PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2736, 3 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister has. accepted an invitation to go to the W'airarapa dis-' trict on Tuesday to speak to' the local bodies and recruiting committees on the recruiting scheme. He will visit Featherston, ; Martinborough, Carterton, and Greytowu, and lie will also-address a public jneeting at Masterton.

A prirate cable message has been received from Mr. A. H. Miles (Messrs. Murray, Roberts, and Co.), who recent., ly left for Sydney for health reasons, that ho is now out of danger and on a fair way to recovery.

Judge Gilfedder received an' urgent message from Invercargill last week to say that his father was seriously ill. judge Gilfedder went south the same night, and he arrived shortly before his father's death. ,

Mr. ami Mrs. A. J. Stratford, of Auckland, aro at present in town, and staying at Barrett's Hotel.

Mr. Will., Douglas, general manager for tho Fuller Vaudeville Proprietary, who was at one time manager for the firm in Wellington, is to leave Sydney in a couple of months time on a business visit to America.

Mr. F. A. Hornibrook, son of the late Mr. H. G. Hornibrook, of Christchurch (who was an accomplished linguist and the possessor of a very'fine library), has presented the French colony at Noumea with 250 French' books, comprising historical, fiction, art, 6chool, reviews, etc. It will bo remembered that tho people of Noumea were very kind and hospitable to the New r Zealand Forces' proceeding to Samoa, and the gift is one that tho French colony will appreciate, coming from New Zealand. Air. Gordon Robertson, of Blenheim, has left for, England to join the Naval wing of the Flving Corps.

Mr. T. L. Barker, of the head office of the Government Life Insurance Office, has gone to Napier to take charge of tho branch office there during the absence on holiday leave of Mr. G. Noble-Campbell.

Mr. F. M. Scully, accountant ill the G.P.O; at Now Plymouth, who was elected to tho Public Service Appeal Board when that- body was constituted in 1913, is not seeking re-election this year.

Mr. C. T. i°ra?.er has been temporarilv transferred from Defence "Base Records Cilice to take the place of Mr. J. W. Collins, Chief Clerk of the Labour Department, who has been appointed secretary of the Board of Trade.

Mr. T. O'Brien, who has been manager of the Empress Theatre for some months, has been appointed to an important position in the head office of the New Zealand Picture Supplies, Ltd. On Friday night Mr; O'Brien was the recipient of a gold-mounted fountain pen from the Empress staff, and a handsmiio wallet from the "afternoon tea" girls,

Mr. Charles MacMahon .arrived from Auckland on Saturday night to make piepnrations for the film production in Wellington- of "Our British Navy" at Easter' tini» .

The result of an election to fill the vacancy in the Council of Education caused by the resignation of Mr. John. ~ Caughley, consequent upon liis appointment to be Assistant Director of Education, was announced yesterdaj'. Mr. Caughley, who previously sat as the member representing the male teachers of the South Islandi becomes, by virtue of his new appointment, an ex-officio member of tho council. The election has resulted in the return of Mr.. Thomas G. Foster, principal of tho Training College in Christclmrch, who ' polled 227 votes. The number of votes seemed by the other candidates was: Mr. Walter Eudey (Otago) 146; Mr. Horace It. Fisher (Marlborough), 26. Tin; total number of votes recorded waß 410, eleven of which were informal.