PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2808, 28 June 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the Governor, th» Countess of Liverpool, and a party from Government House will attend tills evening's presentation at the Grand Opera House of "Mother Goose." The audiencn will also include a number of returned wounded soldiers, who have been invited by J. C. Williamson, Ltd., to witness the pantomime.

The Wellington Education Board pass< ed the following motion yesterday regarding tho death of Lord Kitchener: "While this board desires to enter with heartfelt sincerity into the national mourning for the mighty soldier-statesman who has just left us, it rejoices that a life so full of tho noblest ideals of labour, of truth, honour, and duty has boon given to onr country, and that if dead ho yet lives among those patriot heroes of our country who have offered their lives with gladness, counting them as nothing n by the sacrifice they might transmit, not only unimpaired, but widened and deepened, our most precious heritage, the liberties of our Empire."

Dr. Paterson has been appointed'by the Government to be tho medical inspector for tho Wellington education district. Mr. A. N. Field, son of Mr. T. A. Field, M.P., and late of the literary staff of The Dominion, who left New Zealand as a private in the Ninth Ileinforoemeuts, has been wounded in the thigh,, and is at present in St. Thomas's Hospital. Private advice states that the wound is not considered dangerous.

Mr. J. C. Williamson, Chief Postmaster at Auckland, is at present visiting Wellington, making arrangements to shift his home to the northern city. He is to receivo a presentation from tho G.P.O headquarters staff to-day. An interesting event in the history of the activities of the Public Works Department at tho Featherston Military Camp took place last Thursday evening, when the whole of the men in camp met to do honour to the engineer in charge, Mr. A. Tyndall, on the occasion of his approaching marriage. Mr. S. E. James, Inspector or Works, presided. Mr. J, M'Dohald presented Mr. Tyndall, on behalf of the men in camp, with a marble clock, a set of carvers in solid oak case, a pair of military hair brushes in solid ebony, and a safety razor. In making the presentation Mr. M'Donald paid a high tribute to the genuine worth of the recipient, with whom the men had been in contact for many months during the operations connected with the construction of the military camp. Mr. James 'then handed to Mr. Tyndall a solid leather suit ease, as a token of esteem and good fellowship from the office staff, at the same time wishing the recipient long life and much happiness.

Sir Maurice O'Eorke has been granted leave of absence -from his legislative duties for the remainder of the session, on account of illness.

Mr. W. M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, has left London on his return tr> the Commonwealth.—Press Association.

A well-known resident of Rotorua, Mr. Charles William Grove, diod last Friday morning, at the age of 61 years, after a short illness. He had lived in Rotorua for about twelve years, having gone there from Palmerstou North, where he was engaged in farming.

The death occurred in Wellington Hospital yesterday morning of Mr. Goddard Jackson, printer and attendant at the Dominion Museum. The deceased, who was well over seventy years of age, was born in the South of England, and was apprenticed to the printing trade in the Old Country.

The latest nominees for seats on the Wellington Education Board (represent-, in" Wellington Ctj-) ore Messrs. R. A. Wright, JI.P., and A. H. Hindmarsh, M.P.

Reference to the death of Mr. Mow. bray, once headmaster of the Thorndon School, was made at the Education Board meeting yesterday, and the following resolution was agreed to:—"The board tenders to the relatives an expression of sympathy in the death of the late Mr Mowbray who, in the service of the board, aiul a?i a good citizen, discharged nia duties with fidelity and zeal, with much benefit to education and to the community at large."