PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16402, 23 December 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

p The Hoi. G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, left on Saturday night 1 for Wellington.

Dr. J. W. Crawshaw, who was operated on for appendicitis at the Kaiapoi Nursing Home, was yesterday reported to be progressing favourably.

Mr E. S. West, M.A., late of King's College, Auckland, has been appointed English master at the Napier Boys' High School.

Mr E. P. Turner, engineer to the Christchurch Tramway. Board, returned to Christchurch on . Saturday after a trip to Australia on annual leave.

Mr A. J. Gillman, of the staff of the Napier Boys' High School, has been appointed to a position on the stafiE of the Otago Boys' High School to teach commercial subjects.

Mrs J. D. Paterson, of Hinds, has been advised that her son, Lance-Cor-poral D. T. Paterson, has been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry on the field of action.

A cable message from Sydney states that Captain Storkey, V.C. has arrived en route to his home' at Napier. He was welcomed by the "University representatives.

Mr P. Hwle, who has been appointed director of the branch-of Banks Commercial College which is being estab-

lished in Chris tchurch, arrived from Wellington on Saturday morning.

The Defence Department is advised that 21323, Sergeant-Mechanic Raymond George Goldfinch, formerly Feilding, and at present attached ~to the Royal Air Force, has been award-" ed the Royal Air Force Medal. .

Mr W. Barrmgton Miller, of Sydney, managing director of. the Union. Theatres, a director of Australasian Filmß, Ltd., and a enrolling hand in' many other motion picture ventures, is / retiring from active control of picture enterprises, on account of ill-health. Mr Miller, who is an ex-resident of Giff-. borne, and still has a number of inter- ; " ests in New .Zealand, proposes to spend some months in the Dominion prior to'. leaving on a lengthy trip to America,;. England, and the Continent. ,