PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 44, 16 November 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

.The Minietor of Education (nor.. C. J. - Parr) is expected to return to Wellington from the south this morning. ■ Tho Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. : G. J. Anderson) has arranged to visit northern districts at the cad of this weok. Dr. J. Bronte Gatenby, a New Zenliuidor,' was the first to qualify for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, recently i created at Oxford University. He was . recently a Follow of the Royal Microscopical Society, is lecturer on Cytology .it University College,: •London, and w : appointed to the new BeadowMp m ; Cytology, which it is proposed to set up. ■ i .V Press Association telegram from . Hamilton states that Mr. W. Gruar. a ; orominent business man nnd borough : councillor, died on Sunday as the result i of a motor nccident a week ago. ill's, i Gruar, who was also seriously injured, is i progressing favourably. Dr. Itichard Charles Mills, thirty-four : years of age, who at present is tutor m ' History and Sociology at Melbourne TJm- ,■ vcrsilv and Lecturer in Economics for the .Workers' Educational Association, Melbourne, has been appointed Professor of Economics at Otago Universitr.— Pwss Assn. : Ml- CV. Roberts,' of the staff of the I Magistrate's Court at Auckland, has been • transferred to Waihi. , ! Mr H. G. Absolum has been appointod clerk in charge of the Hamilton otbes of the Department of Agriculture. i Mr W H. P. Barber was elected a ■ member of the Wellington Chamber of- • Commerce at yesterday's meeting of the . council. , Mr. Ernest Clarke, brother of Sir Hus pert Clarke, Bart., arrived trom ,Mel- • bourne by the Westralia last night. _ Mr. G. Blackmore has been iiPPO!"1 ed first assistant in the Town Clerks " office, Lower Hutt. 1 Mr W. Paterson, for several years con- " nected with the Ocean Accident Corporation, has resigned from the position of Dunedin branch manager on account of . ill-health. Ho is succeeded by Mr. J. H. ■ ', Mackay, of the Liverpool, London and ' Globe 'Company's 6taff. '. Mr. Burton Butler, of Milford, Auckland, will leavo Wellington by the Corinthic to-day on an extended visit to tho Old Country.