PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 197, 20 August 1919, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The lion. 11. Heatou Rhodes. M.1., and Sir Walter Buchanan, M.1..C, are returning to New Zealand in the same steamer. Dr. 1. K. b'aris, of Wellington, formerly ! iL.nltk i iflw.nr ot Ihmodin has nassed ill

Health Officer at Uunedin, has passed in j «ll subjects of the second section for the [ diploma of public health. Captain P. B. Henderson, M.1., lias been appointed chief instructor in tho miiskotry and machine-gun school at Trentham. Mr. Jnmc< Macintosh, director of Wright. Stephcnson and Co.. has been I for some time in :i private hospital in , Sydney. Mr. L. .1. B. Urnnt, instructor at Whaj ngarei for the Department of Agrieul- ? turo, has been transferred to Palmerston | . I North as supervisor of settlement* of ! p| returned soldiers. 11 Mr. Herbert Booth, youngest son of c the late founder of the Salvation Army. '■ is expected to reach Auckland in April next year. He. will conduct an evangop list ir campaign in the Dominion, and (1 should reach Wellington in January,

Colonel J. R. Hume, who resigned evmninnd of Wellington military district on account of 111-haul til, was in command of Auckland military district at the out ! break of the war. lie was at one time lin charge of tlie Permanent Artillery at ; Fort <- autley. I Lieutenant-Colonel E. T. Hulbert, ! D.5.0., son of a former Mayor of Christchurch, is in command of ;he troops re--1 turning by the transport ElltMiga. He left with the Main Body as a linutenant, ; and, with the exception of a short period of furlough in the Dominion, has been 'on service in Egypt, Uallipoli, and Palestine ever since. At a. meeting of the Auckland Drapers' α-nd Clothiers' Afsooiatrom last Thursday Mt. J. W. Court tendered Jus ■ resignation aa piresideait in view of his I retirement from business. Mr. ('. A. r Shanly, vi«e-president, Mis elected to till • the vacancy and Mr. George Tutt was elected vice-president.