PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 46, 18 November 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Primo Minister returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday. Mr. Massoy will remain in Wellington for a few days. Maior-Geueral Sir Edward Chaytor, who has been in command of the Australasian Mounted Division in Palestine uractically since tho beginning of tho offensive which beat tho Turk in that nart of his Empire, returned to Auckland on Saturday, and came down to Palmcrston yesterday. He was welcomed at the station by the Mayor, the member for the district, and a representative crowu' of tho townspeople. Advice has been received by cable messngo of the death in London of Mr. J. W.. Joynt, M.A., for many years Registrar of the University of New Zealand ulitil his retirement in 1910, when he became tho agent of the university in London. The iate Mr. Joynt, who was unmarried, was born in County WickloWj Ireland, in 1852, and educated at Kilkenny and Dublin University. Ho entered Trinity College in 1873, was elected to a foundation scholarship in 1875, and took, his degree with double first-class honours in classics and mental science in li-7.7. Ho won a Fellowship prize in 1871), mid go-ld medals , of tho College Historical mid Philosophical Societies. He graduated M.A. in 18S0. Ho camo to New Zealand in 1886, on grounds of health,and was Principal of Nelson Collego from 1889 to 1898, being appointed Registrar of the University of New Zealand in 1899. The lato Mr. .Toyut was much respected in the wido circle of his acquaintance. Mr. John W. Milne, general manager of the Taranaki Farmers' Meat Company, Ltd., has been appointed general manager of tho Wellington Meat Export Company. Ltd., in succession to Mr. W. G. Poster, who has retired. Mr.'Milne was for Eome years secretary to tho Wningawa Freezing •_ Company, and he has occupied the position with the Taranaki Farmers' Meat Co., Ltd., in New Plymouth for the past two years. Ho is well known among the farmers of the Wairarapa and tho business comnrunitv of Wellington. Mr. Milne will ass-unio his new duties at this lxJginning of next year. Mr. D. C. Bales, Government Meteorologist, accompanied by Mrs. Bates, loft England on Friday Inst by the Port l'irie. The.yv.aro returning via Suez. The denth is reported at Melbourne of Mr. Sal.i Clevo, who arrived in- Australia in tho oarly fifties with 50,000 sovereigns, na tho representative of the lato Baion Rothschild. He established the firm of Cleve Brothers, which also carried on-•'business in London and Dunedin. Ho subsequently became well known as a mercantile broker in Melbourne. Ho was in his 89th year. , Mr. Ii M.Dixon, of Christchurch, has been appointed organiser for the Wellington district for tho Returned Soldiers'. Association, states a Press Association message from Palmerston North. Mr. G. M. Henderson, SLA., head teacher of the Ohau School, has received tho appointment of Inspector of Native Schools under the Education Department, and will take up his new duties after tho school holidays. Mr. Henderson's new nosition will give him ample opportuiiilv to exercise those powers of constructive administration with which ho is so ainulv endowed; and the sympathetic studv of tho Native . race ano: Nativo problems which has been one of his hobbies during hk residence in Ohau should boar fruit in his handling of their education svstem. Jlr. Henderson was tutor in industrial history to Iho Workers' Educational Association last year in Levin, and this year in Foxton. Mr. Frank Moffett, of Invercargill, who has been ailing-for some months, died at Invercargill on Thursday .night. Mr. Molfett v was well known in sporting circles throughout tho South Wand. 4. presentation from the New Zealand staff was made to Mr.'R. B. Smith, retiring inspector of the Bank of Australasia for New Zealand. Mr. Butt, manager of the Wellington branch, mado tho presentation, remarking that its intrinsic value was not to be taken as an indication of the great. respect and genuine affection in which Mr. Smith was held by the whole of the New Zealand staff 'of the Bank of Australasia. Mr. Smith made a suitable reply. He has been connected with tho "bank eince 1873. joining in • Dunedin. He remained in New "Zealand all the time of hie long service. 46 years. Mr. Smith intends visiting tho Old Country at nn early date.