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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 46, 22 February 1918, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. W. Ritchie, of Wellington, i≤ staying at the Star Hotel. Commissioner LTodder of the Salvation Army left for the south by last night'e express. The lion. Arthur M. "Myers (-Minister for Munitions) returned, to Wellington from Rotorua to-day. Mr. C. B. Morrison.. K.C., has sufficiently recovered from the operation he recently underwent to proceed to Rotorua for recuperative purposes. Mrs. R. Logan, wife of Colonel R. Logan, Military Governor of Samoa, arrived from tho south by the Main Trunk express this morning, and is staying at ■■A/undel." Mr. E. .T. Scantlebnry, chairman of .he Inangahua Co\uity Council, is at present visiting Auckland, but goes on to. Taurangu to represent. Reefton Fire Brigade at the United Conference to be held there. Mr. G. W. D. Mulgan, solicitor, of Auckland, who has been training in England for some time, has been gazetted to a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery. Mr. Mulgan passed sixth in the exjvnination for commissions, with over 80 per cent of marks. Major Kastrick (Hamilton), Lieutenant' Alan Rout (Nelson). Mr. G. P. Brown (Wellington), Mr. A. Purdie (Wellington), Mrs. L. Rout and Miss V. Habicht (Edinburgh), and Mr. F. Dawson-Walker (London) are staying at "Cargen." The Very Rev. Father Paul Aubry, S.M., lias been appointed the successor of tho late Very Rev. Dean Carew in tho pastorate of Greymouth. For the laet nine yeare Father Aubry has had charge of the parish of Waimate, in South Canterbury. Mr. Alexander Bell, M.A., who has been appointed to tho vacant position of secretary of the Education Department, comes from South Canterbury. Hβ has been a teacher, an inspector, and secretary for the Southland Education Board and the Board of Governors of the Southland High Schools. For the last three years he was in the head office of the Department.