PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 251, 22 October 1919, Page 9

PERSONAL.

Hon. ,1. B. Turner, of Suva, arrived at Auckland by the Niagara to-day. Mr. R. E. Isaacs is Acting Consul for Chili during the absence of Mr. E. A. < 'm ig. Mr. 11. I). Heather, c:ia:rman of tbe Auckland Harbour Board, is at present laid up with bronchitis. Mr. .1. 11. I'aterson, of A. H. Nathan, . Ltd., left for Sydney by the Ayrshire last evening on vacatton. Mr. W. A. Curtis takes up duty as organising teacher under Wnnganui Education Board on the Ist of November. Mr. ,1. 11. Cnrrad. clerk of the Court nt Nelson, has been IransT'rred to the legal branch of the Public Works Office. Major H.M. (Irillen. Director of Kinancial Services. N.Z. Pay Corps, has been promoted to lieutenant-colonel, i Mr. 11. .1. Court, a son of Mr. John j Court, returned home to Auckland to-day ;by the Niagara, having been four year's |on active service. j Hon. W. H. Triggs, M.L.C.. of ChristI church, and Mrs. Triggs. arrived to-duy |by the Niagara after an extended visit to iC.reat Britain and France. j Dr. Florence Keller and Mr. Ryd. J. | Harbult were last evening granted six und four months' leave of absence respecI lively by tbe Auckland Hospital and II hnritable Aid Board. His Majesty's Service Trade Oommis- | missioner for Australia. .Mr. S. W. B. j McGregor. leaves Wellington by the Maheno next Monday for the Commonwealth. Mr. Edward Beatty Alexander, who died this week at Epsom, was formerly manager of the branch of the Nntional ihank at Newton, resigning in 1808 to start as an auditor and accountant. Mr. P. 11. Upton, genernl manager of the South British Insurance Co., returned by the Niagara to-day from a j six months' trip. He went to London via Panama and returned through the I'nited States and Canada. Brigadier-General L. L. Wheatley. C.M.G., D.5.0., and bar. of the Imperial Army, arrived at Auckland by the Niagara to-day, en route for Australia. The general was formerly on the staff of Sir Walter Fuller. Governor of Victoria. Mrs. Wheatley. who accompanies him, is a Melbourne lady. Mr. J. Marsden Caughey, of the firm of Smith nnd Caughey, Ltd., arrived by the Niagara to-day after a business visit of some months to the I'nited States and Canada. Mr. Caughey spent some time iv San Francisco. Chicago, and New York, and returned by tlie CanadianPacific. Dr. J. D.. Campbell Duncan, who has been for nearly ten years medical officer in charge of Ilanmer Springs Sanatorium, has been appointed Government balneologist at Rotorua. Since September. 1015. Dr. Duncan has been serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces in Egypt, France, and at No. 2, New Zealand Oeneral Hospital, Wnlton-on-Thames. He was wounded in the Somme offensive of If) Hi. Prior to returning to New Zealand be was for some time nt the Royal Mineral Water Hospital. Bath, studying the latest meihod of balnei ology as practised there, and for some | time previous to his return to Now ; Zealand was associated with Dr. JonesI Llewellyn, of Tlarley Street, London, and iTlath, who is senior Oovernor of the Royal Mineral Water Hospital at Bath, land one of the leading authorities on rheumatism nnd chronic diseases in England. Since returning to New Zealand, Dr. Duncan has been attached to the King George V. Hospital as medical officer in charsrc of physio-therapeutics.

Authentic data respecting the deaths that have taken place under anaesthetis nt the Auckland Public Hospital during the period from September 1, 1010, to August 31, 1919. was supplied by Dr. C. E. Maguire, medical superintendent to the Hospital Board, at its meeting last evening. Tbe operations performed dur- ! ing that period totalled 9.989, and the .deaths under anaesthetics numbered seven. Mrs. F. C'arr Rollett having undertaken I the direction of the literary circle of tile i I Auckland Women's Club, a meeting' will ' jbe held next Monday, when intending j I members will be received, and suggestions invited for a programme. A paper ' jon " The Novel of To-day " will be read. Recent 'Magisterial utterances about the risk of boarding nnd leaving moving I trams nnd trains has resulted in action! being taken against persons who take' unnecessary risks in this respect. To-i flay a man, David A. "Wright, who had jumped on a moving train after having; been warned by a railway official to stay 1 off, was fined 40/ and 11/ co _;, by ilr.l J. E. Wilson, LS.M., for taking the chance. I 1 Joseph Hodgson, who bad persisted mi standing on a tram car platform until he' saw a. friend on the street, ami had i then jumped from the moving car, a^so i came before the Court. He had beci i rather unfortunate in his attempted ! acrobatic feat, for he failed to keep hi» I j balance and hit the pavement with his head, resulting in his having to visit I tlie hospital for repairs, which cost him j something; he was ordered to pay 21/ 1 Court and witness' coste.