PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 280, 24 November 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

■ ■Hie Hon. James Allen, Minister of Defence, visited the camp at Avondale for the training of military engineers during the forenoon, and later in the day attended at the Domain for the purpose flf .being at the„6a4utLng base during the march past-in connection with the military fete. The Minister will probably leave on return for Wellington to-mor-row night. Mr. A- G- Ijmm was a. passenger for Sydney "t>y the Biverina. .AsjsiSfarit-liglitieepCT Broup-h, of Cape Maria lighthouse, has enlisted with the reinforcements. . Mr. William Rnssell, solicitor, who riled recently in Invercargill, aged 75 years, went from Auckland to Southland as far back as 1862. '.' D. Cossgrove, Chief Scoutmaster of the Dommion, arrived from -Wellington by the express, and took rooms a-t the Grand Hotel. Dr. W. A. Fairclotigh, hon. optha-lmic •"Surgeon at Anckland Hospital, was KTaJifced -leave of aisence last night, he having "been appointed .to the hospital ship Marama." Dr. A. A. Knight, of Epsom, and Dr. Scott, ofOnehnnga, have undertaken the duties of Mr. Carrick Robertson (hon. visiting snxgeon to the Auckland Hospital), during: that gentleman's absence at the front. 3lr. Eric N". Webb, who was magnetician in Sir Dcragias Mawson's Antarctic Expedition, has been given a lieutenant's commission in the Australian Imperial Forces. Lieut. Webb is a son of Mr. S. R. Webb, formerly Mayor of Lyttelton. . Mr. and Mrs. W. X. .Jowitt were passengers by the Eiverina last night for Sydney. For the last 17 year s Mr. .Towitthas been in the service of the National Insurance Company, but resigned in order-to take up a better position in Sydney. The manager and staff presented' Mr. Jowitt with a handsome travelling bag. The name -of Major William Kay is to be submitted by the Board of Education to the Befesford Street Sc&ool Committee, with a view to his appointment as ,headmaster. Major Kay is headmaster of the HunfcJy School, and i 3 now with "the New Zealand Forces at the front. ; Lieutenant R. 2i. Morpeth, son of Mr. r H- D. Morpeth, of Waihi, invalided home from Gallipoli some months ago, left Waihi to-day (our correspondent advises) to join the next reinforcements for the front He has been passed as medically, fit £y. the doctor. Lieut. Morpeth was -shot in She left arm during a charge by'Jfis, Company, the 6th Hau"r&kis.: : Ihe Education .Board to-day passed a resolution of sympathy in connection with the death of Private Thomas Hugh K3rk, who last his life in the sinking of the. iraiispor-t" Marquette. In moving ibe resolution, the chairman (Mr. G. J. Garland) referred to the deceased—formerly a -teacher at the Mount Eden School—aa a noble4iearted young fellow, .who 'had crane ±0 New Zealand from "England. It was decided to communicate,, the of the c resolnttofi,-4o- his relatives in England". - *"- 7.7 t.,'