Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18668, 17 April 1926, Page 14

Personal Items.

Dr. BrwrhW has returned from the aouth.\

Mr D. C. Burns was a passenger for Picton by the service ear yesterday. . Recent arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs A.Hall (Welhng- j ton), J. W. Praser (Hamilton), and t. F. Barton (England). Messrs G. H, Lander, J. M. Joshua J. J, Boyd, W. G: Oaull (Bradford, Q, C. „»[?**» (London), W. M. Clarry (Weltogton). J. LeggotVF. M. Shewan, C&WJr F Graham, J. Harper, and J. &• ginallwood (Feildiug) are among the guests at Warner's Hotel. Colonel J. K. Watson, ft retired officer of the Kiiig'a Royal ft,flw '. a guest at Government House, AqoKlapd, until he leaves with &r Ohage* FergußSon on a visit to the South Sea Islands, was aide-da-campjo Jiord &«- cbener for seven years. He served for some years in Burma, and was atteohed to the Egyptian Army from 1894 to 1899. During the greater part of that time he served as aide-de-camp to the Sirdar (Lord Kitchener) in tho Dongola and Khartoum expeditions. . On the outbreak of the South African War he accompanied Kitchener again as. aide-de-camp, ! returning to the Egyptian Anny in. 1901. He retired from the Army in' 1905, apd in the same year was appointed first aide-de-camp to the Khedive, a post which he held Until 1914. ColoneJ Watson again saw service in the first two years of the European war, being mentioned in'' dispatches and receiving the decoration of the Legion of Honour. For a period of three years from 1916 he was Military Attache to Egypt. Colonel Watson is making his first visty to the South Pacific, and on his return from the Islands early in June will tour New Zealand, and then pay a final visit to Australia before going to Africa. Mr Boy M. Brasted, who fc* the past five years has been' general secretary of the Auckland branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, has been appointed to the position of national general secretary of the National Committee of the Y.M.C.A.'s of New Zealand, in succession to Mr A. - Varney, • who resigned at the end of last year. Mr prasted, who is an Australian, commenced his Y.M.C.A. work in the Bedford, New York Association, where he was assistant secretary in 1989. The following year he was appointed boys' work secretary of the same Association. When the war broke out he returned to Adelaide, and was appointed military secretary for that Association, and served as a Y.M.C.A. seretary with the Australian Forces in France until 1918. On his return to Australia he was appointed actinggeneral secretary of the Melbourne Association. In July, 1919, he became national boys' work secretary on the sttff of tho Australian National Committee, and in 192] received a call to Now Zealand and became general secretary of the Auckland Association, which work he has carried out very successfully, instituting the Btg Brother Movement. Mr Brasted/ his tendered his resignation of the Auckland Association, and will shortly take np his duties in tho national office in Wellington,

and W. MoKail ft^^"fffl|^BH ton, en route for mil join tho MooltanJ£jH^^^^| choral about the *f the chairman (Mr jnlius as amqiWj(9|^^H