PERSONAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3722, 7 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES.

Mrs. Morice. the victim of the motor mishap no - • Waikaremoana, was reported yesterday to- be progressing favorably. A London P.A. cable states that Canon Carnegie, of Birmingham, has succeeded Canon Hensley Henson at Westminster.

Mr H. W. Capper, Chief Postmaster at Timaru, retires on pension at the end of the month, after nearly 42 years’ service. He has been at Timaru since 1908.—P. A. Mr H. C. Rogers, until recently Inspector for the State 'Fire Insurance Department (savs a Christchurch P. A. wire) has taken over the managership of the State Fire Office in Canterbury in place of Mr F. J. G. Wilkinson, resigned.

Mr Sydney Hoben, formerly of Napier, is meeting with a considerable amount of success in Pasadena, California, where, according to a local paper, lie has a big programme of musical engagements for the coming season. He is a prominent figure on local concert platforms, and has played in recitals from Oregon to Mexico.

Mr Henri Pain was absent from the weighing room at the racecourse on Boxing Day (says the Westport “Times” and “Star”). He is fully entitled to retirement, as he lias weighed riders at the Westport races almost contimously for 44 years. He officiated at the first races held, in 1868, in a paddock on the town side of the Orawaiti River.

Wiring last night, the Invercargill agent of the .PA. said:—Hon. A. L. Herdman (Minister for Justice) arrived in Invercargill on Saturday, and visited the Bluff to-day. He visited the Reformatory, where the system of treatment and working of the institution was fully explained to him. Ho also visited Otara. to view the area it is proposed to reclaim from that direction. Before his departure for the North to-morrow morning, the Minister will he waited, on by a deputation from the Prisoners’ Aid Society, and another from the Southland Law Society. The Postmaster-General announces the following transfers and promotions in the Post and Telegraph Department:—A. P. Dryden, Chief Postmaster, New Plymouth, to be Chief Postmaster, Wellington; H. Kissel, Postmaster, Palmerston North, to be Chief Postmaster, Timaru; C'. H. Burton, assistant Postmaster, Dunedin, to be Chief Postmaster, _ New Plymouth ; W. Beswiek, assistant Postmaster. Christchurch, to be Postmaster, Palmerston North; F. H. Dodd, Chief Postmaster, Westport, to be Assistant Inspector of Post Offices; F. S. Stokes, accountant, Dunedin, to be assistant Postmaster, Dunedin; A. W. Mann, Postmaster, Waihi, to be Chief Postmaster, Westport; H. A. Ciller, accountant, Christchurch, to be assistant Postmaster, Christchurch; G- F. B. Smallbone. Postmaster, Marton, to be Postmaster, Waihi; F. Perrin, Extra Staff Officer, to ho sub-in-spector of Post Offices; A. M. Jones, second Money Order and Savings Bank clerk, Wellington, to he accountant, Christchurch; W. J. Worthington, accountant,, Napier, to he accountant, Dunedin; J. T. Wylie, Postmaster, Port Chalmers, to be Postmaster. Marton ; G. Menzies, accountant, Nelson, to be accountant, Napier; D. A. Jenkins, relieving officer, to be second Money Order and Savings Bank clerk. Wellington; A. E. McGregor, chief clerk, Westport, to be chief clerk, Nelson ; F. Brebner, relieving Postmaster, Dunedin, to be Postmaster. Port Chalmers; G. B. Purdue, clerk, Invercargill, to be accountant, Nelson.— P. A-