PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16528, 21 May 1919, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr T. A. B. Bailey, S.M., | Bailey, left on Mont-ay fo turn about Auckland. They expect to return a j the end of the month. -at Lieut.-Colonel Cossgrove, ■' V ; n piceent visiting the scout in the North Island. He .s due b»ck Christchurch about the -4th .Air John Fuller, sen., who has staying in Christchurch for three weeks, will leave for' , "j n to-morrow on the way to his Auckland. , Mr I. Woolf, late of Sumner, has received -.V t ] lQ second son. Ernest, who left p or f 17th Reinforcements, is duo at; ru. Chalmers by the Tofua on Jur.o - Mr T. L" Oswin, who has nected with the Valuation Department i»t Invercargill for tho past - . ' ' and for 15 years has been officer i charge, has been transferred w Dunedin. Mrs E. R.. Good, of Rangiora, lef for Blenheim Yesterday, " liere h . l?r 1 S( T' Mr E. L. Good, is to be marriedl tomorrow to Miss Eila R ut j ier , for i daughter of Mr E. S. Rutherford, of Kekerangu. Mr<? Good was accompa by the Misses Good. Mr Douglas Porter, who is connected with the Egypt General Mission, wtiicn lias become familiar to many in i city through the work of brothers, Messrs William and Arthur Bradley, among our soldiers iu kgyp » is at present paying a visit to V V? _ church, and will giyo addresses in-the city during the coming week.

The Rev. Dr. Abraham, who for more than 35 years has be-on_ minister of tie P.ourke street congregation (.Melbourne), has sent in his resignation, but intimated to his executive that he will perform ministerial duties until a successor has been appointed. His retirement f.-om active duty will mean a great loss to Australian Jewry.

Mr A. S. Evans, secretary of Messrs Common, Shelton, and Co., of Gisborne, i has been appointed manager of Mastcrton branch of tho New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company, Ltd., and Mr George YV. Frier, second in charge of the North Otago Farmers' Co-op. Association, has been appointed manager of tho Wanganui branch of the same company.

Mr F. M. Cork ill, Asso. M. Inst. C.E., late of Canterbury College, having obtained his discharge from tho New Zealand Engineers in England, has been appointed au assistant engineer in the Public Works Department of the Federated Malay States. With Mrs Corkill he has now settled at Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, and is engaged on antimalarial drainage work under the Malaria Advisory Board.

A Wellington telegram states that Major Percy do Bathe Brandon has boon appointed ''Hansard" supervisor in succcssioit to Mr Marcus F. Marks, who is now Government Printer. Major Brandon, who was a member of the "Hansard" supervisor's staff in pre-war days, left New Zealand with tho Main .Body as field cashier, and was with the *New Zealand Forces until a few months ago.

Thero was a very large gathering of the staff of the A.M.P. Society in Wellington a few days ago to bid farewoll to Mr J. R. Cornish, who has been granted six months' leave of absencc, prior to his retirement in November next on superannuation, as he will then have reached tho ago limit of tho Society's by-laws. Mr Cornish was appointed to the staff in July, 1838, and ho* therefore beon in the service just on 31 years.

Mr George H. Christie, who has been appointed an auditor for the Department of Imperial Government Supplier, was on Saturday last made the rocipicnt o £ a very handsome oak smoker's cabinet from the staff of Aitehison, Steans, and Co., Ltd., of which ho had been secretary for a number of years. Mr Steans, in making tho presentation, oxpressed the best wishes of the staff for his future welfare and success. Mrs Christie was also presented with a very handsome silver-plated epergno.

Word has been received through tho Naval Adviser, _ Wellington, that Chief Motor Mechanic Roland A. Meyor, of Christchurch, is a passenger by tho Tofua, due to arrive at Port Chalmers about the 27th inst. One of the most exciting events of his career wag tho raid on Zeebrvgge, in which tho launch he was on became tho first victim of th.> murderous fire opened by the 6hore batteries on their being discovered. The launch wag just ahead of tho Vindictive, making the smoke screen for her, and had got within 200 yards of tli» molo when a shell toro through tho engine-room, taking the controls clean out of his hands. The shell, exploding upwards, blew the bridge out of . tho launch, killing tho commanding officer, the boatswain, and one of the deck hands. How the two engineers escaped is miraculous. After endeavouring and fir.dinsj it impossible to pave the launch, they made sure she would not fall into the hands of the enomy by blowing the bottom out of Trer. and the survivors wore picked tip by one of tho destroyers. ]Wo?hnnJe Meyor was mentioned ;n dfwontehes, and on returning was aprointfid to another launch attached to Admiral Bent+y'g fleet, and was present ai the surrender of the Gorman fleet.