PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 223, 18 September 1915, Page 8

PERSONAL.

1 . , i Mr. T. G. Lewis, Town Clerk of Morn- i ington, has been appointed to a similar t I position at Waimate. j I Mr. C. E. Daniell, chairman of Wei- ' • lington Harbour Board, is paying a visit ' |to Auckland. Mr. L. I_ Speedy, manager of the I' I Stores Department at Wellington for |' l Haywards Picture Supply, Ltd., is in j I town on a short visit, and is staying at Cargen. He returns by Monday's express. > Mr. John McDonald, ex-Mayor of ! i Dunedin, and well known in Masonic j 1 and sporting circles there, is at present |. on a brief visit to Auckland. He is stay- i , ing nt the Waverley Hotel. , }Ir. P. Hercus (late manager of tho ,; Kaiaipoi Woollen Company), has 'been ' appointed managing director for the 1j Tasman North Fruit Lands Company.]; The land of the company is on the Moutcre Hrlls, Nelson, near _lottueka. ' Mr. James .Martier, of the head office atari of the Bank of New Zealand, 'has •been appointed manager of the S_uth Dunedin branch. For a number of years Mt. Mart'ier was manager of -ranches ' at Levin, and also at Hawke's Bar. • Mr. A. 'H. Rusihton, chief clerk at the Alliance Insurance Company's office, i Wellingiton. has retired in order to go j a.pple fanning at Masterton. Mr. Rti-h----ton was presented before leaving with a very handsome oak folding desk, bear-1 ing a silver pla.te conveying the best I wiishes of the stafT. " J Major F. A. Field has been -riven a . commission as captain with the next Mounted Rifle Contingent for the front, \ , and joins at Trentham on the 27th inst.'! Major Field is a member of the Land and I Survey Department, nnd has been con-j nected with the Parncll branch of the! National Reserve since its initiation. He ' is an Imperial officer, and has seen service in India. Egypt, and South Africa. Superintendent John Ellison, of Wellington, retires on superannuation at the end of this month. Ma-. Ellison is wclJ known in Auckland, where ihe was 1 stationed for .many years as chief crerk ; in the police office. Long before that time, however, ihe was a consita.ble sta- i tioned at Thamies. Mr. Ellison was al- , ways recognised as a first-class officer, i At a parade of the \VeMr_jrt__ force on I Tuesday the Superintendent, reply-in"- i to some flattering remarks upon " his i lengthy and honourable service, eta'ted i ithat he did not intend to take ' advan- ] tage of the provision, which p-rmiitte-i him to remain in office for an extra" six i months, as it was ilia opinion .hat when an officer reached the age Hunt of 05 ■ yeans, he should retire. After visiting the Old Country, Mr. Ellison intends t. ; I 'return to New Zealand.