PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3143, 23 July 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Joseph Ward left for Ihe south by the ferry steamer on Saturday. The Hon. D. Bnddo returned fiom Cfiristchurch yesterday morning. Messrs. Dalgety and Company have received cabled advice from their head office in London that Mr. Arthur P. Blake has resigned his seat on the company's board of directors owing to failing'health. The Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley has been elected to fill the vacancy. Mr. .T. P. Dugdale, for a number of rears connected with the Valuation of 'Land and Income Tax Departments is an inmate of the Bowen Street Hospital. His condition has been causing his friends much anxiety, but last night he was reported to be better. In the Committee set up in the House' of ■Representatives to investigate the operations of the Meat Trust the name of fflr .Tohn Findlav wns vTongly inserted instead of Mr. W. H. Field. Lieutenant G. R, Park, wlio has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery at Messines, was tho younger son of the late Mr. R. G. Park, of Blenheim. Lieutenant Park, like Captain C. W. Free, M.C., is an old boy of the Robin Hood Bay School. At the Normal SchooJ on Saturday night, the Wellington school uachers now in%amp were entertained at a farewell social bv the Wellington Public Schools' Assistant-Masters' Association. Tn proposi'm? the toast of the soldiers, the president of the association. Mr. .T. C. Burns, expressed the keen satisfaction that members felt at the splendid response teachers throughout the Dominion had made to the Empire's pnll. Thejwere especially proud of the response made and the part played by Wellington assistant-masters. Lieutenant .T. Trainer nnd Corpls. Bcn=lny (Auckland) end .T. Fanning responded. During :he evening musical and other items were rendered l>v Corpls. F. Procker, C. Robertson, P M. Jackson, -nnd Messrs. H. Miller. W. B. Brown, F. Hompleman, B. T. Blake, and Kirk. Deep regret was expressed at the death of Sergeant S. W. Dempsev, who.durin? his long term as assistant at Clyde Onay School, had been closely associated with i'll forms of school sport.