PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15156, 21 December 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr T. G. Lewis o f the Invereargill Corporation staff, has been appointed Town Clerk of t!io borough of Mornington.

Dr. 11. J. Thacker M.P. for Christchurch Ka*t, left on Saturday evening for Wellington.

Mr P. C. Webb. M.P. for Grey, was among Saturday night's departures for Wellington.

Mr Robert Fletcher, M.P- tor Wellington Contra!, will not again etand for tho chairmanship of the Wellington Harbour Board. Ho will, however, contest the Mayoralty of Wellington a: the next election.

Private advice has been received in Christchurch that Captain W\ J- Shannon, of the 10th Lancers, who was reported missing, is quite srifo. Captain Shannon was 0:1 Lord Islington's staff when he was Governor of New Zealand.

Mr R- G. Thomson, of tho "Hansard" staff, who is acting as shorthand report* r to tho Valuation Commision. arrived in with the members of tho Commission on Saturday night.

A Victoria Cross hero. Mr John Ke:iriek, died at, Miii-chisori. Nelson, last week. Jit tho advance*} age of 79. In his younger days Mi Konriek sorvwl in the Navy, and after iiis Jischarge- omigated to New Zealand. His Victoria Cross was awarded to him after the Maori war for conspicuous bravery in <-*arryit!g a. wounded officer to safety undor a heavy fire. For many years prior to his death Mr Kenrick had led a solitary life in a -whare neartho Maruta Gorge, earning; a livelihood by gold-dig-Mr Fred. Hills and Miss Isabel Curtie, both of Colykni, were married at St. John's Church, Foilding, on Friday, by tho Key. A. ,S. Junes Jones. Tiie ".Foilding Star" states that it is a r«vmarkablo fact, in connexion with tho wodding that tho bridegroom's father (the Rev. J. W. Kills) is a missionary in Samoa, ■where lie liaa expressed devout thankfulness at the change of government; liis oldest brother is n member of tho British Army Medical' , Corps, and was captured -with somo wounded soldiers whom ho -was attending during the retreat from Mons. and is now a prisoner in Germany: and tho bride's brother is with the Australasian Expeditionary Force in Egypt.

One of the masters of the Auckland Grammar School, Mr A. D. Dinncen, contemplates proceeding Homo to be trained as an aviator, with tho object of entering the British Army Hying Corps for service in tho war. At Wednesday's meting of the Board of Governors of tho school, tho headmaster, Mr .). W. Tibbs. supported Mr Dinneen's application for leave of absence for this purpose. He siatod that the applicant had been eight years on the school staff and had always taken an active part in the cadet movement. The majority of tho governors present expressed the view that any man desiring to fight for his country should be e-n----eouraged, though Mr J. H. Upton raised the point that n schoolmaster's place was hard to fill. It was agreed to grant Mr Dinneen ono year's leave of absence on half-pay.