PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2850, 15 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tlie Prime Minister (tlie Eight Hon. W. F. opened tho now Panmure traffic bridge yesterday. He will return to Wellington by to-night's oxPress. —(Press Association.)

Tho Hon. J. Allen is in Dunedin. He intends to stay thore for the whole or the weok in order to see the parade of tho Sixteenth Itoinforccments there on Inday.

Tlie Hon. AV. Frasor wont south to Uhnstchurch by tho ferry steamer last night.

file Hon. Nathan Ricks, United States Senator, representing Idaho State, was a pasenger from San Francisco to "Wellington by the Moana.

Captain Donald Simson, who lor a year past has identified himself closely •with the well-being of returned soldiers, and by whose energies a Dominion Returned Soldiers' Association has been formed) and a score of club's established throughout New Zealand, -will leave for England on September 22. He will travel to the Old Country' via Scmth Africa, and will take advantago of tho time tho steamer is at Durban and travelling to Cape Town to visit Johannesburg, of which city he is a councillor. On arriving in England, Captain Simson will rejoin the King Edward Horse. *

• Mr. A'. W. Gordon, the first New Zealander to get a nying certificate from Messrs! #elsh Brothers' Aviation Softool at Auckland, was in Wellington on his way south yesterday. Hb intends to leave tho Dominion shortly for England, whoro he will join the Royal "Plying Corps, and Toeeive his final training before being sent ,on to tho front. It is probable that ho will mako, a flight in Christchurch before leaving.

Mr. George GT. Rose, of tho Post and Telegraph Department, was admitted bv tho Chief Justice as a solicitor of tno Supreme Court yesterday.

Mr. J. L. Young, head of the firm of Messrs. S. R. Maxwell and Co., Ltd., of Papeete, was a passenger T»y tho Moana, which arrivea in Wellington yesterday morning. Mrs. Young accompanies her husband.

Mr. P. W. Rowley, Secretory for Labour, is at present making an inspection of the Labour Department branches at Palmerston, Wangamu, and New Plymouth.

Dr. Sandston, of Christciiurch, who left New Zealand last year, to' join the R.A.M.C., returned to Wellington yesterday by the Moana, having travelled from England via America.

Mr. J. Connel, of. the Waingawa Freezing Works, lias been appointed manager .of the New Plymouth. Freezing Works.

Mr. Isaac Sykes, of Wellington;, has been elected an honorary life member of tho Masterton A. and P. Association in recognition of the valuable services he has rendered' the association over a long period of years.

JLieut. C. F. Jellie, of the Masterton Territorials, has enlisted for service abroad.

The late Mr. Arthur B. Sidford, whose death was recorded on Saturday, at the ago of 65, was a well-known figure in the business life of Wellington. He was at one time in business at Dunedin, and subsequently for twenty-one years he was in the employ ot the D.I.C. in Wellington. He -leaves a family of three sons—Messrs. George Sidford, in the employ of Messrs. W. and T. Young; Mr. Arthur Sidford, of' the Post and Telegraph Department; and Mr. Charles Sidford, of;.the-Wel-lington Harbour Board staff. His wife predeceased liim five months ago.

According to the latest papers from Hbme, Mr. H. B. G. Larkin has been appointed general manager of the Commonwealth Government's line Of steamers. A writer in_ "Tho Financier" says:—'-'Mr. Larkin's knowledge of Australian shipping is considerable. I learned that he had been in this country (England) .since. December, 1914, whan he was appointed to look after the work in connection with the Australian transports, on this side. Still on the sunny side of 40, I should say, although it is often difficult to tell the age of a clean-shaven man. Mr. Larkin went to Australia as a young man, and has been connected with shipping there for twenty-six years, first in the A.U.S.N. line and afterwards in the' British-India Company, who lent him to the Commonwealth Government when war broke out to superintend tho dispatch of 7 the transports from Australia." The members of the "Mother Goose" Pantomime Company will leave Wellington for Sydney by the Riverina on. Thursday next. The manager of that company, Mr. John Farrell, will remain behind to manage "The Birth of a Nation" picture tour of New Zealand. The members of the Tivoli Follies Company left for Dunedin last.evening. -