PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16299, 24 August 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir William Eraser, Minister of Public Works, left for the North last night.

Mr J. C. E. Turner, who for the past eleven years has been on the staff of tho "Gisbdrno Times," has been appointed manager of tho "Wairoa Guardian."

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that Dr. A. W. T. O'Sullivan, District Health Officer for Otago and Southland, has been transferred to Auckland, and will be succeeded in Dunedin by Dr. I. E. Faris, an Otago University graduate. Both are returned soldiers.

The following appointments of officers to King George V. Convalescent Home, Rotorua. are notified: —Captain (temp, lieut.-colonel) A. S.. Herbert M.8., N.Z. Medical Corps, to be Principal Medical Officer, and to command N.Z. .Medical Corps Detachment (April Ist). Major (temp, lieut.-colonel) H. O'B. Deck, M.8., N.Z. Medical Corps, to be Surgical Specialist and Second in Command, N.Z. Medical Corps Detachment (Juno Ist). Lieut, (tomp. captain) T. W. Maben, N.Z. Medical Corps, to be Quartermaster and Adjutant (August 3rd).

Advice has been received by Mr J. Gray, 220 Moorhouse avenue, that his son, Staff-Sergeant G. F. Gray, has been awarded the Military Service Medal. Staff-Sergeant Gray is a member of the Headquarters Staff of the 22nd Army Corps, Franco. He was, prior to enlisting, for many years with Messrs Kippenborger, Franks, and Hunter, and Jeft with the Bth Roinforcements. His brother, Lieut. E. P. Gray, returned from the front in March but has since been posted to tho 42nd Reinforcements. Another brother, Private E. L. Gray, is with the New Zealand Forces in France.

At Thursday's meeting of the Otago Education Board sympathetic reference was made to the death of Mr Michael Fraer, late of Kaiapoi. Mr Borrie Baid that, as ono of the oldest members of the Board, he had been asked to move :» resolution. Mr Fraer sat on the Board for many years, and he thought he was safe in saying that he had the interests of education at heart, and this was sustained to the last. He moved: "That the Board wishes to place on record its regret at the death of Mr M. Fraer, who was one of the members of the first Otago Education Board, and whose interest in education was unabated until the end. The Board desires the secretary, on its behalf, to express its sympathy with the members of Mr Fracr's family in their bereavement." The Hon. D. T. Fleming, in seconding the motion, corroborated. th<s remarks of Mr Borrie as to Mr Fraer's keen interest in education. Tho motion was carried.