PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2236, 31 October 1908, Page 6

PERSONAL.

'Lieut. Fitzgerald, of the _ 'Wellington Engineers' staff, who is in charge of the advance survey of the Gisborneliotorua railway line, has been in town for a couple of days. _ He states his party is about four miles in advance of the main party and that the work is proceeding apace. Lieut. Fitzgerald is an enthusiastic believer in a strong .national defence, and each one of the seven men of his party is a volunteer of two years’ service or more. Mr. J. Boland, contractor, of Ormond, who was brought to town seriously ill about three weeks ago, has now'recovered sufficiently to be about again. Sir Robert Stout, president of tnc Native Land Commission, arrives from Wellington by this morning’s boat. Mr. D. J. Camming, of Gold Creek, has been a visitor to Gisborne during Carnival Week. The staff of the Geological .Survey Department is widely distributed at present. A geological party, under Mr. E. D. Clarke, is working in the Whamgaroa subdivision ; a. ’topographical party is at Tama, near Thames, under Mr. Colin Fraser, mining geologist; Mr. -J. H. Adams, assistant geologist, is conducting work in the pearoleum country near Gisborne : Mr. H. Richardson is in charge of topographical work _in the Heaphy subdivision, near Colflingwood, Nelson; and Mr. Ernest Webb, assistant mining geologist, has charge of the operations in the Mount Radiant subdivision, near Karimea.