PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2698, 18 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

..The Hon. W. Webster, Federal Post# master-General, is a passenger to New Zealand by \ the Niagara, which left Sydney for Auckland yesterday.—Presj Association.- ■

Mr. John Mackay, Government Pria ter, will retire from the service at thi end of the present month on superannuation.

Mr. Solomon Myers, at present in tha Kensington Street private hospital, was reported this morning to be progressing as favourably as can be expected.

Dr. Hope Lewis, who has been visiting Napier, .returned to Wellington yesterday.

Mr. H. H. Wimsett, of Austin Street, has received advise that his son, Trooper P. P. Wimsett, has been admitted to Pont do Koubbeh Hospital, Alexandria, suffering from palpitation of the heart, but is progressing favourably.

At yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid I3oardj Captain Maurice E. Dcnnistoii, of the honorary dental staff, was grant" eil extended leave of absence.

Mr. G. A. Monk, who has been ap" pointed to succeed Mr. B. 11. Gardener as representative for the Horowhenua County on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, took his seat on the board for the first time yesterday, and was suitably welcomed by the chairman (Mr. H. Baldwin).

' Mr. James Edward ltiddell has been appointed a member of the Waipawa Licensing Committee.

Mr.. Arthur Paape, formerly organises of the Sports .Protection League, and later general organiser of the Political Ket'orm League, wlio is leaving Wellington shortly to take up the management of the Waverley Hot-el, Auckland,' was presented at the meeting of the Sports Bodies Christmas Slutting Fund with a handsomely in scribed gold-mounted umbrella, and .Mrs. Paape with a silver salver, 01. behalf of the sports bodies of Welling* ton. Mr. Paape, said the chairman, was one of the keenest sports passible, and he was perfectly-satisfied that the amateur sports bodies _ throughout New Zealand would wish him every success in his new sphere. His going would be a. .great loss to Wellington, but wherever Mr. Paape might be au.f movement for the benefit of the lads aif the front would have his hearty support. They could not let Mr. Paape go without showing him in some way, their appreciation of what lie had dona for the sports bodies of "Wellington m the time he had been with them; and also for the boys in the trenches .-Several other speakers also paid a tribute to Mr. Paape's work on behalf of sport and the men at the front. ;