey Department, has received tho appointment of chief draughtsman to the Survey Department of tiainoa, which, since tho occupation of the islands by Great Britain, has been taken over by the Imperial authorities, and of -which Mr. Norman H. M'Donald, another New Zealander, is chicf Mr. Davis was for twenty-one years inspecting surveyor in the New Zealand service. _ Then he held in succession the positions of chief draughtsman in the offices in Wellington, Christchurch, and Auckland—whi j ther he camo for the purpose of reorganising the Land Transfer Ollice. Subsequently ho became chief draughtsman in the Wellington district officc, and next m the head ollice of tho Department. About six years ago Mr. Davis retired on superannuation, and since then ho' has been engaged in private surveying in the Rotorua and Hokianga district. Ho will leavo for Samoa by the March steamer. , ,

The Rev. G. Ernest Hale, of the Uni- I tarian Church in Wellington, who has been visiting the South Island, returned to Wellington on Thursday. The Hector Memorial Award and Prize for 191 C has beon awarded by tho New Zealand Institute to Sir Ernest Rutherford, F.R.S., and Professor of Physics at Manchester University. Mr. Haydn Deck, the gifted Wanganui violinist, who was in Belgium when tho war 1 broke out, will probably give a concert in AVellington to-morrow week. Mr. Beck, who was heard in Wellington as a child prodigy, is" not yet seventeen years of age, and it is gratifying to 'learn that the talent he possessed as a child has been allowed to mature under favourable conditions. His playing at a recent recital in Wanganui pleased even the ultra critical, since when he has conducted an orchestral concert with equal success. Lieutenant W. Organ, ox-Mayor of Eastbourne, is to be accorded a farewell at Muritdi' this evening. On account of that gathering tho last boat for town will not leave Rona Bay until 10.30 p.m. , A statue of tho late Canon Jordan was unveiled in the Tauranga Domain on Wednesday by tho Hon. W. H. Herries (states a Press Association message). Tho late canon was for forty years vicar of. Tauranga and several times Mayor of tho town. He died in October, 1912. The statue was erected by subscribers —friends in Tauranga and throughout tho Dominion. Tho weather was wet, and mitigated against tho attendance, which included representative men from To Puke, Katikati; and elsewhere. Speeches were delivered by Mr. Herries and Mr. M'Millan (Mayor of Tauranga), the Rev. E. D. Bice, and others, eulogising tho late canon.