PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16324, 23 September 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Excellency the Governor-General arrived in Christchurch from Wellington on Saturday morning, and was the guest of Mr and Mrs A. Boyle, Riccarton. To-day his Excellency will leave for Dunedin. The health of the Hon. A. L. D. Fraser, M.L.C., is at present causing his many frieuds some anxiety. Mr A. L. "Wills, third assistant master at the Addington school, has been appointed headmaster of the Glentunnel J school; Mr J. McCombs, M.P., whose name appeared in last week's ballot list, is forty-four years of age, and so will be classed C 2 automatically, under the present regulations. Mr C. W. Greon, secretary of the Canterbury Centre of the New ZealnniJ Returned Soldiers' Association, lias resigned that position in order to devote himself more particularly to organising} work. Mrs Saunders, of Clandeboye, has received word that her son, Sergt. William Saunders, has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery in one of the recent battles. Sergt. Saunders left with the Main Body. Liout.-Colonel J. E. Duigan, D.5.0., of New Zealand, has been in America on special services connected, it is understood, with British propaganda. He is now back in England, and is expectcd to return shortly to New Zealand to resume duties on the Staff Corps. Dr. Russel Rendle, of Ashburton, heard by the last mail that his second son, Hilary, who voluntarily went Home to qualify for service, when 18 years of age, has passed out of the Cadet Battalion in which ho was being trained, "top of his company," and has been gazetted to a Second Lieutenancy in the Devonshire Regiment, the one in which his father and older brother have both served. At the conclusion of the entertainment at the Opera House on Saturdayevening tho artists and stage hands assembled at the back of the stage to bid farewell to Mr P. Broderick, one of the stage assistants. In presenting Mr Broderick with a travellingrrutg t Mr Walter Helston, manager, mentioned 1 that Mr Broderick had been a faithful servant to the firm for eight years, and while regretting his departure wished him every success in his now sphere of life, that of a runholder in Southland. After Mr Broderick's health had been drunk with musical honours, tho recipient suitably replied.