PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 47, 19 November 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Prime Minister (Mr. Mnesoy) atlondcd tho Wnngnnui Show yesterday. Ho i* to re tarn to Wellington 'to-doy. • Tho Minister of Agriculture (Hon. W. NoAworihy) has gona south. He intends to spend a fow days at his homo in South Canlorbury. Sir Thomns Mnckenzio will bo chief guest and speaker at a New Zealand. Club luncheon to-day. The Clutha and Mnlnu A. and V. Society and the Clutha branch of tho Farmers' Union have decided to ilcnder a public welcome to Sir Thomas Mackenzie on his arrival in the Clutha towards tho end of tho month. ' Mr. A. 11. Fracr, record clerk of (he Labour Department, has been appointed chief clerk of the Department of Industries and Commerce aw Auckland. At yesterday's silting of tho Presbyterian General Assembly the following moi»on was unanimously adopted: "Tho

General Asscnibly, having learned that the Hon. J. G. \V. Aitken, recently Moderator of this Church, and known jind loved throughout tho Church as a wise counsellor, tireless worker, and of a. boundless geneiuvily to tho Church of his fathers in diislnnd, is prevented by failing health from attending tho meetings of this assembly tenders to him its profound sympathy, and prays that God, iu His great mercy, may restore \k> perfect health this brother beloved, and spare hijn for a length of days to tho Church which, for nearly forty years, he has served with a rare and unsurpassed devotion." Mr. E. E. 'Stark. City Electrical Engineer at Christchurch,. is leaving shortly on a trip to America to Inquire into tho latest methods of developing and distributing electrical energy. Mr. B. W. Millier, Assistant-Secretary to tho Marine Department, left on a holiday visit to Australia by the Manuka yesterday evening. One of tho best-known members of the polico force in New Zealand, Inspector Cruickshnnk, of Greymouth, is retiring at tho end of the year. Inspector Cruickshnnk was born in Scotland, and joined the police force as a trooper on tho Otago goldficlds in IS7B. Jn, 1880 ho was transferred to Dunedin, and after spending ten years there went to Lower Mutt, where he took charge. He was promoted to the rank of sergeant in 1900 and transferred to Wellington, whence lie went, two years later, to Dniineyirke as officer in charge. While stationed at Napier in 1911 lie wns ma<lo sub-inspec-tor. Subsequently he was stationed at Dunedin, Timaru, and Auckland, until, in 1915, he was promoted to his present position of inspector-iii-cliarge of, the West Coast police oTsir'fct. Inspector Cruickshnnk has to his credit such difficult pieces' of police work as the apprehension of Bosher, tlie Petone murderer, whom lie brought to book single handed. The inspector intends making a trip to Scotland in January to visit relatives and friends.

Mr. Robert Turnbull left on a trip to Sydney and Melbourne by the Manuka yesterday. Mr. J. A. C. Bator, who lias be-in connected with the. Union Steam Ship Company for the pa# 30 rears, both aphore «nd afloat and who during the past 19 years has been closely associated with (he Canadian-Australian Mail Line, has severed his connection with the company to take up an appointment in. the service of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine. Mr; John Brunton, M.4», headmaster of the Hokitika District High School, lias been selected os headmaster of the Waima'te. District High School, in succession to Mr. A. Bain, who has been appointed Inspector of Schools. Dr. and Mrs. A. H. ,Gilmer left on a holiday visit to Australia by] the Manuka yesterday. Mr. ,T. G.' Young, of the Greymouth Telegraph Office, has been appointed As-sistant-inspector of Post Olhces in the South Island. He will have his headquarters in Timaru. Mr. J. N. Vouch, of tho General' Post Office, Wellington, «uccecds Mr. Young at Greymouth. Misses Arthur, Grieve, and Keen wero Inst night ordained as deaconesses of tho Presbylerian General Assembly. They will work in the Maori mission field.