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Captain L. H. Booth, N.Z.M.C, of the Rotorua Hospital staff, hae returned from leave and resumed duty. Mr and Mrs Roderick McKenzie, of Christchurch, are staying at Cargen; also Mr and Mrs J. Williams, of Dunedin. Sergeant Hodgson, of Dunedin South, has -been appointed to Onehunga in succession to Sergeant Rogers, who retired last month. Major "W. McKail Geddes, who was O.C. of the troopship Tahiti, returned to Auckland from Wellington by the Mokoia last evening.. Major W. A. Chappie, of London, Is staying at CJargen. He is an ex-MJ". of New Zealand, and recently represented a Scotch. - -constituency in tne British Home of Commons. ..Mr. A- D. Stanley yesterday took .tip his' duties as secretary to the Auckland Agricultural and Pastoral Association, W.-B. Fordyce, the former secretary who resigned his position, is remaining for another fortnight, assisting Mr. Stanley. Mr. G. A. Thompson, of Chrietohurch, 'has been appointed secretary and registrar' of the Anglican -Diocese of Auckland, in succession to the late Mr. W. J. -Speight. Until Mr. Thomson arrives here, the Rev. J. L. A. Kayll, acting secretary, -will continue to fulfil the duties of the office. Sir- Ernest Rutherford, the newly appointed Cavendish. Professor of Experi-.' mental Physics at Cambridge, has been elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College. He afterwards proceeded to the M.A. degree. At the same congregation he was admitted to his professorship. He has also had conferred upon him at Durham University t"he honorary degree D.Sc. Mr Frank H. Burbusb; district repatriation officer, was expected to arrive in Rotorua on Thursday night to make arrangemente in connection -with the appointment of a successor to Major Tattersell, local repatriation officer, who recently resigned his position. It is anticipated in the town that Mr McPherson, secretary of the Returned Soldiers' Association, will be appointed to the vacant post. Mi 3J. Sinclair, the oldest member of the Rangiora Presbyterian Church, was presented by the congregation with an easy chair on her ninetieth birthday. Last Monday her brother-in-law, Mr James Shields, attained his ninetieth year, and the congregation marked the event by making him a similar presentation, in the presence of relatives. Besidee Mre Shields, who is eighty-six years of age, there were also present her sisters, Mrs Sinclair, -who is in her ninetyfirst year, and Mrs. J. Pattereon, who is eig-hty-three years of age. The only other member of this long-lived family is a brother in Scotland, who is eighty-eight years of age, and -who only recently retired from a position which lie held in a lawyer's office. , - ' "" ~