PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2722, 17 March 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (the Bight Hon.. W. F. Massey) is going north on Sunday uight to "his own electorate, wheio he has certain duties to perforin. Ho will open a new post office, open two' new bridges, and lay tho fourdation stone of a church. In the north not necessarily ill his own district alono, Mr. Massey intends to take part in the work of organising the recruiting schwnio.

Tho Hon. W. Webster and liis privato secretary (Mr. Campbell) left for Australia by the Mocraki yesterday.

The Hon. T. Thompson, M.L.0., is malting a. good recovery from tho motor-car accident ho mot with' at Kotorua a short time ago. He has made such satisfactory progress that on Friday last all the bandages were'removed'and his arms placcd under X-rays. It is quite probable that lie will refrain tho use of both arms. _ Mr. C. B-. Taptier, who was injured in the same accident, is on the.road to convalescence, and is able to walk about with the assistance of crutches.

■Mr. Edwin Kirk, an old settler in Wellington, died on' Tuesday, at the age of seventy-six. Twenty 'years ago ho removed from Wellington lo Palmerston, but returned eleven months agq. Ho leaves two sons (Messrs. W. and F.. Kirk, uf Palmerstnn), and two daughters (Mesdames Sands and Kilfov, of WellwKtoni.

Mr. William Lane, editor of th«' "New Zealand Herald," arrived in Wellington yesterday afternoon, on his way to Mount Cook. '

Colonel R. J. Collins, C.M.G., has been appointed a member of the War Pensions Board, vice Colonel G. F. C. Campbell (resigned).

The Rev. Isaac Jolly, minister of St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Ponsonby, has been absent from his parish for some weeks owing to ill-health. He left by the Westralia on Tuesday, accompanied by Mrs. Jolly, for Dunedin, where he intends spending li short holiday.

Mr. C. E. Matthews, Inspector of Prisons, is visiting the prison 'establishments in the Waikato.

Mr. ,W. C. Downs, who has beeit United States Commercial Attache in. Australia for nearly a year, and has now been transferred t-o Brazil, is at present in Wellington, en Toute to Rio de Janeiro.

Mr. S. lJuntinj;, formerly of Master-" ton, but who has been living for some years in the Malay States,' and in Queensland, left Wellington yesterday by the Mooraki for Sydney, to enlist with the Australian Forces for the front.

Mr. N. 1 C. Snedden, the Auckland cricketer, was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Now Zealand on Saturday morning, by Mr. Justice Stringer.

Alterations of tha boundaries of the Kairanga and Horowhenua Counties are gazetted.

Mr. J. B. Armit, of Wellington, has received cable intelligence of the death in London of his eldest brother, Mr. William Armit ; who for many years held the position of secretary to the old Hudson's Bay Company. On retiring from the company's service, the deceased gentleman started , business as an underwriter at Lloyd's, but through failing health for some years had led a retired life. His only son is Dr. Ar» mit, of Sydney. '

A statement was published in Thh Dominion yesterday to the effect that it was understood that the Government intended to appoint a successor to Mr. P. Hally as Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. Hally having been lately appointed chairman of the Board of Trade. Tho Minister of Labour .(the Right Hon. W. I'. Massey) said yesterday that the Government had no such intention, as it would be possible for Mr. Hally to discharge the duties of both offices.

During the voyage of tho R.M.S, Arawa. from London, a third-class passenger named Miss M. Kirk, of Giaborne, died of heart failure, while two others—Mr. R. Orkney, of England, who was on a hcalth-recruiting trio to New Zealand, and Mr. H. Silversicie, of Sydney—succumbed to heat apoplexy. All the bodies vere buried at sea.

Colonel Chaffey arrived in" town yesterday morning to spend a few days with "his brother. Mr. H. P. CHaffey. He is here on military duty inspecting some oT the troops.

Mr. Fred M'Leod, late conductor of the celebrated Ipswich City Band, ia on his way from Queensland to New Zealand to take charge of the City Kens' Band in' New Plymouth. He ia a native of New Zealand, and spent his earlier years in Oamaru.