PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 46, 18 November 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. His Excellency tho Governor-General, after visiting l'almerston North and Wanganui next week, will pay official visits to Hastings, Napier, Dannevirke, and Masterton. / The Prima Minister has arranged attend tho Wanganui Show to-datf. , He will leave Wellington by tho early mail train, and will return to-morrow. Tho Minister of Internal Affairs (the: Hon. G. J. Anderson) has arranged •to leave Wellington on Friday night for the Hotorua district. He will snend sereral days there, and will also pay a visit to Taupo. Ho probably will not go. any further north. The Minister of. Public Works (the non. J, G. Coates) will remain in WellirigTon until about the end of tho month. Ho will then go north, and he intends to spend a week or .ten days in his own/electorate. He wilt return ct, Wellington and then will go north again for the holidays. lie intends to spend a mouth in tho South Island early in tho New Year. He will go through tho Waiau Valley in order to inspect the suggested route of tho South Island •Main Trunk line, and ' will also. visit the Lake Coleridge power works «nd tho Otago Central district.

-The Minister of Education (the 'Hon C. .T. Parr) expects to remain in Wellington for the next two or three weeks.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie will be chief guest and speaker at a Now Zealand Club luncheon to-morrow.

Mr. T. Forsyth, chairman of the Education Board, was yesterday reappointed ♦ho board's representative on the Wellington Training College Committee of Advice. ,

Sir Raymond Dennis, managing director of Messrs. Dennis Bros., of Guildford, England, who is .visiting Australia, will shortly-visit New Zealand. '

The following resolution was passed by the Education Board yesterday"Thyit tlie board place' on record its deep sense of the value of the services of Mr. J. P. Shand to tlie cause of education in the Wellington education district during his membership of the board, and that it record its appreciation of the fidelity withi which he discharged tho duties of his office.

The following resignations of teachers were received and accepted by the Education Board yesterday Miss L. Leitch, assistant, Lyall Bay; Miss A. Ritchie, assistant, Paliiatua D.H.S.; Mr. C. Oaken-' full, relieving sole teacher, Cross Creek: Miss Lucy Cotter, solo teacher, To Wharau; Miss Gledhill, sole teacher, Fairy Bay; Miss D. Prfchard, assistant, Piston; Miss A. Neumann, assistant, Picton; Miss I. E.i M'lsaae, sole teacher, Patuki; and Miss F. G. Turner, sole teacher, Stephens Island.

Dr. F. Rayner left for Auckland by the Main Trunk express last evening.

At the Railway Workshops, Petone, yesterday the staff assembled to 'bid goodbye to Mr. C. T. Bargh, workshops manager, who has received notice of his transfer to the East Town Workshops. Mr. W. H. Johnston presided, and on behalf of the officers and men presented Mr. Bargh with a suit case, suitably inscribed, and a tobacco pouch and pipe as a token of the esteem in which Mr. Bargh is held. Mr. Bargh, in responding, referred to the strenuous years during which! the nation was at war and of tho part the Petone Workshops had taken in upholding the British flag. 110 thanked tlie members for their presentation to him and the kindlv references, made. Mr. J. Clark, from East Town, received a cordial welcome.