PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15699, 19 September 1916, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Lieutonant-Colonel James Murphy, Officer Commanding the Ist (Cantorbury) Territorial Regiment, left last evening for the North, en route for Trontham Camp. \ . J Our Dunedin correspondent telegraphs that Mr H. YV Widdowson, 'S.'M., will be-appointed chairman of the Military Service Appeal Board for tho ."Otago district..

Lieutenant-Colonel Mclnncs, tho newly-appointed Chief Secretary for tho Salvation Army in New.Zealand, arrived by the Niagara from Vancouver yes.fercjay. Prior to leaving Manchester, Licutenant-Cobnel Mclnnes called on all the New Zealanders who wero in , hospital there.

■ A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that the passengers'by 'nSL 8 8 ara ' r ? m Vancouver include Commander Armstrong and threo who are touring tho Empire with anew to arranging a Motor Patrol Ro**ttve. They' are proceeding to Wellington to confer with the Government. .yw>4M?« o ,closo of his lecture on "Fruit Growing" last night, Mr W. J. CourOrchardisfc, was prcJ 6 **?" k y tho class ho has been instructing in'orchard work with a silver cigar ;*##» ** r Berridgo, assistant instructor, with a silver cigarette case, and Mr .'*WWV-who had placed a room at the ■disposal of tho cla&e, with a silver fruit sund. •-.•■■■

V'-'iJ?^ v^£, ca M e d. ,a d T ico has been recoiv,m Gfiristchurch that Regimoutal : : }P«rtermaster-Scrgeant It. H. Allen, ♦Utttorbury Infantry Battalion, has rcSHVt a ""omission. Lieutenant Allen v*™- New Zealand with the Main Body ..<«,tha Expeditionary Force, and saw semee throughout tho Gallipoli cam- £???•' «? e nas DeGn wJth his regiment ■ « tno Western front since April. tku—°°. \ ha ? h* 2oll received that the Service Cross hag been awarded to Lieutenant-Commander W. "iphert, who is widely-known in New *ewand ports as chief officer of tho AewZealand Shipping Company's Re■E?V r.-K a lto - vnl Nav y IWrve ««?, Mr Olphert offered his services to «« Admiralty upon tho outbreak of yiXLi • .placed in command of a Wtrol yacht m the Irish Sea. Lieu'w n rY° mmand€r Olphert is a son-in-it » -Y r R -' c - Tennent, manager of of New South Wales at In-