PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2685, 3 February 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the Governor (the Earl of Liverpool) has accorded his patronage to the Returned Soldiers' Club, Wellington, organised by Captain Donald Simson. The Minister of Defence (the Hon. J. 'Allen) will leave for the north to-day. The Hon. Arthur Myers, Minister of Customs, left lastXevening by the Main Trunk express for Auckland, where he will remain for a few days. The Public Trustee (Dr. Fitchett) and Mrs. Fitchett returned from a trip to Australia by the Manuka yesterday. Major Kington 'Fyffe, formerly of Wellington, and organist of vSt. Peter's Church, who was invalided. to London from Anzae, via Egypt, underwent an operation for the removal of a shrapnel splint in London, and is reported to bo fit and well again, and looking forward to further service. Mr. Roland Foster, who came to Australia with Madame Clara Butt and Mr. Kennerley Rumford on their last tour, and has since become well known ■ as a vocal teacher in Sydney, has been appointed Professor of Singing at the N.S.W. State Oonservatorium of Music, .. Sydney, under the directorship of Mr. Henri Verbrugghen. *' Mr. S. H. Underwood, who has been on a fortnight's motoring tour in the Rangitikei,' returned to Wellington on Tuesday evening. • . Captain It. L. Evatt returned from „ • Sydney on Tuesday for further service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. Mr. E. A. Burke, of Greymoutb, and Mr. Thos. Pioktip, of Duncdin, are staying at the Albert Hotel. Mr. Rowley, Secretary for Labour, has left Wellington for the Sooith Island on a visit of inspection. Mr., and Mre. Leo Buckeridge returned on Tuesday evening from Nelson, where they have hefen spending a holiday, . Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, the war correspondent, is to commence his lecturing tour of Australasia at Sydney on Saturday week. Mr. Webster, the Commonwealth Postmaster-General will visit New Zealand about' the middle of the present month to inquire into, various phases of postal administration. Archbishop who accompanied His Excellency Monsignor Cerretti, to Napier, has returned to Wellington. .The Papal Delegate is now on his way to Auckland, via Taupo and Rotorua. Mr. T. J. Parker, formerly manager of the Huddart-Parker S.S. Company's .office at Dunedin, who left for London last October, has been appointed seo- ! ond lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, England. Cable news has been received privately from Mr. A. de B. Brandon, jun.,_ notifying his friends that he has i obtained a commission in the Royal Fly- I ing Corps. ' ' ■ Captain Wylie, of the Riverina, was ' a passenger from Sydney by the Ma- | nuka yesterday.

Amongst the passengers to arrive from Sydney yesterday was Mr. Robert M'Millan, for some.years editor of tho "Stock and Station journal," in which paper he still retains a considerable interest. Ho is a director of the Independent Cable Association of Australasia, and has come to New Zealand to represent the papers of New South .Wales at the conference of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, to be held at Rotorua on February 17. Mr. M'Millan left for Christchurcli last evening, where he has a number of friends.