Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16848, 31 May 1920, Page 6

Personal Items.

Sir Heaton Rhodes and Lady Rhodes were passengers from the North by yesterday's ferry steamer.

Senior-Sergeant Cummings, of the local uoiico loive, who nus i.ee.i seriously ill with pneumonia during tho past few weeks, is stated to bo slcivly improviug.

Mr R. K. Cameron, manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company's oranch at Tokomaru Bay for about eight years, has been promoted to the i>unedm office.

A London cablegram says that Dr. J. T. "Wilson, Chilis Professor of Anatomy in the University of Sydney since IS9O, has been elected to tho Professorship of Anatomy at Cambridge University.

The name of Captain T. E. Y. Seddon, 13th New Zealand Regiment, has been brought to tho_ notice of tho Secretary of for War for sen-ices rendered in the United States in connexion with the war, and that of Mr E. H. Colbeck 0.8. E., M.D.. F/R.C.l\, for valuable services in the United Kingdom.

Messrs H. J. Otley (chairman), F. H. B. Sorensen (members), and W. S. "W harton (secretary), of tho North Canterbury Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, left 0 n Saturday night for Wellington to attend a conference of representatives of the Hospital Bonrdsof tho Dominion. Mr T. D. Bo:tg, another member of tho Board, leaves for Wellington this evening.

General Sir William Birdwood will arrive in Christchurch from tho North on Tuesday morning. June Sth. Ho will bo tendered a civic reception at. tho Theatre Roya] at noon on the Tuesday, and in tho evening will bo entertained at n. smoke concert, to bo given bv tlio OfHr-ers' Club and tho Returned* Soldiers' Association. General Birdwood, who is accompanied by Lady Birdwood, will leavo for Ashburton bv the first express on Thursday, Juno iOtli.