PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 206, 29 August 1916, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Mr. H. B. Lusk. of Christchurch, is at [•resent on a visit to Auckland. Mr. J. B. Fielder has completed fifty years' continual service as churchwarden, or vestryman, at Napier Cathedral. Mr. Jackson Palmer, Chief Judge of the Native Lands Court, arrived this morning and taok rooms at the Waverley Hotel. Mr. B. Whitcon.be. accountant to the branch of the Bank of New Zealand at Gisborne, has been appointed manager te the Marton branch. General Sir Alfred Robin. Officer Commanding the New Zealand Forces, returned to Frankton from Rotorua yesterday, and there caught the .sprees for Wellington. The Rev. A. J. Scamcr, president of. j the N.Z. Wesleyan Young Men's Union, ' has been appointed chaplain at Trentham military camp. Captain-Chaplain , Seamer enlisted last year, held rank as 'corporal in the Otago Infantry, and was invalided home from Egypt last May. | Mr. W. B. Fisher, treasurer of St ' John Ambulance Society, Wellington, and for twenty years secretary of the same organisation in Otago, is now regis-' tiar of the Military Home Hospital Reserves of the Society of St. John of Jerusalem. Mrs. Joseph Primmer, who has just died at Nelson in her !)Bth year, was the right type of settler for a new country. She had seventeen children, of whom twelve are still living. There are upwards of sixty grandchildren, .17 greatgrandchildren, and tliTee of t>he fourth generation, making a total of over 100 descendants. Mrs. Primmer arrived in Nelson in 1542. Mr. T. K. Sidey, who has represented Caver-ham since 1001, and is the author of the daylight saving scheme, on which the National Government sustained their only defeat since coming into being, has been seriously considering the question of his retirement from politics at the end of the present Parliamentary term; but. before doing anything definite will confer with hfe committees. Mr. V. Maxwell, of the staff of Griffiths and Barker, was presented with a handsome leather bag upon the occasion of his leaving for camp. He is an old King's College boy, and takes a prominent part in all branches of athletics, many trophies having been won by his efforts.'He is a member of the University football teaim. Mr. Maxwell had only attained the age required by the military authorities, and although holding a first lieutenant's commission in the 3rd Auckland Regiment, he was debarred from holding the rank in the Reinforcements, and was entering as a private. Mr. Barker, in making the presentation said that although sorry to part with Mr. Maxwell, it was somewhat tempered by the knowledge that h e was leaving at the call of duty. "