PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 224, 16 June 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal.

Last evening His Excellency tho Gov-ernor-General was entertaiued at dinner in the Wellington Club by tho senior Staff officers of G.H.Q. and His Excellency's personal staff. On Friday evening His Excellenoy is to bo entertained at dinner by the officers of tho Wellington District Staff.

Tito Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) returned front a brief visit to Napier by last evening's express. Mr. E. Biimnan, of Johannesburg, arrived from Sydney by the Uliraaroa on Monday. After a torn- of New Zealand lie is to leave for England via Japan. Mr. A. English, a recent arrival from India on furlough., left yesterday on a toar of the North Island, commencing at flotorua. The Rev. J. Bell, who has been a Baptist missionary in China for the past eight years, arrived from Sydney by tho Ulimaroaon Monday evening. The English mission of which lie has been a member lias been at work for sixty venrs in China. Mr. Bell said there had •been little real peace in China 6inco tho revolution of 1911, which gavo birth, to the present ropublic. Mr. 11. E. Dale, Assistant Secretary of the British Ministry of Agriculture, who lias .Jjeen for tho past two months in Fiji, investigating the organisation and pay of the Civil Service, is now in Sydney. He was formerly in the Colonial Office, and undertook his present mission at tho request of the Imperial authorities. Mr. Dalo has not yet completed his investigations, nnd will leave shortly for Ocean Island and the Solomons. He will probably return to England by way of China. M. Harold W. Hudson, managing director of Messrs. L. I). Nathan and Co., Auckland, will, ,with Mrs. Hudson, leave Wellington for 'San Francisco by tho Jlnrama on Thursday, en route to Europe. Mr. Thomas Carmichael, who died at the Lower Hutt 011 Monday, was for many years a prominent contractor in New Zealand. Born in Belfast 6'3 years ago, he came to New Zealand in 18M, and was educated and learned his calling at Christchurch, where ho and his father, Mr. Hobert Carmichael, carried on business for several years. When the contract for the Government Printing Office was secured by Messrs. Carmichael and Son, tho firm removed to Wellington. Mr. Carmichael, sen., died many years ago, and Mr. Thomas Carmichael carried 011 tho affairs of the firm. Tha New Zealand Government Life Insurance Building, the old General Post Office. th« offices of the Tftiion Steam Ship Company, the premises of the D.I.C. (subsequently destroyed by fire), ■ the Harbour Board offices, the Public Library, the Gear Company's works at Petone, the additions to the Wellington Meat Export Company's works oh Waterloo Quay, and the original electrical station in Harris Street were all contracts carried out b.v Mr. Carmichiiel. Mr. Carmichael was' at one time president of the Working Men's Club, nnd for several years a member of the City Council. On one occasion he stood for Parliament, but was defeated. Mr. Carmichael had been in very poor health for some years, and his death was not unexpected. He leaves a widow and one son And five daughtersMr. Leonard' Carmichael, auctioneer, Levin; Mrs. P. Jeffries, Newtown; Mrs. Glilbert, Karori; Mrs. Perry, Sydney; Miss Elsie Carmichael, who left recently for Vancouver; and another daughter who in living in Australia. St. .Paul's Presbyterian Church, Wa. nganui, has extended a unanimous call to the Eev. Evan B. Harris, of Chalmers Church, Timaru.—Press Assn. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Bowling Club last evening a vote of condolence and sympathy in connection with the death of the late Mr. Peter Still was passed in silence, all the mebers standing. The president (Mr. Thomas Ballinger) read a letter he had sent to Mrs. Still, and also read a communication from the Wellington Centre, which had also recorded its sympathy in connection with the death of Mr. Still. Mr. If. Carr was yesterday re-elected president of tho Wellington Chamber of Commerce. . A' resolution of sympathy with Messrs. James Lock it! and John Blundell in their illness was passed by tho members of tha Wellington Bowling Club at tho annual meeting held last evening.