PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 122, 16 February 1921, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Nottworthy) 'has gone to the Auckland district. He has arranged to visit North Auckland and will not be back in Wellington before the end of the month.

The Minister of Lands (Hon. D. H. Guthrie) went to Masterton yesterday. He had arranged to attend the Masterton show and a dinner in the evening.

Mr. J. C'raigie, M.P., is in Wellington at pre»ent. Mr. W. T. Foster, M.A., B.Litt., principal of Wellesley College, is relinquishing his position at the end of the month to take the chief French mastership at the Auckland Grammar School. Mr. ,W. Stuart Wilson has returned from a visit to Wanganui and Mt. Egmont.

Dr. J. M. Liston, -Coadjutor- Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, was installed in his new charge of St. Benedict’s parish on Sunday night. Mr. Camille M. Malfroy, whose appointment to the Forestry Department as Special Officer and Expert Timberman Adviser to Head Office is announced, is a native of Ross, Westland, and is the son of one of the pioneer sawmillers on the- West Coast. During the past thirty years Mr. Malfroy has had- experience of all branches of the timber industry, the greater part of the period mentioned having been spent in gaining first-hand knowledge of it. Mr. Malfroy served an apjirenticesliip with an engineering firm on the Coast, and afterwards had a spell at sea on vessels oi the Union S'team Ship Company’s fleet and obtained his marine engineer s certificate of competency. Later he returned to Ihe West Coast and managed the sawmilling and timber business of Messrs, J. C. Maltroy and Co. a business established in the 70’s, and the name and reputati n of which is well and favourably known in Canterbury as well as on the West Coast. A Christchurch paper says there are few men in the Dominion better qualified for the important position to which he has been appointed than Mr. Malfroy, who has been a resident of Christchurch for the past two years, and has represented the West Coast on the Canterbury Automobile - Association and t he Canterbury Progress League.

Mr. Kevin Dillon, formerly of Greymouth, and for some years past a resident of Wellington, died in the Wellington Hospital on Monday of peritonitis, supervening on ptomaine poisoning. Mr. Dillon is best known to the public ot Wellington as an elocutionist. During the last five years- he has recited many hundreds of times, and his services were, always available where there was a needy cause. He competed in the last Wellington Competitions, and oil the marks gained came out champion. He leaves a widow and four young children.