PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 143, 12 March 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. In view of the fact that both the Imperial and New Zealand Governments are anxious that the Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool should visit Samoa and the Cook Islands this venv, Their Excellencies proposed to proceed thither about the middle of May, states a Press Association message from Ghristchurch. Owing, however, to the possibility of peace being proclaim?} Jarly in May/ Their Excellencies will delay their departure as long as possible as they are anxious to ehare m the universal'rejoicings which will take placo in the Dominion; but keeping in viow the opening of Parliament and the arrival tof the battlo-cruiser New Zealand it is essential that their departure should not be indefinitely postponed, as in nil probability His Excellency will terminate his extended term of oflice: in the lato New Zealand autumn or IJiffl. Their Excellencies Imve made the iolowin* plans i—leave for Dunedin March 21; arrive Wellington, March 26. Leave for Kotonm April i. Leave Kotoruft .for Auckland April 19. Tour the Pacific, islands May and June. Pay farewell visits to' the chief districts of the North Island between- July and the end of tho year, and then proceed to do the same in the South Wand.

The Hon. W. H. llerries is returning from the north to-morrow. His Worship the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) arrived from Nelson yesterday morning, and at once resumed his Mayoral duties at the Town Hall. Colonel D. M'Gavin, JJ.S.O, N.Z.M.C., is coining out to New Maud to take tho position of Director-General ot Medical Services. For the present he arrangement is that ho shall tuko tho position temporarily, because lie does not wish to commit himself to a permanent position with tho Defence Department. Private adviaes which hare reached Sydnqy report tho death in London from influenza of Jlajov Oliver Hoguc, journalist, widely known as "Trooper Bluegum."—Press Assn, \ Press .Association cablegram from Sydney status that Alderman lv. A\. ltieliarels lias been elected Lord Mayor. Mr \. J. 'Kossilw, receiver of land revenue, New Plymouth, left Wellington on JTiiirli 10 to take up his diilics «s thiol- cleric, receiver of land revenue Hokitika, and secretary to the Wetland Laud Board. Mr. B. H. BTTis, of I he firm of Messrs. Ellis and lianton, is ft passenger on tho iloeraki for Sydney. Messrs. J. W. G. Brodie and J. C. Peacocke, of Wellington, left for Sydney yesterday by tho Moeraki. Our Maet'erton correspondent telegi'aphs that Mr. Thomas G. Gilbert has been appointed manager of tho Public Trust Ofh'co at Masterton.

Lieutenant A. 0. Ponder, Rhodes! Scholar, has returned to Chnstehurch (states tho "Sim"). Lieutenant Ponder went away with the Bide Brigade, and niter Boeing, eervico in Egypt and Franco ho gnined liis commission. Lieuioiiant Ponder will leave for Oxford University in August, and in the meantime ho will do research work at Canterbury College. Mr. D. J. B. Seymour, general secretary of Iho New Zealand Keturned Scldiers' Association, hns returned to Wellington alter a visit to Auckland. Mr. Seymour has Ijccn devoting u part of his lime to the consideration 'of repatriation ■problems. The Her. J. A. Brown and Mrs. Brown, of Kinveo, Canterbury, aro at present in Wellington. Dr. f'niizoiiP, accompanied by his wife, left Wellington yesterday for Auckland, en route to Sydney. Captain Tilley, formerly in charge of farm work at Featherston Camp, has been appointed manager of the Soldiers Training Farm at Taratahi.