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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 246, 15 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. L. E. Bassett has been elected chairman of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce. Mr. C. J. Parr, CAI.G., MP. for Eden, left for Wellington by the express on Sunday evening. Colonel G. W. S. Patterson, O.C. Auckland Military District, returned from Wellington by the express. Dr. A. W. Averill, Bishop of Auckland, | and Archdeacon Hawkins returned by the express from WeUington. Mr. W. H. Dempsey, postmaster at I Pahiatua, will retire shortly on superannuation, after forty years' service, j | Mr. Leo Northcroft, formerly propria tor and editor of the ''West Coast Times,"' is now serving in South-East Africa. Mr. A. M. Jones, district accountant at Christchurch General Post Office, has been transferred to a similar position in Auckland. Mr. Robert Burns, president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, who recently suffered a broken leg, is making a favourable recovery. Dr. Robert Samuel Trotter, M.D., has been gazetted chief medical officer at Rarotonga in place cf Mr. G. P. Baldwin, L.R.C.P., who resigned. Mr. H M. Smeeton ;s making a satisfactory recovery in respect to his fractured leg, but it will be about the end of the month before he can return to the city. .J From one hundred applicants the H.B. A. and P. Society appointed Mr. A. M. Retemeyer, of Napier, secretary, vice Mr. Charles Douglas, resigned. —(Press Association.) Mr. A. E. Hyman, manager of the " Lyttelton Times" Company, whose health ha-s been lately. has been ordered a lengthy holiday hj" his doctor, and will leave shortly for Australia for six montns. Major Clifton, of Pahiatua, who tW« . reported to have been killed at GaHipoli. but who later proved to be very much alive, has gone from Napier to take up the position of Commandant of the (_ueen Mary Convalescent Home* Hanmer. Mr. Aubrey WHilams. third son of the Rev. W. j. Williams, minister of the Methodist Church at Sumner, having j been discharged from the New Zealand j Military Forces, after being wounded at Gallipoli. has joined his brother, Ot. Harold Williams, in journalistic work ** | Petrograd. Prior to the war he sp_* I jour years in Bussifc