PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 94, 15 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Francis Bell will return from Dunedin to-morrow morping. A number of the newly-elected members of Parliament were in town \c-s----terdav, among them Mr. 0. Hawkcn (Egmont), Mr. 11. D. Powdrell (Patea), ilr. D. Jones (K'aiapoi), ond Mr. R. i Bitchener (Waitaki). The appointment is announced of Dr. 1). S. Wylie, C.M.G., C.8.E., F.R.C.S., 1 to )>: Inspector of Hospitals under tho Public Health Department. Dr. Wylie served for a long period during the vnr, and • after making a special study of orthopaedic treatment in England returned to New Zealand to direct (hat hranch of the work, which was being ! inaugurated under the Defence Department for the benefit of returned men in the Dominion. Mr. W- W. Gibson, a member of the ' Wellingti.il Coal Tradj Committee, accompanied by Mr. Hoy S. Johnslon, secretary, will leave on nffic'nl business by the express this morning for Napier. Mr. E. L Hall, chairman of directors of the International Correspondence Schools, and Mr. It. P. Baker, secretary, nrrived in Wellington on Monday evening, after visiting Rotorua and the hot lakes district. These gentlemen are making a world lour, visiting all the branches of the schools in the overseas Dominions, with a view of extending widely the activities of the institution. They '. return to England, via Australia, Straits Settlements. India and Egypt, next week. . Mr. W. Wilson, 8.E., M.Se., A.M.1.E.E., late of Canterbury and Auckland university colleges, and now of the General Electric Company. Ilir--1 mingham, England, has been elected chairman of the council of the Society of Technical Engineers at Birmingham. The society includes trained members of the electric, mechanical and chemical sections of the engineering profession. Major Norman Lovien, who has been connected with the Army Ordnance Department of the N.Z.E.F. since its formation in Egypt, returned lo New Ze.v land by the Ruahinc. When tho last mail left Melbourne Mr. Rob. Thomas, proprietor of the English Pierrots, was confined to a hos- . pital recovering from ae, attack of gasi Iritis. i The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald arrived in Wellington yesterday after spending some time at Rotorua. where he went for a rest and health treatment. The death is announced from Devoid 6hire of Mr. George Randall Johnson, ■ M.A., J.P., late member of the New ' Zealand Legislative Council. Mr. Jolin- ' son, who settled in England many years ago and whoso age was' S(!. died at Feniton Court, Honilon. Ho Mas educated at Bury St. Edmunds and ;:t Claro College, Cambridge, and wait called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in r lBOl. Mr. W. G. Foster has retired from the Board of Directors of the Wellington Meat Export Compnny, and Mr. Charles Elgar, director, has been appointed its chairman. Mr, A. E. Kernot, of Wellington, who is abroad, and Mr. E. 11. Hilcy, lata General Manager of New Zealand Railways, who returned to England last year, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute. , Mr. Herbert Corrie, manager for tho C. and D. Line in Australia, arrived by tho Port Pirio yesterday. Tho Rev. D. C. Bates returned to Wellington by the Port Pirie yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Warren, of Napier, returned to Wellington by tho Port Pirio from Austtnlia yesterday. The Wellington Repatriation Board at its last meeting welcomed back Mr. M. J. Reardon, a member who has only recently returned from a trip to California. On the motion of the chairman (Mr. C. AVatson). the V'ctoria 'College Council last night passed a resolution of iegret at the death of Mr. C. B. M'orison, K.C., and sympathy with their deceased colleague's relatives. The chairman mado feeling reference to the late Mr. Morison's connection with the. University, ho having ,-nt for many years on tho council. At all tines he had proved himself to be a very earnest and enthusiastio member. Mr. E. J. Wilson, M.A., B.Sc, of the TJniversily of Perth, AA T .A., hiw been appointed lecturer in modern languages lo A r ictoria College. Mr. Wilson is a New Zcalander, and was educated at Canterbury College.