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PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Prime Minister is now in his own ftome, vhero lie celebrated his sixtyfourth birthday yesterday, lie 'will require to stay away.from his office for at least ai-f'tiier'wi??k, but in the meantime he will be able to attend to some public business. ' The Minister of Agriculture'(lion. AV. Nosworthy) is still in. the South Island, and is not expected lo return io AVel■iiijgton for about a week. ,'Tto Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout, returned from yesterday, and Mr. Justice Hosking is expected to return to Wellington to-day from Napier. A special telegram _ received by The Dominion from Christchurch last night stated that. Mr. Y.'ctor Beck had received a cablegram 1 announcing the death at 'Melbourne yesterday or Mr. !Rob Thomas, of the tirm of Will and Rob Thomas, the pioneers of the English Pierrots. The late Mr. Hob/Thomas wauwell known in the North island, where the English Pierrots have been frequent visitors for some ten years. He had been in ill-health for some lime past. - Mr. H. Horton has been granted six months' leave of absence by the Auckland Patriotic Association in order to visit Great Britain. \ The Chief Forestry Officer, Captain Ellis, has gone to Auckland, where he will inspect the kauri areas. Advice has been received from London 'hat Mr. Wilfrid Skegg has been apuaiuted assistant manager at Wellington of the Allinnoo Assurance Compaiy, ltd. Air. Skegg has served his company for jiearlv twenty years, and has taken considerable interest in local affairs, serving six years on tlm Ivarori Borough Council, being defeated by 24 votes at last election in ids cand'-dature for the Mayoralty. He has also served a number of years oil the ICarori School Committee, and t is a churchwarden .of St. Mary's Anglnan Church. : For the .past year Mr. Thomas Balliii,"er has been chairman ol' the_ Finance Committee of Hid Greater AYellingirr.i Tov.-ii Piaiining. Association, but lie ha* had to resign acting 011 medical advice. Ilis resignation c-ame 'bei'oi'i the oonimiltc! at its last meeting, ami milch regret was expressed at Mr. Ballinger's ill*, health and the 'loss of his set nee.?. Jr . was resolved to place 011 record ill'. Bal* linker's valuable work fur the c«cclaWon. • Captain M'lntosii Ellis and Air. Phillips Turner, .director and Secretary resp/ctivelv of the Forestry Department, left Wellington yesterday for the purpose of making an inspection of_ native forests, and plantations in the North Is.anu. They will go to Eotorua first,'and after visiting Auckland and Darg.iville will inspect some of the forests in J lie AAaimarino,district, returning to Welliugton about' April 18. Mr. Prank AVilson, the leading baritone with one of the Williamson GilbertSullivan repertory opera companies, has sottledMn Auckland as a. teacher of singing and stage work generally. The death took place recently of one of • Hawke's Bay's best-known settlers, Mr. Michael Edward Groome, J.P., ior man,\ years owner of the To Onepu station, near Te Ante, which is now occupied by liis son. Mr. Groome took a .keen interest in public affairs, and for a number of vents he was secretary of. the Hawkes Bay Hunt Club. He ictired from slieepfarming a short time ago owing to failing health. -,fr, J. V. Han»a, late physical director of the Y.M'.C.A., Auckland, has been appointed full-time director of physical work at the Y.M.C.A., Diinedin. Mr. AY. T. Ileggctt, gaoler for the Invercargill Borstal Institution, has been transferred to the AVaikoria Reformatory for Men as deputy superintendent, jit w understood that iTr. Bathgate, or the Education Department, AVollington, will go to Jnvercargill as deputy-superintend-ent. . Mr. C. T>. Smith, the general manager for New Zealand of (he Alliance Assur-ance-Company, intends to leave shortly ' 011 an extended holiday in California. Air. Smith's health has been 1110 cause of great anxiety to his friends for some time past, but it is hoped that, a ion" rest, aiid absence of business worry will affect a cure. He will be accomriained by Mrs. Smith. During Mr. Smith's absence the company's affairs at AVollington will bo controlled ljy Mr. AV. Skegg.

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 156, 27 March 1920, Page 6

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PERSONAL ITEMS. Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 156, 27 March 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS. Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 156, 27 March 1920, Page 6

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