PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 85, 5 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (Bight JTo-*. W. F. Miissrv), who has been in the Auckland district since before Christmas, will return lo Wellington early this week. Th? Minister of Defence (Sir .Tames Allen) is still in the south, lie is expected to return to Wellington early (his week. The Bishop of Wellington (Right Rev. Dr. Sproll) has pone lo Dunediu for Hie consecration ol Archdeacon Richards, of Invcrcargill, to the Dunedin Bishopric to-morrow, lie will return to Wellington on Thursday. Dr. Truby King, accompanied by .Mrs. Trubv King and daughter, arrived m Wellington bv Hie Moeraki from Sydney yesterday. Dr. Trilby King has been engaged in tiie United Kingdom for some timo on woik connected with child welfa re. Mr. J. AY". M'Ewan (Mayor of Potone), who has beer, on a visit to Nelson, will return to-'.iay. Sir George Fenwiek, managing director of the "Otago Dailv Times." and 'Mr. Robert' Dell, managing director of the "J.yllclton Times," arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday. •V Press Association cablegram from London, received yesterday, announces that Sir Charles Ci. Wade, who has accepted a Judgeship of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, sails for Australia by tho Osterly. Prior lo leaving Wellington, after representing the Kaiapoi Woollen Company in Nelson and on the West Coast, llr.' George Bush was entertained by the commercial travellers, when ho was eulogised for the fine work ho had done patriotically. A Idler was handed him, suitably expressing the sentiments oi Mr Bush's traveller friends, which letter was to bo engrossed and forwarded to him with a photograph of every traveller concerned. Last week Mr. Bush was presented bv the Mayor of Nelson (Mr. Snodgrass), on behalf of the citizens, with a purse of fifty fovereigns and an illuminated address. Mr. Bush is leaving Nelson lo enlcr into partnership in Auckland with Mr. .1. C. Thompson, of that city. The Rev. Mr. Parry, who has accepted the pastorate ol the Baptist Church, Buiek Street, Petoue, will commence his ministry on Sunday next.

Mr. .lotui Roddick, of fli/borne. is rctiriliß from llio staff of tlic Lands and Survey Department after many years of bo nice. Air. IL D. Foi's.yl)!), chairman of the Elll'iam Hairy Company, who lias been visiting Europe and Auierieii in connection with the Tarnnaki dairying industry and the dried milk proposals, is retu'rninK on I lie Kigoma, due lo reach Wellington in a few days. He is accompanied by -Mr. R. Boyle, manager of the Klthani r'aclovy. Mr. W. J. It. Simpson, head auctioneer for the Asliburtnn branch of tho National Mortgage, and Agency Companv, has been pro-xoted to (ho position* of manager of the company's Gore liranch, and is expected to lcavo fcr Gore about the end of tho present .'llOlltll. The death occurred at Cambridge c;rly on Wednesday morning of Mr. William Qualtroiigh, one of the oldest and most respcrlcd residents of the Waikato. Tho late Mr. Quail rough was 7fl years of age. Ho arrived in New Zealand with his parents when a boy, and settled with them at, the Tamaki, near Auckland. In (he carlv 'sixties, just after the Maori War ho' went to reside at Kilukihi, and aflenvnrds took up a,farm at Orakan, near the confiscated line, where ho remained for irianv years. About 18 years ago he purchased part of tho homestead of the Fencourt Estate, near Cambridge, a portion of whicli ho owned at tho time of his death.

Police-Sergeant Trolley, of New Plymo utli. who lias been on sick leave ever, since Iho epidemic of last year, was medically examined recently, and as a result has'been declared unfit for service. lie therefore retired from the force as from December 31.