Personal Items.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16701, 9 December 1919, Page 6

Personal Items.

Mr R. A. Malcolm bns been recommended for appointment n_s headmaster of tho Kainpoi District nigh School. Mr Thomas P. Cummins, Into editor of the "Green Ray." whieli was sensationally extinguished last year os a result of noliee eourt proceedings, has (telegraphs our Dunedin corr'spondent) .aoeento-l tho nesition of suWditof of the ''Cirev R : vor Argus," tho Labour daily on Oie We*it Coast. Mr Cummins 5s at present engaged in journalistio work in 3>unodin. Mr IT. IS. Falla bns tnkon over the position of perioral traffic manager to the Union Steam Ship Company nt hindquarters, in succession to Mr J. IT. C. 11-nd. Mr Dand left Dunedin yestordav on a visit to Wellington and Auckland. ITo expects to return South about tho middle of January, anil will subsequently take up his permanent residence in Auckland." In tho moulding shoo at the Hillside Workshops on Fr : d-y a presentation was made to Mr W. who is be'ng transferred to tho Addington Workshops. Tho presentation, which consisted of a ease of pipes, was made by tho foreman moulder (Mr R. ■Wellington'). who spo!;e in eii!ogist : o terms ot Mr Thompson's services nt Hills'do during tho last 11J years. Mr Thompson took an actiro nart in nil society matters at. the workshops. being nresiTTent of the S!'r-k Benefit Society, ann also an enthusiastic member of the A.S.It.S. I>r. L. IT. Booth, son of Mr G. F. Booth, rector of Peri Chalmers District H'gh School, has sailed in the RoTriiera to continue liii ptudies in tho Home Country. Dr. Booth landed as an ambulance man on Callip-li on Anzao I>ay, I'lls. ITe wns later recalled to eom»ilcto his studieu. after wbi'-h h" sorvrd as merlJoal officer with tho N.Z.E.F. in Samoa for 12 months. On In's return to New Zeolr-nd he was sent to Roto run, where he, as medica> officer, first at tho '.anatorium md then nt Ring Georre V. ITosnital. till hi* demobilisation in November of this year.