PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 251, 17 July 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. The Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool nnd party—who are returning from the Islands 'by the Tutanekai— are journeying direct to' Gisborne, and hope to arrive at that port next Tuesday. The vice-regal party hope to be able to visit Napier on the following day, and roach Wellington on .Inly 24. His Kxcellency, who will make his visit to Gisborne and Napier a farewell to the citizens of those places, had intended going direct from Fiji to Auckland and coming on to Wellington by train, but ha? decided to alter his arrangements owing to the railway cut. A wireless message received in Wellington yesterday by Mr. Gavin Hamilton, the GovernorGeneral's private secretary, states that the Tutanekai is meeling with adverse weather.

The Hon. Arthur M. Myers intended leaving for Auckland to attend the peace celebrations there at the end of tho week, but his duties as Minister in Charge of Coal Distribution, in view of the p-.esent position of affairs in this connection, necessitated his remaining in Wellington. The many friends here of Mr. James Macintosh, of Messrs, Wright, Stephenson, and Co., will regret to learn that he has found it necessary to undergo treatment nt a private hospital in' Sydney. Information received hero regarding his condition of health is far from reassur. ing. A Press Association message received from Christchurch last night, stated that Mr. T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., who has filled the position of stipendiary magistrate at Christchurch for the past ten years,' is being removed to New Plymouth, viet Mr. Crooke, resigned. Mr. Daitey wih leave Christchurch in about six weekstime. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch records the death of Mr. Danvers' Hamber, well known in racing circles, and for several years editor of the "Referee." Mr. A. B. Gosland, manager in Bristol for the Bristol and Dominions Producers' Association, who is visiting New Zealand, leaves for England by. the Ruahine on August o. A Press Association telegram from Palmerston North states that Mr. J. R. Hughes, of Wellington, recently assistant engineer to the Dumferline' County Council, Scotland, has been appointed engineer to the Palmerston North Borough Council. Mr. H. S. Baldwin, late chief engineer of tho Wairoa Freezing Works, has been appointed an inspector of machinery, surveyor of ships, and examiner of engineers, at Wellington. Mr. Baldwin was formerly chief engineer of the Union Company's Wnnaka, Piiikaki, a.nd Tnlune. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Arthur G. Laurenson, officer in charge of the returned soldiers' branch of the War Expenses Department, was presented with an illuminated address on the eve of his transfer to the coal trade branch of ths Munitions Department. The address was signed by the whole of the members of the staff. Mr. G. C. Rodda, in making the presentation, referred to the loss the Department was suffering through Mr. Laurenson's transfer.. He had served with them for four years and a half, nnd his departure would b3 regretted by all. Mr. Rodda wished Mr. Laurenson success in tho Department to which h& had been transferred. Mr. S. E. Aldwincklo reiterated Mr. Rodda's remarks, and Mr. Laurenson suitably replied. A presentation of some silver-plate for Mrs. Laurenson was also made. Mr. Hadley d'Oyly, of Wellington, is a passenger tor Australia by the Kigoma, which is to sail this morning. Ho expects to be away for about three months. Commenting on the departure from Dunedin of the Rev. R. S. Gray, tho "Otago Daily Times" remarks:—"Differing, as we do, from the Rev. R. S. Gray upon the politico-social issue in connection with which his name may be said to be a household word throughout New Zealand we join none tho less cordially in the expressions of good-will that havo been addressed lo him on the ovo Of his departure from Dunedin. During his residence in this city Mr. Gray hn* been one of our most prominent public men. Ho is a man of a type that will always be prominent wherever it is found. Tho intense earnestness with which he espouses a cause whenever he has satisfied himself that it is a cause that merits his help and tho gift of burning oloquonco with which he has been endowed make him a force that must be seriously reckoned with. And this community cannot but remember with gratitude the readiness with which ho responded to the caWs of patriotism during tho recent war and exercised his powers of oratory in denunciation of tho wrongs that were committed by Germany and in appeals to the public for support, prompt and liberal —support both in men and in money—for the effort of tho Allied nations to resist the presumptuous claims of the enemy nations,, Mr. Gray performed yeoman service in those days, and spared himself as Jittle as anyono else did in the devotion with which ho threw himself into tho movements for the promotion of the war activities of tho Dominion."