PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 75, 2 August 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Sergeant McNeely left last night for Auckland on holiday. >

Mr R. Masters has been appointed a member of the executive committee of the Stratford A. and I*. Association, in place of Mr A. Stewart, who has left the district.

Mr C. P. Lindergreen has resigned from the position of organiser for the * Reform League to enter upon business on his own account.

Mr R. H. Modlin, of Christchurch, has been elected a member -ot the Commercial Education Committee of Sydney Chamber of Commerce.

Mi' James Seed, an old and respected resident of Eltham died yesteiday morning. Mr Seed, who had reached the advanced age of 71 years, came to New Zealand in the old sailing vessel Victory nearly half a century since, having been born in Preston, Lancashire, England.

Mr Philip Newbury passed through Wellington on Thursday by the Wimmera on his way from Dunedin to Auckland to take part in the performance of Rossini’s “Moses in Egypt’’ on the 12th instant.

Captain Alexander Farquhar, who has commanded steamers running between Auckland and the Thames for the last forty-five years, has just resigned from the service of the Northern Steamship Company.

Four more inspectors and teachers of physical training under the Education Department have just been appointed by the Government. They are Messrs Francis R. Just, Stanley Moore, Walter A. Johnson, and Miss Dorothy K. Heritage.

Dr. J. P. Frengley, who has been.

acting as deputy chief health officer . at Auckland during the epidemic, rei turned to Wellington on Thursday by the Main Trunk express. The special object of the trip concerns the working of the Plumbers’ Board of New Zealand, of which he is chairman. The board holds its second meeting on Tuesday next. /

Mr Alexander Lucas, a member of the Provincial Parliament of British Columbia, is at present in Auckland. He is one of a Royal Commission recently appointed to inquire into agricultural matters, and hasi come to the

Dominion to make inquiries into the 'State advances to settlers, State insurance, and the* labour question, as it affects agriculture. Mr Luca® will

ttavel through New Zealand, and trill afterwards visit several Australian ' cities, returning to Vancouver some ! 1 time in November. - ; !i ■ I I ■ * ■i l ' :< ' I - ,

One of the chief themes of conver-

sation just now between the King and his uncle, the Duke of Connaught, is b the proposed visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada during the summer

of next year, on which the Duke is uncommonly keen (says an English 1 ’" weekly). The King has asked Jura to prepare a complete memorandum on the subject, in order that it may be considered in all its bearings. The idea is that the Prince should be accompanied by his brother, Prince Albert, and that he should be away some six months. But the question of the two going together will need to be rather carefully considered, for the larkish propensities of the younger brother, and his hail-fellow-well-met way with everybody have a tendency to put his shyer and more reserved brother into the shade. So at present the scheme is being received with some misgivings in the very highest quarters.