PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 125, 20 February 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. T. It. Wilford, Minister of Justice, returned to Wellington yesterday. The Hons. Gritumond and Michel, and Messrs. Seddon and Holland, M.P.'s, have requested the Minister of Marino (the Hon. T. M. Wilford) to visit Greymouth at once in regard to Greyniouth Harliour Board matters. The Minister lias replied that he will get there if possible within the next fortnight.

The Acting-Prime Minister, Sir James Allen, will officiate at the opening performance of the Chautauqua in Wellington on Saturday, March 1.

Yesterday the Wellington Education Board placed oil record its appreciation of the long and valuable services of Mr. H. A. Parkinson, M.A., who has resigned the headmastership of the Newtown School in order to become permanent secretary of the New Zealand Educational institute.

Mr. Kenneth Carlisle, the well-known actor associated with the Allen Doone Company, will leave Wellington hy the Mararoa to-night to join the J. C. Williamson "Potash and Perlmutter"' Company, which opens in Christchurch next week. o

Mr. Thomas Forsyth, chairman of the Wellington Education Board, has returned from a visit to Christchurch and Dunetlin. .

The Ven. Archdeacon Devoy left for the south by the Maori last evening to attcid the laying of the foundationstone of St. Bede's College, Christchurch, on Sunday next. Archbishop Redwood, who is duo at Auckland to-day from Sydney, will officiate at the ceremony.

The City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton) has arranged to leave New' Zealand for America and England by the Niagara, sailing about March 28. Mrs. Morton wilj pot accompany her husband, as she wishes to be here when her son, who is on active service, returns to Wellington. The latter left England for Wellington on January 18.

Sergeant F. .Matthews, formerly private secretary to the Minister of Defence, is on board the Ruapehu, due to arrive hero to-day from England.

Captain Ronald Gray, R.F.A., youngest son of the late William Gray, 1.5.0., of Welliugton, is returning to New Zealand. on one month's furlough, by the troopship Ruapehu, due to arrive hero next Thursday. Captain Gray at tho outbreak of war was attached to King Edward's Horse, and received a commission in the R.F.A. early in 1915. He was wounded at Ypres, and on his return to the field accompanied his battery to Macedonia, where he was stationed at the time© of the signing of the armistice. Captain Gray, who Tias been away from Wellington about 6ix or seven years, was studying electrical engineering, and qualiiiei- st the City and Guild's Engineering Coiioge, London, just prior io the outbreak or war.

Mr. L. F. Ayson,' Chic-f Inspector of Fisheries, lias gone to Auckland to. attend the sittings of the Trawling Commission.

A Press Association telegram states:— The death is announced of Captain Tucker, one of the oldest residents of Gisborne and a former M.L.C. He arrived at Gisborne in 18GB, and participated in the Maori War. He held extensive landed interests. He was twice Mayor of Gisborne, and chairman of various local bodies. The 'ate Captain Tucker was for some years lessee of the Campbell Islands, on which, he ran sheep.

Mr. A. Daniel, retiring manager of the Civil Service Club, was presented with a purse of sovereigns at the club on Tuesday evening as « token of appreciation of his services. In making tho presentation, Mr. C. G. Wilson, chairman of the cluib, paid a" high testimony , to the capabilities of Mr. Daniel, and expressed the regret of members at parting with him. He wished him every uiccess in his new venture. Mr. Daniel is leaving Wellington for Blenheim, where lie is going fntn business on his own account. Mr W Pr'yor, secretary of the Employers' Federation, returned yesterday from Auckland.

Mr. W. E. 11. Knowlos, of Messrs. Hutchi'soa, Wilson, and Co., Wellington, in revisiting Napier, after an absence of oO years. Ho has been serving as engineer-lieutenant in the Naval Transport Service, and was al» engaged on hospital shins and mine-sweepers in the British Channel until his health broke down and he returned to the Dominion,

The condition of the Hon. Gilbert Carson. who has been seriously ill for some 'months, is causing .his friends considerable anxiety.