Personal Items.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 10

Personal Items.

♦ •■* J Guests at vVarner'-* Hotel icchida) ,'.-; Messrs R. Pvrno (Melbourne* and J, "" W. Gosling (Dtmedin:. ;■..] Recent arrivtJs at the Clarendon} -3 Hotel indude Messrs S. Hopkirk fWel- "'";1 lingtoni. R. K. Morrison -'Auckland) '; and J. McMeekin tTimaru'i. ' : Mr John Fan-oil has taken over tat ' management the Royal Comic Onera Company, which commences a New \ Zealand tour at Auckland thte evening \ A Sydney cable states that Mr and Mrs T. r. List, or N>w Plymouth, arc passengers by the Mahenc, which sailed 's. on Wednesday. | Mr C. P. Hainsworf.il, general man» I ager for tie I*> 33 New Zcahtnd and i\ South Seat- Kxhibitior. armed from the ,'■: I north on Wednesday. He sees' on to . I Dunedin tc-day. <!, I Mr K. A. Sliep.ird. who i> controlling | the New Zealand tour of the ,T. <g 1 Williamson H;i\an.i Band and Vaufe 1 ville Company, arrives from the nortfc I this morni'ig.

Mr r,. M. Maednnald. of fhristJ church, who has been on :i visit faF.ngland. lias; reached Melbourne, fgi i* due here early in the New Year.lE MacdonaW spent Christmas with s£f Aiistaic Clarke. >%\ Messrs R. .T. Yeomans ('Fvdner) JI W. Docker (Sydnev\ P. McKay "(W«J. lington). A. L. Schloss (WeJlinsrton), 8. W. Peiuycross (LondonV T. Tat* (Tirr.aruK C. White Parsons (Matter* toiT. and R. MoC-rath i Wellington} am at the United Service Hotel. Mr ('. H. Stcevens. who several years was prominent in football circles in Napier, has resigned his posy. tion as chief engineer of the time* Co."s Katoa. in order to take up agoation with the Hawke's Ray farmer** Freezing Co.. at Wbakatu. Colonel T. W. McDonald, who was waited upon recently by a deputation and asked to stand as a candidate for the Wellington Suburbs seat) ';> at the next general election, has re- J plied stating that while he thinks ho f will be able to accede to the deputa- | tion's reauest, he would prefer to -i\ defer replying finally until after the <j Christmas holidays, when he hopes to 1 lie in a position to speak quite dc- *l fuiitelv. ■, The committee of St. Matthew" s ' Victory Memorial Scliool has been notified that the Diocesan Education Board ■ has appointed Mr J. H. Worboys t* the position of headmaster of the s<-hool, rendered vacant bv the resignation of Mr K. W. H. Ellicotl. Mr Worboys holds an excellent record of service in State schools, and will be- ■> known to many people in Canterbury at 4 headmaster of the Kilbirhie school. Wellington, from which he retired \ about two years ago. I Dr. H. L. Russell. Dean of ti»l > Faculty of Agriculture at Wisconsin! University, and Professor Theodora' Macklin, who occupies the Chair of. Agricultural Economics in tho CbUega of Agriculture connected with the same University, were in Christchurch oil Wednesday and Thursday. On Wedne*dav they visited the dairying district! J around the city, including HahraeQ, «j Taldhurst, and the dairy farm attach- j ed to the Sunnyside Mental Hospital* They left for Wellington last night. [ A Melbourne correspondent write* $, under date 15th inst: One of the governing directors of the Hugh J« .; Ward Theatres Pty., Ltd., ftllen* tj | Theatres. Ltd., and John Fuller and <i Sons, Ltd.—Mr John Fuller—is at pre- T sent in Melbourne supervising Mel- 4" bourne attractions, and is due to leave) •, • Melbourne at tho end of this month * when he proceeds to New Zealand to* ,i supervise personally the New Zealand • productions of tho new firm, _ and to final iso arrangements in connexion with the building of a new theatre in Christ- c ">j church on the site of the old Colosseum/ ,- > Mr Fuller will then visit all four milil'L \ centres in connexion with future visiW||| of the Hugh J. Ward attractions. IP It is officially gazetted that t''jj| command of the 2nd Battalion EasflL u Yorkshire Regiment has been tjMfepfk 1 over by Lieut .-Colonel Guy W. Gmm, | ! D.5.0.. who was absorbed into tbfccjct y I'jth Foot on the disbandment ofrtbe r | Royal Minister Fusiliers in 1922 (*Mm r <q .ai.r London correspondent). Colonet -m <f xldes went to South Africa with iiew. Zealand contingent as a private* *$ and he was gazetted into the Recnlar i% Army in the field (Royal Munster low '{m liers) in May. 1900, being meatittllt4|®: in dispatches by Lord Kitchener. 1910 he became Captain, and at JWf|s| beginning of 1915 he waß Major Lietrteßant-Colell» 1915-19). He wis posted to the BW::f§S Yorkshire Hegiwent in 1923. In late war Colonel Geddes was Major successively of the 171st trv Brigade, 47th Brigade. Ist monary Cyclists' Brigade, 3rd lian Training Brigade, and of a BjsljlM servo Formation at Home. He was on the staff of the Bth Division, &SESM received his D.S.O. in the campaign. It is understood that ' i '2 , Colonel Geddes is the first' New «**Jjl[9 laTider to obtain command of a tish battalion. IraM