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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 83, 10 April 1922, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Major-General Sir. E. W. C. Chaytor will unveil a war memorial statue at Kaiapoi on Anzac Day. Mr. George Elliot, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, returned to Auckland yesterday from Wellington. Dr. Leatham, of New Plymouth, who has been on a visit to AucKland, leaves by tne boat this afternoon for New t-iymoutli. His Excellency the Governor-General wnd elected patron of the Navy League at the annual meeting held at Wellincton on rriday evening last. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., left Auckland last evening by the Main Trunk express for Wellington to preside over the fitting of the Post and Telegraph Appeal Board. Mr. G. Mitchell, M.P., has been nominated for the position of president of the Wellington Beturned Soldiers' Association, vice Mr. W. Perry, who is retiring. The Key. Howard Elliott is still indisposed as a result of an operation at Wellington recently and will be unable to resume active work for some time to come. , ; A Press Association message from j New Plymouth records the death on ! Saturday evening of Colonel -Messenger, aged BS. He had a distinguished military career from 1858 to 1903. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell was expected to arrive at Te Puke to-day, where he is being accorded a civic reception, lie is to make a visit to the soidier settlements in the district. Mr. Justice Chapman, who wa6 rej appointed to the Supreme Court Bench to act during the absence abroad of Sir I John Salmond, announced at Wellington I last Friday hie intention of retirement |at the end of the month. Captain E. Mousley, a member of the ; Brith-b. delegation to the Washington | Conference, who is in New Zealand on [ official business, will sail next week oa ! the R.M.s. Tahiti for England, via San Francisco.