PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 197, 15 May 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

ViCE-REGAL. His Excellency the Governor-General and three jn'ciubers of V' le Prince of Wales's slatf (Captain Dudley North, Lord Claud Hamilton, and Lord Louis Monntbatten), who left for the Wai rant pa on Monday, and spent several days deur-sialking oil Mr. William Barton s While Jtock station, returned to Wellington on Thursday night. On Monday Thc:'!r Excellencies tho Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool will leave Wellington lor Christehurch in order to take_ farewell of the Prince of Wales, when /lis Royal Highness embarks on the Renown at Lyttelton next Friday on his way to Australia. ' The funeral of tiie late Mr. W. J. Birch, of Marton, took place yesterday from St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral. The cortege included Mr. Caccia Birch, sou of tho deceased, General Sir Andrew Russell. Mr. A. G. Russell, Mr. A. Russell, Mr. A. Leigh Hunt (rejiresentinft; tile Dominion Farmers' Institute), Mr. E. C. Jack (representing the New Zealand Farmers' Union, New Zfit.'jnd Council of Agriculture, and Manawatu A. and P. Association), Mr. S. E. Lambert (representing (he New Zealand Farmers' (Jo-op. Distributing Company), Mr. W. Ferguson. and othw friends. Floral 'wreaths froai the Marton branch of the Wellington Provincial Executive and Dominion Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, the Manawatu A. and P. Association. Farmers' Institute, Fanners' Distributing Company, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Marshall (of Marton) were sent as tributes of respect to the memory of the deceased. Short services were conducted in. the cathedral and the crematorium by Bishop Sprolt. Mr. Charles Haines, who has ht-eji on a six months' trip to Canada, Ceylon, Java and Australia, has returned to , Wellington much improved in health. Mr. John Fuller, 'jun., formerly a member of the Wellington City Council, is a visitor to Auckland. Mr. John Fuller, sen., is still in a precarious 6tata of health. Mr. Harold H. "Miller, manager of Messrs. G. Fowlds,. Ltd., of the Wellington branch, since its inception, has been appointed director of G. M.-Fowlds, Ltd., in Wellington. Mr. J. Murray, who has been manager for Messrs. Joseph Nathan and Co. at Palinerston North for some time past, is to manage the firm's business in the Waikato, besides having supervision of the manufactures for the firm in the Manawatu. Mr. H. E. Pacey, formerly manager of the New Zealand Dairy Association, and now a director of Messrs. Nathan and Co.. will have the management of the .firm's business in the Manawatu. Mr. B. A. Guise, who has been indis.posed for. some time past, is making a good recovery, but will not'be about again for another , week. Mr. J. M. Somerville, chief chemist for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at Auckland, has retire.d, after 32 years in the service, of which 27 were spent at Chelsea, ■ Mr. H. T. Thodey, accountant of the Auckland branch of the Bank of Australasia, has been appointed manager of the Invcrcargill branch. Mr. IS. C. O'Connor, manager of the United Friendly Societies' Dispensary, Courtenav Place, will leave next week ou a holiday trip to the Islands and Australia. He expects to be absent about three months, and during his absence Mr. Chatwin will be in charge of th j dispensary. . Mr. A. E.- Budd, of Messrs. A. 15. Budd and Co., Wellington, who is making a business trip to Great Britain. will leave by the s.s. Tainui. Mr. A. Budd, of Khandallah, is also leaving for England by ■ the same steamer. Wellington is unfortunate in the fact that it is losing more than one of its leading instrumentalists, us probably the finest flautist in New Zealand, Mr. Alfred Trudu, who is returning to Italy for an indefinite period, will bo seriously missed. Wellington is also to loso another of its best instrumentalists in Mr. Frank Johnstone, the spiffed 'cellist, who is about to leave Wellington in order to go into business with his brother in Melbourne. Mr. Johnstone came to New Zealand from Melbourne in 190G, having been engaged as a 'cellist for tho big orchestra that was assembled by Mr. Alfred Hill for the New Zealand Exhibition, and which may be said to be the beginning of orchestral aspiration in this country. After the Exhibition the orchestra, toured the country, and Mr. Johnstone was induced to take up his residence here. He has . been valued as a soloist, an orchestral player, and a teacher, and his departure will leave a. gap which can not be readily filled. During his residcnco i here married, and his wife (a daughter of Mr A. M. Montague), who is an able pianist and 'cellist, will also be i missed in musical circles. The Standing Committee of tho Wellington Technical Education Board, at : its meeting on Wednesday, made the following appointments:—Commercial mis--1 tress. Hiss Simpson, who has been for the last three years commercial mistress to the Southland Technical College, Invercarrnll. Chief instructor in plumbing, Mr. Alexander Barclay, inspector to the Wellington City Council, formerly . instructor in plumbing to the Nelson Technical School. Assistant instructor in plumbing, Mr. J. Gidall, who was formerly instructor in plumbing to the Nanu't and Hastings Technical Schools. Both Mr. Barclay and Mr. Gidall hold the final Oitv and Guilds of London certificate in lead work and house sanitation.