PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 201, 25 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. Charles Rhodes returned from Wellington yesterday. Mr. J. P. McMahon-Box is gazetted chief officer of police at Xiue Island. Superintendent X. Kiely. of the police, returned from Whangarei on Saturday night. The chairman of the Stratford Education Board (Mr. Robert Masters) is visiting Auckland. Mr. C. B. Morrison. K.C., lias, on I account of ill-health, resigned from the I Council of Victoria College. Wellington. j Mi. S. E. McCarthy, S.M., has been | appointed returning officer for the i Southern Maori .Electorate iv the place I of the late Mr. H. W. Bishop. I The Rev. E. E. Maiden, formerly chapI lain at King's College, returned by the Port Hacking after four years" service, mostly with the Second Auckland Regiment. Mr. Garth Gill, who has been appointed secretary to the -Have-lock Town Board, is a son of Major .1. S. Gill, of Westport, and serve! with the New Zealand Artillery in France lor close on three I years. j Adherents of the Morrinsville Baptist j Church bade farewell to Mr. A. Cutforth 'and family prior to their departure for Auckland. The Rev. Mr. Atkinson.ex--1 pressed regret at their removal from the j district. The Hon. G. J. Garland. M.L.C., Messrs. !F. Mander. M.P.. A. Harris. M.P., Major U.onion coates, M.1., and Vernon Reed leave for Wellington by the express tomorrow. The Hon. Sir F. Lang (Speaker of the House i went at the end oi the week. I The Rev. Thomas Tait, M.A., P.D., who I has -been appointed to a lectureship in ■ the art of public speaking by Sydney ; University, was for many years minister lof St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, [Christchurch. and acted as judge at Dunedin elocutionary competitions. Rev. E. L. Harvie, the new-inducted .vicar of St. Andrew's Church. Epsom, and Mrs. Harvie, were entertained at a i social gathering in the parish hall last Friday. Rev. T. O'C-allaghan presided. Short speeches of welcome were made by Mr. H. Frost, representing the church officers, Mr. A. J. Entrican. and . several of Mr. Harries brother clergy. 1 Mr. Harvie, in reply, outlined some of his plans for the future, and baid that he hoped to develop the work anion** j young people of the parish.