PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2724, 20 March 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime lUinistor, left for Auckland last night.

The Hon. Sir Francis Bell returned to Wellington on Saturday, after conducting a successful recruiting tour through tho North Auckland district.

Tho Hon. Dr. M'Nab sets out from 'Auckland to-day to inspect the lower reaches of the Waikato Eivor, with the object of collecting information as to the extent to which this great river is navigable. He returns to Wellington on Wednesday.

The Hon. TV. D. S. Mac Donald is in Christchurch to-day. He goes overland to Hokitika to-morrow' to attend the A. and P. show there.

His Honour Mr. Justice Cooper-arriv-ed from Auckland by the Main Trunk express yesterday morning.

Dr. Cleary (Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland) intends to leave Auckland to-morrow, accompanied by Father P. S. Kehoe. During Bishop Cleary's absence the Auckland diocese will be in charge of Monsignor Mahoney.of OneDr. Cleary will visit Honolulu, Sari Frauoisco, Now York, the British Isles, and hopes to reach Rome about next June. • .

Capt. J. D. Grant, V.C., of the 18th Ghurka Rifles, who was wounded in tbe Mesopotamia campaign, was staff officer in Otago for some years, and returned to India shortly before the outbreak of tbe war. . ■_

■ An old settler of the Pahiatua district, Mr. Pultrick ,Scanlon Mulcahy, died at the J/ahrst'Sa r <~ ...

on Wednesday! The deceased, who was aged 63.years, lived at Ngawapura (between Paluatua and Woodyille)'. Previous to engaging in farming he was oonnected with tho railway service. He leaves a. wife and family, two sons being at the front. v

Mr. and Mrs. H. Coles, of Palmerstonj' left on Friday on «m extended visit to Amerioa, probably lasting till the end of the year.

?Jr. W. G. Harwood, lately on the teaching Gfcaff of Campbell Street School (Palmerston) left last week for Gisborue, where he has received an appointment on the High School staff there.

Senior Sergeant Emmerson, who has been transferred from Ashtmrton to Wellington, takes up duty at the Lambton Quay. Police Station to-day.

Private advice has been received in Christchurch that Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Charters has been appointed to the command of Jhe Otago Infantry Battalion, "at the front." Colonel Charters did good work as base commandant in Egypt, and his services as such were recognised by his being mentioned in dispatches. He is a son of Mr. W. W. Charters, of Messrs. Kinsey and Co., shipping agents, of Christchurch, and.when he joined the Second Reinforcements he was an inspector under the Wellington Education Board. \

• "TSe high cost of rent," observed Mr. Justice Stringnr, in Auckland* apropos of a witness's evidence in support of builders' claims, "is largely due to the high cost of building, and you want to make building more 'costly by increasing the rato of wages."