PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 147, 22 June 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

j Mr \Y. R. Haselden, S.M., left for Weiington last evening. Mr. G. W. Russell. M.F. for Avon, left for Wellington by last night's express. Mr. H. S. Richards, Chrietehurch. . Rhodes Scholar for 1915, leaves shortly , for active service. , The Prime Minister left Wellington I lor Palmerstnn North to-day to attend ! the officiial opening of the Winter Show • thtre. Dr. Speeding, senior house surgeon of the Auckland Hospital. leaves for Tren- ' tham to-night to join the Xciv Zealand | 1 Expeditionary Force. ' Mr. H. G. .Stringer, secretary to the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company. left for Wellington to-day by the express. The Rev. A. J. Seamsr, superintendent of the St. Kilda and Peninsula Methodist Circuit, Dunedin, has enlisted for service as a private. Dr. ,T. D. Campbell Duncan, resident medical officer at Hanrner Springs, has been appointed as medical officer to the second Maori contingent. The Rev. Herbert Watson, vicar of Masterton, liars been appointed to succeed the Yen. Archdeacon Harper at St. Pet-er's Anglican Church, Wellington. Dr. W. C. W. McDowell has been reelected unopposed to represent tfcf Auckland District Court of Convocation on the Senate of the New Zealand University. The Rev. Father Clarke, formerly chapI lain to the Little Sitters of the Poor, j Ponsonby. has been appointed to Helidon. a township in the parish of Gatton, Queensland. Major R. G. Snodgrass. who is connected with mining in Rhodesia, arrived by the Westralia from Sydney last night. He will visit his relatives at Tauranga, after spending a few days in Auckland. Mr. Edwin T. Norris. at present registrar of Victoria College, Wellington, has been appointed Registrar of the New i Zealand University. There were foTtythree applicants.— (Press Association.) Mr. Robert Archibald, a member of the old firm of Scoullar and Archibald, Wellington, which erected the Government offices on Lambton Quay and other large buildings in Wellington, died to-day. aged SO.— (Pre-ss Association.) Mr. E. F. stationmaster at Wellington. has been presented by the executive council of I the National Reserve with a cigarette I case and holder, in recognition of splen- | dad work done in assisting to organise I the railway branch of the Reserve. Hon. J. A. Tale. X.C.. Dr H D Bim- | ford. Messrs. T. U. Wells and G. .T. Garland (chairman of the Board of EduI cation I have been elected members of ! the Council of the Auckland University College. Mr. J. H. Gunson succeeds Mr. :C. J. Parr, by virtue of his office as Mayor. i Mr. E. Xorden. secretary of the Canterbury Licensed VietuaMers' Associa- , jtion. who has gone to America for a , j trip on account of the state of h's i' health, was. prior to leaving, presented .! with a pair of field-glasses in recognition lof valuable service rendered in eonnec- . j tion with ,the Patriotic. Belgian and ReJ , J Cross Funds. ; Mrs. Rich;i-ds. wife of the late Dr. Henry Richards,. has j, w t died, aged 01 years. She arrived in Lyttelton in ISSO, I being a passenger in the ship Sir George | ' Seymour, one of the first four vesseb to I • anchor in Lyttelton Harbour. Mrs. I Richard was one of the first party of ; j Englishwomen who walked over the Port j Hilte, "by bridle path to reach the plains. I A pleasing function took place on , Saturday morning at the Colonial Sugar . Refining Company's works, Chelsea, when Mr. Thos. Hoiv.ewood. who is retiring on ! the employees" provident fund, after 30 . years' service in connection with the . refinery, was presented by the works , manager i Mr. E. V. Miller) with a pur*e ' • of sovereigns, on behalf of the officials i , ] and employees, as a token of the esteem [ in which he was held by afl. A very pleasing ceremony was held at , St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church , Paeroa. on Sunday mornine. when! M ?, f: £ r the churoh service. Mr. H. Poland! (i M.P.. presented Monsignor Hackett with an address and a purse of sovereigns from his parishioners. Mr. Poland *aid - that the local church pecvple oongratu r lated Monsignor Hackett on being con- - secrated as Monsignor, and they trusted .- that he would be long spared'to enjoy i his distinguished position and carry on I the good work he had been doing in ! Paeroa during the twenty odd v^ears he has been in charge of the parish