PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 239, 6 October 1916, Page 2

PERSONAL.

' Miss A. Scully, supervisor of the Wellington Telephone Exchange, has been appointed inspector of the telephone exchange and -women's post offices.

Mr F. Shannon has resigned his position of engineer to Rodney County Council, in order to take up a similar i position for Matamata county.

Mr Arbeit Spencer has been elected -president of the Auckland Employers' Association, in succession to Mr E. A. Craig, who resigned.

Professor Bedford,, having obtained assurance from Wellington that he can rely on being bode m the Dominion in February, leaves for France by a transport shortly. He is going into the huts to further the general work of the Y.MOA.

The Hon. G. Fowlds left by the midday express for Wellington to-day. He will lay the foundation-stone of a new Congregational church in Cambridge Terrace in Wellington on Saturday afternoon, and win catch, the Moeraki for Sydney next Thursday to attend the Australasian Convention of the V.M.C.A. on the. 19hh inst. .He <wUI return to Auckland by the Makura on the 30th inst.

f Mr Riohard Monk, who died at Kaikoura this week, aged 87 years, joined' i the British Navy when a boy of 14, and ! afterwards came to the Bay of Islands in 1849. Later he was l employed by the I late Sir John Logan Cajnrpbell in Auck- ' I land until 1852, and in 1858 went to the 'Victoria diggings, and afterwards returned to New Zealand to the CoUing- ' wood field. He went to. Boat Harbour, Amuri, in 1866, but took up hie. residence at Kaikonra last year.

Commander F. P. Armstrong, K.N.Y.R., wfll be entertained at a dinner by the Auckland Yachtsmen's Naval Volunteer Defence Force at the Waverley restaurant this evening. Boating clubs on the Waitemata will all be represented, and Sir F. Lang and Captain Sergeant (harbourmaster) will he present. Commander Armstrong is leading the mission at present in Auckland to obtain officers and mechanics for the special motor boat patrol.