PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16118, 24 January 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Gerald Stead was a passenger from Wellington by yesterday's ferry steamer.

Mr J. P. W. Lee has been elected to the South Waimakariri River Board as representative of the Christc'.iurch N.E. suburban district.

Mr W. Downie Stewart. M.P., wlio is at present staying at the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, expects to return to Dunedin next month.

Mr J. A. Frostick, National Efficiency Commissioner for Canterbury, returned last evening from a visit to Timaru and Geraldine.

Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Weston, of New Plvmouth. will prcbably return to No.v Zealand in June. He has a stiff h:p joint, and has to remain a further four months in hosnital.

His Worship the Mayor will accord a welcome to Christchurch to Dr. Morrison, Political Advisor to the Chinese Government, in the City Council Chambers, at 12.30 to-day.

Mr F. S. Pope, Secretary of Agriculture. and Mr T. W. Kirk, Director of tho Orchards, Gardens, and Apiaries Division of the Deuartment of Agriculture, arrived in Christchurch yesterday and attended the Nurserymen's conference.

The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, Minister of Agriculture, arrived in Christchurch yesterday from Wellington for tho purpose of opening the conference of the Now Zealand Association of Nurseryman, and of enquiring into the wheat position.

Adjutant "\V. Avcnell, formerly in charge of the City Corps of tho Salvation Army, lias been transferred to Dunedin, and left for his new home bv yesterday's express. A number of Solvation Anny workers wez-o at the station to see him off.

_ A message from llotorua says that Senior-Sergeant Cunimings. wiio has been transferred to Christchurch after two and a half years' service i n Rotorua, was entertained at a largely-at-tended social last night, and presented with a silver salver. Mr Gardner, chairman of tho Chamber of Commerce, prosided.

Major and Mrs Johnson, Mount Torlesse, received a private cable yesterday. stating that their elder son, Sec-ond-Lieutenant Roger Johnson, 4th Hussars, has been promoted to firstlieutenant, and ha s been awarded thr. Military Cross i n '«c-gni-ion of his part m the recent fighting near Cambrai.

C - e J?^ oW ' n S changes in the Union .Steam Ship Company's service are t 1 , 0 ' ! -T. * resi; Associat on telegram from S^ hn u : ~¥ r D " Carter, of Greybas boen annomtod manager at \- ,JI \ r n n- succession to Mr Eva. Mr P. -n . Jcfierys, branch manager at New I lymnuth, Jins been appointed to Grev- '• and Mr T>. Morrison, subPlymouth. t<>nga ' goos 10 Xeu '