PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 98, 19 January 1921, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (the Right Hon. AV. F. Massey) will be presented at noon to-day with the decoration. recently conferred on him by the King of Belgium. The Minister of Education (Hon. C. J. Parr) and the Minister of Justice (Hon. E. I’. Lee) returned to AVellington from Christchurch yesterday. The Minister of Public Works (Hon. J. G. Coates), who recently completed a comprehensive tour of the northern districts, has arranged to leave for Blenheim on Friday in order to commence a tour of the .South Island. He will go south via the Wairau Valley, and will examine the proposed route of the Scuth Island Main Trunk railway. He will visit the hydro-elcctric works at Lake Coleridge and other important public works in the South Island. Mr. Coates will be away from AVellington for several weeks. The Minister of Internal Affairs (HonG. J. Anderson), who is ut present visiting Marlborough, is expected to return to AVellington on Friday. Mr. Anderson has been discussing river protection works with local bodies in the AVairau district. A Press Association message from Auckland states that Mr. V. R. S. Meredith. of 4he firm of Messrs Hesketh, Richmond, Clayton, and Meredith, barristers and solicitors, has been appointed Crown Prosecutor for Auckland in succession to the late Hon. J. A. Joie, K.C. Mr. C; AV. Garrard has senior inspector of schools for the Auckland district, states a Press Association message from Auckland. Mr F. A. Vaughan, who just before Christmas underwent a serious operation at the Willis Street Hospital, has nowbeen pronounced out of danger, but i will be some time before he will ho able to be about again.