PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 177, 22 April 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prinio Minister (Mr. Massey) will leave for Auckland to-day. The Hon. C. ,T. Parr will travel with him. The Hon. W. Noswortlvy has already gone to Auckland. Major-General Sir Edward Chaytor (General Officer Commanding the Now Zealand Military Forces), Brigadier-Gen-eral G. S. Richardson (General Officer in pharge of Administration), and lieuten-ant-Colonel J. L. Sleeman (Director of Military Training) left "Wellington for Auckland yesterday to meet His Roynl Richness the Prince of Wales. Mr. Arthur Hoby left Wellington by the Suffolk yesterday for New York and Philadelphia, where ho intends to spend some tinie visiting the dental universities. Later ho will proceed to England to visit his son, Dr. H. Hoby, and will be absent from New Zealand for about six months. Mr. Kenneth Hoby is also making tho trip. Surgeon-Captain Owen Evans, son of Mr. Robert Evans, of Otane, with his w;ife and family, have hooked passages to New Zealand by tho s.s. Arawa, which is expected to leave London early in May. Dr. Evans, who is an ex-pupil of the Napier Boys' High School, and who studied medicine at t'i> Gtago and Edinburgh Universities, has been in tho Old Country about eight years. During tho war he was in the Imperial! Army, and saw service in Palestine, going there caily in the war, and rising to the rank o'f captain ■Having been ordered a rest, Mr. P. Salig (general manager of the' Christchurch "Press" Company), loaves by the Corinthio.on April 30 for London, via Panama. Having been selected as one of New Zealand delegates to the Imperiol Press Conference at Ottawa,, Mr. Selig will cross from England to Canada with the British delegates, who will include Lord NorthcHft'e lard Biivnlum, n:ijl other leading lights of the Press of Bri-tain.—-Press Assn. Mr. A. J. Paterson, assistant city engineer, returned yesterday from a visit to the north of Auckland, and left for the south last evening. Mr. T. Woodruff, accountant at tho Bank of Australasia, Wellington, is visiting Peilding.

Tho death occurred on Tuesday night of Mr. Henry Hewitt, a resident of Wellington for almost half a century. The deceased was ft native of Plymouth, England, 'and was 72 years of ago. Ho yient some of his younger days at sea, being chielly employed in vessels trading on the English coast. Forty-two years ago he came to New Zealand, and settled in Wellington. Ha entered the seivice of the City Council thirty years ago, and remained on tho staff until his death. Last Friday he had an nttaok of pleurisy, and ho died at his residence in Austin Street on Tuostlny night, Ho has left a widow and also a son (Mr. Frank Hewitt, of the Wellington Harbour Board 6taff). Ho was an officebearer of the Cambridgo Terrace Congregational Church, and a very successful amateur gardener. Captain S. N. Ziman (tho first Rhodes scholar from Auckland) leaves by tho Niagara for Australia, on his way to London prior to returning to India. Captain'Ziman is making a report for thj Government of Bombay Presidency on several matters in connection with his jurisdiction, more particularly local government, town-planning, and education. The Prime Minister aided Captain Ziman to get this information through heads of departments affording access to statistical returns. Captain Ziman proposes to collect further data in Australia. The death is announced of Mr. William George Rankin, of lnglewood Farm, Southland, who was known throughout Australasia as a brooder of Ayrshire cattle. ' 6 Thews died at Invercargill on Sunday, a New Zealand writer on matters pastoral in tho person of Mr. John Ross Maedonald, of tho Lands and Survey Offico Mr. Maedonald some time back produced a book on "Sheepfarming in New Zealand." Shortly prior to his death ho l.ad arranged for tho publication of a book entitled "Shcopfarming in Australia and New Zealand." This book ia now in tho press. Mr. Maedonald had a considerable length of sorvico in his particular department. At yesterday's meeting of tho Wellington Education Board the following resignations of teachers wore accopted with regret: Mr. E. J. Dyer, Kaiuma; Miss E. Williams, Ilutt D.H.S.; Miss P. If. Moore, French Passj Miss Turner, . Bnlwer; Miss E. M. Black, ParaparDtnu; Mr. W. Black, Maiiricevillo West; Miss G. M. Hammond, Mount Cook Infants; Mr. D. D. Anderson, Tua Marina; Mrs. J. B. Melton, Martinborough; Miss E. M. Cooper, Pukonui; Mi6s M. M. Harris, Picton; Mr. F. G. Carson, Bideford; Miss L. A. Hood, Ruata; Miss E. Ongloy, Hutt D.H.S.