PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2339, 4 November 1908, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Mi*. Dart an left for W-airoa yesterday morning. _ -■ rTTI The appointment of Mr Thomas Patrick Burke as inspector under the Orchard and! Garden Diseases Act is announced. . In consequence of the increasing importance of the railway works m Westland, particularly in- connection with the Arthur’s Pass tunnel, it has been decided to separate the posi- , t-ions of Government (Resident Engineer and engineer to the Grey-mou-bh Harbor Board, held by Mr John Thomson. Mr Thomson will aetvas Harbor Board engineer, and Mr J. iH. Lewis', resident engineer of Broken River, will take over the duties of resident engineer -at Greynioutli. Mr Hugh Vickerman, of the North Island Main. Trunk railway, will succeed Mr Lewis at Broken River, leaving for that position as soon as the Main Trunk line is open for traffic. Mr C .0. Reade, formerly connected with the literary staff of the “Manawatu Times,” who his been resident in London for over three years, returned to Wellington last week. Mr Reade was on the staff of the London illustrated paper “The Grown,” which subsequently became defunct, and gained a considerable knowledge of England- through his sojourn in the Metropolis. The -reports of the industrial depression at Home, which have been given by several recently-returned New ~ Zealanders, are repeated by Mr Reade, who considers the outlook extremely gloomy. According to the “Otago Witness,” Fred Jackson, the big Cornish forward of the British Rugby team, who has been much in the public eye of late, is -/still- in Dunedin, and more unlikely things may -happen than that he will settle there for some time. It is Jackson’s intention to get ian insight into the dredging industry in this country, arid with that object he purposes visiting the principal dredges in -Otago. Jackson hias a deal of experience as a practical and theoretic miner in Cornwall, but is anxious to gain some knowledge qf gold-dredging. After the ordinary business of the Cook. County Council was concluded yesterday Cr. Matthews said that as one of the oldest- sitting members of the Council he would like to congratulate the chairman, the Hon. Capt. Tucker, on the way the business of the Council had been conducted during the past two years, and thank him for the courtesy extended to Councillors. Perhaps on occasions the Chairman had 1 allowed a little too much latitude in the discussions, but he bad always conducted the business of th Council in the interests of the ratepayers, and lie (Or Matthews) hoped that Capt. Tucker would come back again to preside over the Council after the elections.. He moved that a resolution appreciative of Captain Tucker’s services be placed on the minutes. Cr. Sherratt seconded and C.r W. D. Lvdnar supported the motion, which was carried unanimonslv. Captain Tucker briefly thanked the Councillors for their appreciation of his work. » It was a pleasure to him, he said, to sit on the Council and he hoped that when the elections came-, the ratepayers would show their confidence in the Cimcil'lors by Returning them.