PERSONAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 7, 8 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Detective-Sergeant A. Ward, of Napier, who has-been promoted to the posi-! tion of chief-detective at Wellington, is expected to take up his flew duties at the end of the present week. Rev. D C. Bates, Government Meteorologist, who has been in Europe, attending the Meteorological Conference, is a ■passenger on the Port Pirie, ■.γ-iieh is due at Auckland on Sunday cr M nday. Miss Rattray and Miss Gcr n, of Dunedin, have each received from Their 'Majesties the King and Queen of Belgium, the tronze medal of Queen Elizabeth, with accompanying diploma, in recognition of services rendered for tho Telief of distress in Belgium during the war. Cabled advice has. been received at the office of His Majesty's Trade Commissioner, that Mr. K. W. Dalton, who has been paying an official visit to the United I Kingdom, was to eail on hie return! journey to New Zealand on January 3, j by R.ILS. Mantua, and should arrive in Wellington towards the end of February. Mr. C. F. 'Bickford, for the ptst three years honorary financial organiser to the Auckland "joint Committee of the Brifrisflx Red Gross and Order of St. Jtthn, leaves to-day for Sydney, by the Maheno, en route to England. He has been appointed New Zealand delegate to the International Red Grose Conference,! which opens at Geneva on March. 2. Mr. (Bickford will return to Auckland Jn a. few months' time, before Snally leaving New Zealand. Mre. •rckford remains in New Zealand for the present.