Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16882, 9 July 1920, Page 6

Personal Items.

Mr Robert Bell has been appointed by the Government a member of the Ashburton High School Board.

Mr James Little, the well-known sheep-breeder, was operated upon on Sunday night for appendicitis, and is now progressing favourably. Mr Little is 87 years of age.

Mr Howard Kippenbergor, late of Oxford, was recently admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court at Wanganui bv Sir Robert Stout, Chief Justice. He has joined the staff of Messrs Johnston, Mills, and Joyce, and will represent that firm in Rangiora.

The Tramway authorities hope to take possession of the Board's new offices in Cathedral square early in September. A memorial tablet of marble, on which will be graven the names of every employee of Board who went- to" the war, is being prepared, and it is intended to unveil it on the dav that the new offices are formally opened.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states, that Mr W. F. Alexander, for tiie past ten years editor of the "Timaru Herald," has been appointed to the editorship of the Dunedin "Evening Star." Mr Alexander will take up his new duties on December Ist next, at which date the Hon. Mark Cohen, the present editor, retires. 11

The Tramway Board has received the resignation of Mr H. A. de Courcy Browne, who has been traffic manager for several years, and who has acquired sn interest in a business in Sydney. Mr William Dick, who joined the old Tramway Company as a junior conductor, and who has worked his way up through various grades, has been appointed traffic supervisor. He will spend most of his time on the road, and other arrangements will bo made in respect of much of the office work that was done by Mr Browne.

Mr W. Harte, clerk of the court at Waimato, who has been transferred to Christchurch on promotion, was entertainod by his numerous Waimate friends at a smoko concert. Mr 8. I. Fitch, on behalf of those assembled, emphasised Mr Harte's many excellent qualities, and asked him to accept from them a parcel of nicolv-bound books. Several other speakers also testified to their guest's courtesy and thoroughness in his work, and to his excellent sportsmanship everywhere.