PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 150, 21 March 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Thomas Mackenzie, whose appointment to the Legislative Council, was announced’ on Friday, took the oath on Saturday afternoon, ajid sat as a member of the Council.

Mr. Henri Segaort, Consul-General for Belgium in New Zealand, having completed an extensive tour of the various centres of the Dominion, is back in Wellington for a few days. He will bo the guest at the New Zealand Club luncheon to-morrow, and wifi return to his headquarters in Sydney by the s.s. Manuka, sailing on Thursday next. Mr. Allen H. Hunter, who after serving his apprenticeship in the engineering shops at Fort Chalmers, went to sea and had a varied experience in Great Britain and America, has just been elected president of tho Institute of Marine Engineers of Australasia. Ho was a few years ago admitted a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, T/w--don, and is at present in the service of the Vacuum Oil Company. Air. Hunter is a brother of Dr. Irwin Hunter, nf Dunedin, and of Professor Hunter, of Victoria College, Wellington.

Captain W. Ivory, p.a.c., R.N.Z.A., accompanied by his wife, arrived by the s.«. Corinthic. Captain Ivory has been attending the Ordnance College, Woolwich, where he took his p.a.c., and was afterwards attached to the High Commissioner’s Office, London. Mr. C. W. Chilcott. of tho Valuation Department, Wellington, who has been promoted to the Auckland branch, left for the north by Saturday’s express. Mr. W. E. Leicester was admitted an a solicitor of tho Supreme Court on Saturday by His Honour tile Chief Justice (.Sir Robert Stout). Mr. Charles Davis, of the firm of Green and Davis, Lambton Quay, who loaves on a holiday trip to Australia early next month, was presented hv Mr Noble, on behalf of the staff, with n handsome leather suitcase. Mr. Claude M- Haydon, the gifted Melbourne composer, has taken up his residence in Wellington. Mr. Haydon, who is a brother of Miss Haydon (principal of the Queen Margaret College), has composed all classes of music, including an opera on the subject of "Paola and Francesca/* which was produced in Alelbourne last year.

Captain 11. Hollis, marine superintendent for Australia for the Commonwealth, and Dominion Steamship Line, arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Port. Macquarrie last week. Mr. J. H. Lynskey, who will leave Petone shortly to become headmaster of the Eketahuna District High School, was entertained bv members of 'the Petone Cricket Club at a social evening on Saturday. Mr. H. Ryder, president of the «lub. presided over tho gathering. Eulogistic reference was made to the work for which Mr. Lynskey had been respon Wide and all present expressed their regret at hie departure from the district. He was presented with a case of pipes and smoking set.