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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 156, 2 July 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

■ I I Major R. W. Wymam left for _js So_: by the express last evening. ,-. Captain J. H. HIE, of-H_~ -H_a_3_ters Staff, Wellington, arrived, front Rotorua on Saturday. Mr. W. Callender, general manager of the Bank of New Zealand, left for "Wellington by the express. V. Mr. J. H. Gtmson left by the express last evening to attend a meeting of tta Efficiency Board at Wellington. ) Mr. W. J. Jackson, who has been connected for some months wish the Base Military Post Office, London, has been invalided home. Mr. Justice Hosking arrives from CSbborne next Sunday, and will preside st the civil sittings of the Supreme Cora* the following day. Mr. Albert E. Grey, representing lag interests in New York Gby, U_UL, was a passenger font the South yesterday morning by the express. Mr. A. H. Ellicott has beea returned unopposed as a member of the Waipa County Council for the Hamilton Riding, vice Mr. S. Steele (resigned). Miss Niell, the recently appointed matron of the Infections Diseases Hospital, Christchureh, has resigned thai position owing to 'file illness of her father. Mr. David Shaw, whose death was reported recently, was one of. the cliepatchriders for the late Sir Donald Mclean. As a member of the Armed Constabulary he was under fire on several occasions during the Maori troubles. Mr. George Bell, of Palmerstan North, who recently enlisted, is a Second Dm* sion man, and the last of the nine adult males in his family to don khaki Three of the female members of the family are in munition factories, and another is a hospital nurse, Brigadier-General W. J. T. Glasgow, who was awarded the GM-G. in the New Tear's honours for services during the war, was the first Nelson College boy t» receive a commission in the Imperial Army under the original scheme for granting corn-missions to New Zealanders. Dr. WißHrtn I_ P. Gordon, M.A., who is now a lieutenant-surgeon with one of the reinforcements from New Zealand, was married to Dr. Doris Joßy. Both Dr. Gordon and his wife have been accepted for service by the Foreign Mission Cony mittee of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, but their departure has been postponed for the present The members of the Hamilton Law Society on Saturday met and presented one of their number, Mr. H. Nouns, wiw is now on final leave, with a case of military brushes. Mr. M&eDiarmid (president), in making the presentation, assured the recipient that he enjoyed the goodwill and esteem of all the practitioners in the district, sentiments in which other speakers jomed. 3__ N'OTris suitably replied. A Press Association telegram front Hawera records tire death of Mr. John Christie, journalist, for some years editor of the Hawera "Star" and Ashburton "Guardian." Previously he was on the literary staff of the North Otago "Times" at Oamaru. He married a daughter of the late Mr. George Searle, a journalist well known in Invercargill and Wellington over thirty years ago. He is survived by two daughters, resident in Australia. Mr. Christie was a man of exceptional literary ability, and, apart from his journalistic work, published several books of poems and essays, which received high commendation from k&diag newspapers. j