PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 72, 18 December 1920, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The Hon. E. I'. I.ee, Minister, of Juslice, loft for south last iii&lit in'order to attend', the funeral. Of the lata lion. G. Jones, M.Ti.O.' •'l'lie funeral'is to take place.a;i Onuinru to-day.

The Minister of Kdueation (Hun. C. J.PanO -it-'turiifd (o Wellington. lijVt" i after a vis-it' io'iCie East Coast districts.

Mr, 0. L. Stewart, yeeretary of thn Wellington Education Hoard, has . left for •Dunedin, where .lie intends-to spend his piii istnms ami New Year .holidays. .

Mr. 'i'. K. Si\ley, M.P.,' 1 Who : 'has been oil a.visit to dia last nixlit -'' ;''/ : ''' I,

. The death occurred. yesterday inominK at I.evin of Mr. B. It. Gardener, Town Clerk, Levin, formerly Slayor ;for many vears, and a member of the 'Wellington Hospital Board.' Deceased <colh\psc.d' iu his oflice several weeks nxo, and' never recovered. He was 011 cof the lirst business men in Levin,-but devoted-himself In local government. holdintr•• office-.. >»t various times iit every, district .society; He was a prominent Druid.

Commissioner.H; C.'Hodtlcr, of the Salvation Army, .who has been visiting Hamilton, Gi/sbornc, ami' NiipioV, vill.be in. l'almerston .Nor.h to-day, 'anil AVill visit' Kltlmin on Sunday. 'On Monday evening'lie will preside sxt thfe uniiual demonstration niul in'izc-giviiij at the pilltliam Boys' Home. 1 ; ;

Mr. E. W. Hunt has. been elcc.ed /ft-vice-president of the New- Zealand Acad* emv of Fine-Arts, in place .p{. ill 1 . AV.;..A. Eon-ring.-'• who lias' just .sailed .for. Eggland..' Miv.Harky ; Griffiths lias, bccji elected-to a vacancy on' the council,

Tlio nionibcis ci'' the lioyal Commission,' appointed' to inquire' ihto'-'iftrttvori) connected v.'itli the ■ proposed ■ route-of th>! North Auckland railway, ' froiii 'J'iotio northwards, are at' pienrat in Wellington. The members are Messrs:' \V. Ferguson fof Wellington), J. B. II ate, and J; Begg. ■ _ •'

Mr. B. De K. Worker, assistant mas* tor at the eiiristcburclißoys?' ' High ' School, .Je.it by tlu\ Jhteraki ; for Sydney. Mr. Worker 1 is a representative of the combined New Zealand ti-nuriot'K' cricket tennis which'arc "to-play a set of snatches iu Australia. • • '

At (lie moetiiig Of shareholders of. tha Gt:ar Meat Company Inst night the. chair* man ' announced tnat . Mr. Wilfred .C. fellow, who Intel Iwcn in tiip..cmploy of the company for twenty-four vcai-ri, eleven of them as accountant, lias recently, been iippuintid secretary, and that Mr... John I'. Mackay, who had. Dcwn in the. fieri vice eighteen years, had, succeeded him as-accountant, ■~, • .

Mr. C. E. Bcvan •' Brown,' headmaster of' the Chris tchurch Boys' High School, yesterday closed his career -of l tliirty-six yews "as headmaster durine which ho liiiß seen tlio school' grovi" from infancy to the strongest, in the Dominion, and its members increased 'from seventy "to ■150. At tlio school prize-giving last night oulojjistic reference was made" to his' services by: ieadinK educationists,' masters* and. okUbbys/pf the school. Mr'.' Bevan Brown was presented by old boys with a silver trowel' syiiibolical of the wall.ho has built. Dunne the' afternoon he was the recipient of handibluo presentations from the present boys and'masters. ' Tho main preserfhitidn .from old .boys .will take, place in 'February.—Press Assn. t

Judso. AV. 13. Itawson, of _ tho , NiltivO Land Court, has ten appointed to hli tho newly-created office of Native irustee.. Tliis oilice was,,created under the Native Trustee .Act' Passed last■ session. At the rowtinsr of the Miriihiar Borough' Council last 'eycninK a v6to ofc.condolence wit® tho ' widow and family of tho,-late''(Jouncillor H. Iu Hobertsliaw. was djisbwl. . ' , Professor "H. H. Wine, who holds the clinir of animal,.husbandry in the, Cornell University, at lihaca,' New lO.'k, left Dmiediii.on Tuesday morning to'jom tho Moeraki for Australia.;; He has-been in New- Zealand .for telf weeks, tottnttt- the Dominion' and "visiting, the agricultural showli." ' .... ■ ,