PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15605, 1 June 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

1 I>r. Moorbonse leave? to-day for Sydney, en route to New Guinea. Sir John Find'ay arrived from Wellington by yesterday's ferry steamer. The Hon. l>r. ]?. McXab, Minister of Justice, passed through Christchurch on his way North last evening. Miss Adela Tankhurst, v. ho was expected to arrive in Christchurch on Saturday, has l>eeu detained in "Wellington." and will reach this city on Tuesday.

The "YYnitara Mail" reports tho death of Mr George Jay, who was in his 9oth year. He was one _ot' the original lessees under the West Coast Settlement Reserves Act at. Waihi.

Mr W. Calleuder. general manager of tijp Bank of Now -Zealand, was a passenger by the Niagara, which arrived at Auckland on Monday from Vancouver. He had been on a health trip to Vancouver.

Mr H. A. Keeling, manager of the wool and produce department of Abraham Williams, Ltd., Wellington, has been appointed produce manager by the Bank of New Zealand, a position occupied by the late .Mr Morton Clark.

News has been received that Lieutenant Charles Lawrence Wardrop (son of Mr J. H. W. Wardrop, of the Lands Department, Wellington), who left with the Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, has been promoted to the rank oi captain. „

Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Essou, who was Assistant-Quartermaster-General to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, arrived in Wellington on Tuesday, having reached Auckland from Vancouver by the Niagara.

Mr John Barnett, of the Canterbury Central Dairy Company, who has for ntany years been a director of the South Island Daily Association, was yesterday re-elected to the position,' polling some 60 votes to 30 obtained by his nearest opponent.

The new Secretary for Education, Mr Frederick K. De Castro, has been chief clerk of tho Education Department since Sir Edward Gibbes, who retired yesterday, was appointed Secretary. Mr De Castro has been forty years in the Government service. Beforo joining the Education, Department in 1878, ha was for four years in the Treasury.

A cable message has been recoived in Auckland stating that his Lordship Bishop Cleaiy, of Auckland, arrived safely in Rome ,on Friday cm a visit ad limina to his Holiness the Pope. Bishop Cleary, who is accompanied by Father Kehoe, goes from Rome to Great Britain and Ireland, and is due hack in Auckland at tho end of the year.

The death took place on Wednesday evening at the Kumar a Hospital of a very old resident of the Stafford district, viz., Mr Henry Lougljlin. Deceased, who was a native of Ireland and 85 years of age, was by .trade a carpenter, and in the early days of Kumara assisted in the construction of several of the buildings. He has been resident in New Zealand for 47 years, and was a single man.

At the Addington School, yesterday afternoon, Mr P. C. Wilkins, a member of the staff who is leaving to take up the position of headmaster of the Waddington School, was presented, by the teaching staff with a handsome fruit and cake dish and by the boys of his class with a silver sugar-scuttle. The girls also presented him with a handsome salad bowl. In making the presentation, the headmaster, Mr W. N. Seay, eulogised the good work done by Mr Wilkins, and wished him all success in his new sphere.

. Mr Maurice O'Connor, of Hazelburn, who is well-knoVn throughout South Canterbury on account of his great interest in education, has just retired from the Hazelburn School Committee. He had been a member of ■ this committee for twenty-three years, and for .the greater part of that time was chairman. Mr O'Connor has established something like a record in attendance. as during that long period ho has only once been absent from a meeting.

Something of a New Zealand record has been established by Mr William Foster, of Timaru, who left with the Seventeenth Reinforcements yesterday (telegraphs our correspondent). Mr Foster has two sons in the fighting line and one in camp. His is a case in which fatly* and sons have all volunteered and been accepted. Prior to leaving, Mr Poster was presented with a purse of sovereigns and a number of useful articles by the directors and 6taff of Guinness and Le Cren, with which v firm he has been for the past 21 years, j