PERSONAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 23 May 1910, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Hon. A. T. Ngata left Wellington on Saturday on an official visit to the Urewera Country. Lieut. R. S. Beere, of the Victoria College. Officers Traimn? Corps, haa been promoted to captain.

His Excellency the Governor will hold a levee at the Legislative Council Chambers on Thursday. 2nd June.

Brigadier J. H. Bray, of the Salvation Army, is gazetted an official visitor to all the prisons in the Dominion.

Mr H. C. Waterfield, private secretary to the Governor, will leave for England by the Rangitira. - Mr J. Cudby is gazetted a member of the Assessment Court under the Valuation of Land Act for the district of Pet^ne.

Mr C. E. Shortt has been appointed Registrar of Marriages, Births, and Deaths for the district of Palmerston North.

Mr P. Verschaffelt, of Wellington, has been licnsed to act as a public auditor for the purposes of the Friendly Societies Act. This evening Sir Joseph Ward will leave for Christchurch en ioutß to the West.Coast, where he will unveil a memorial to the late Mr Seddon.

As a further part of the sehame for retrenchment in connection with the Justice Department, Dr. R. H. Makgill, medical officer at Aucklat-d, has been asked to do in addition to his present duties, the work of police and prison surgeon at Auckland Tnis will involve the retirement of Dr. W. J. Darby, gaol surgeon, and Dr. E. W.Sharman, police surgeon.

"To Captain Lambert from p siengers on s.s. Arahura in memory of Halley's Cpmet, 19th May 1910," reads an inscription on a pipe presented to Captain Lambert by Mr Colvin, M.P., on Saturday, on behalf of passengers, mostly Westport residents, who were on the steamer dur ing the trip from Nehon to Wellington on Thursday night, the date of the vist of Halley's Comet.

Mr G. Craig has been appointed chief clerk of the Customs Department in auccessitn to Mr W. B. Montgomery Mr Craig has been connected wit i t e department since 1891, when he entered the service as a'cadet in Timaru. and the following year waa transferred to Christchurch, where he remained until his appointment to the head office in 1894. Three years later he was transferred to Dunedin as Landing Waiter, in which capacity he was given charge of the audit j branch at the head office in 1907, ai.d now he assumes the duties of head clerk.