PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2720, 15 March 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. W. F.Massey (Prime Minister) intends to visit his own electorate early next week.

The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward (Finance Minister) returns from ;the ■south this morning. «

The Hon. W. Eraser (Minister of Public Works) proposes to visit theKawhia district this week..

" Mr. "W. A. Kennedy, manager of the local office of the Union Company, arrived from tho south by the Mararqa yesterday morning, after a vacation taken for health-recruiting ' purposes. Ho. expects to resumeSiis duties on Monday next. •

Mr. Phil. Myers, of Messrs. J. Myers and Co., Wellington, has retired .from tho road after 30 years' traveling. He is being succeeded by Mr. W. M'Kinnon, late representative of Messrs; Sargood, Son, andrßwen, Ltd., Wellington.

Mrs. A. Corliss and Miss V. Corliss, of Wellington, are, passengers by_ the Arawa, due here from London^to-night.

" Dr. V. P. Mundon is a passenger for Auckland, due here by the Arawa tonight. Mr. Joseph Joseph, .of Wellington, is a passenger by the same steamer.

The military officers to arrive by the Arawa from London to-night' include Majors ■ 13. Cox, of 'Wellington, and Majors W. Sinel and F. • Wood, oi Auckland, Lieutenant; P. Hunt, of Wellington, and Lieutenant G. Abbott, of Auckland. .

The Rev: -J. and Mrs. Diokie, of Port Chalmers; the Rot. M. and Mrs.' Frater, of Canterbury; and the Rev. 0. and Mrs. Kennedy, of Wellington, are passengers from London' by the Arawa, M-hich is due here to-night.' t

Lieut. W. Symons, V.C./of Sydnoy, Was a' passenger from London as far as Hobart by the Arawa, due lere tonight.

Mr. T. T. King, chief postmaster .at Invercargill, took up the duties of act-ing-chief postmaster at.Dunedin yesterday, Tics Mr. H'Hutoheson, resigned.

His Grace-Archbishop Redwood, who is at present out of -town,'ls expected to return in time to assist in the St. Patrick's Fay celebrations.

Moloney ,\ a well-known . resident of- Napier, is' dead, aged 3 s seventy-two. ; Mr;; Moloney arrived •in

HawkeVßay fifty years ago; and took part in the Maori War. For twentynine j'ears ,he was a Native sohool teacher.

Mr. D. Sinclair, engineer and clerk to the Poh'angina County Council, has tendered his resignation for . health Teasons. The resignation -was accepted with regret, and Mr. Sinclair's services

were warply eulogised.

• Mr. J. M. Niall is retiring from "the /position of general manager of GoldsL trough,' Mort, and Co., Ltd., at an early date.. _ He will, however, keep closely associated with the company's ""business, ajid continue to act al a director. Mr. •W. A. Gibson has been appointed general manager as from , April 1 next, and Mr. A. F. Hooper manager of the Melbourne office. , It is understood that Mr. _ Andrew Thomson, Assistant Public Service Commissioner, will, bo. the Commissioner to conduct the public inquiry' arising out of certain charges of disloyalty against an officer of the New Zealand Army. Mr. Thomson was a Stipendiary Magistrate before he became one of the Public Service Commissioners. Dr. R. Cyril E. Atkinson, M.A., :M.D., D.P.H., who has been appointed ( Commissioner of Public Health for West Australia, was educated.at Christchnrch Boys' High School, Canterbury College, and Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities. He is a captain in the West Australian 'Medical Corps (Mounted Fqrces), and Chief Medical Transport i Officer at Fremantje. Dr. Atkinson is a son of 'Mr. Atkinson, formerly of Chri6tchnrch Telephone Exchange. At the Lambton Quay Station last evening late Senior-Sergeant Mullaney, who has been appointed subinspector at Christchurcli, was, on the eve of his departure for the south, made the recipient of a handsome silver tea service as a mark of esteem from the Wellington staff. The presentation was made by Inspector Hendry, who wished the reoipient every success in his new sphere of action. SubInspector M'Kinnon also referred to Sub-Inspector MuUatiey's many good qualities and assiduous attention to duty, to which remarks a suitable' response was made.

The death occurred at Auckland last week of Mr. JohnI'.1'. Laugmuir, Government Inspector of Surveys. The • deceased, who was 61 years of age, came to. New Zealand from Melbourne 34 years ago. He became a surveyor, arid carried on his -professional duties in Otago. He was subsequently chief draughtsman in tho , Government service at New Plymouth; and occupied the position for three'years. For'the past ten years ho held 'the post of Government Inspector of Surveys. Ha leaves a widow, three sons, and one daughter. Mr. William Riley, a well-known resident of Wellington, died at his daughter's residence, Kelbnrn l'arado, on Monday evoning. Tho deceased was a printer by trade, and in his youthful days fie was apprenticed to Blackwood's, of Edinburgh. Late in the '50's he left the Old Country for Victoria, and 6ome years later he settled in Otai/o, where he was a _ comjiosit'or on t-ho "Otago Daily Times." He was one of the pioneers of the Gabriel's Gully Tush, and afterwards he went to the West Coast goldfieldsj where he ran a, small paper and did* the Government printing. Later he lived in Lytteltoh, and established a small newspaper there, but tho publication. did not survive very long. He then entered the employ of the Government, mid for some time was official printer at the Lyiielton Gaol. About the late 'BO's ho loft Lyttelton, and became a canvasser for the Government Life Insurance Department in Otago. In ISBP lie transferred to Wellington, and un till a few years ago ho was still employed by the Government Life'lnsnrance Departmont as canvasser.. For twenty-eight, years the late Mr. Ililey was a member of the Wellington Bowling Club. One widowed daughter, Mrs. David Wylio, survives him,