PERSONAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2477, 16 April 1909, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. E. Akroyd, J.P. of Gisborne, has been appointed to the seat on the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. 0. E. Bartram.

The Rev. J. A. LochbVe. the newlyappointed minister of Wesley Church, with Mrs. Loohore and two children, arrived from the South by the s.s. Waikare yesterday morning. Mu. James, .representing Messrs J. J. Niven and Co.’s refrigerating machinery department, and formerly of theGisborne Sheepfarmers’ engineering staff, and Mr. Mitchell, surveyor, arrived from the South yesterday morning, and will proceed to Tokomaru to meet a number of farmers who are interested in the new freezing works company which has been floated there. Lieut. H. T. C. Knox, organising lechis wav Homc Troin ■l'lcctuif- WYt 9.H New Zealand, says, in a letter to the Home papers, that through the whole Dominion, from Auckland to the Bluff, he found the utmost enthusiasm for the navy and the work of the Navy League. He' adds that he received thei most whole-hearted support from the people and the Press.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office, m Lonaon. arc:—Mr. W. F. Calverley (Otago), Mr. and Mrs. J. J). Milton (Canterbury). Mr. D. Grant (AYhangareiL Air. I’. Gordon GMasterton). Air. 1). E. Davis (Hawke’s Bav). Air. C. D. Lightband (Wellington), Airs. Sydney Plummer (Miss Alary Whitelaw, Auckland), Air. John hoden (Tiuiaru). Air. AV. Dymoek (Na]>ier) Airs, and the Alisscs At ilkins (Auckland), Air. and Airs. C. Clayton (Marlborough), Aliss A. Brandon (AAellington). Air. and Airs. Norman FitzHerbevt (Wanganui). Air. Leslie AVhite (Auckland). Air. Raymond F. Alointyre (Christchurch). Dr. and Airs. Hams, Aliss Isaac. Aliss Porter, who top the past 14 years has acted as secretary for the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Society for the Protection' of Women and Children, has severed her connection with the Society in order to enter into business on li.-r own account at AVcllington. The general committee oi tli-e Society accepted Aliss Porter's resignation with regret, and presented tier with a travelling dressing case, while the ladies’ committee presented her with a travelling rug and leather 11 "lmly' iPlunket has been advised from London that a son lias been born to her brother, Lord Frederick Temple Blackwood (fourth) son of the first Marquw of Duffer in and Ava). .Lord Llaekwood, D. 5.0., is a captain m the Jth Captain Adjutant J E. Barton, one of the four New Zealand officers about to go to England for a course ot military training, is to be accorded a public send-off at Hamilton.