PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2474, 29 May 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister has gone to Auckland to fulfil 6ome engagements in that district. On Monday he will open the new Mangere bridge, crossing an arm of Manukau Harbour between Onchunga and Onangere. It is situated in his own electorate. He will open the Waikato Winter Show at Hamilton on Tuesday, and earlier in the same day ho will unveil a memorial to Veterans of the Maori War at Ngaruaweliia.

The Rev. Archibald E. Hunt has received cable advice that his son Private A. J. Hunt, reported wounded, is progressing favourably.

The' death is announced in a Press 'Association telegram from Dun9dm of Canon Bryan Kin", for many years Vicar of St. Peter's, Caversham, who retired about three years ago. He was Grand Chaplain of the Masonic Grand Lodge, and was 68 years of age.

Mr. J. Craigie, M.P., of Timaru, is at present in Wellington.

Mr. R. W. M'Villy, Assistant-Gen-eral Manager of the New Zealand Railways, is visiting the South Island.

Dr. Hatherley, of Wanganui, and his daughter, Mrs. Hughes Johnson, are staying at the Royal Oak Hotel.

Mr. F. S. Pope, secretary of the Department of Agrioulture, Industries and Commerce, will arrive in Dunedin next Tuesday. lie will stay there until the end of the week, and then go on to Invercargill.- '

The Wyndham . Farmer records the sudden death, from heart failure, of Mr, Alexander Bell, a well-known settler, who was a native of Arbroath, Forfarshire, Scotland, and a colonist of probably over 40 years' standing.

Sergeant Watts, of Auckland, who left with the 11th, North Auckland, Mounted Rifles Regiment; has received a commission in the British Army. When the last mail left Egypt he was about to join his regiment. Lieutenant Watts has previously been on active service on the Indian frontier.

A cablegram has been received stating that Mr. Humphrey Clark, son of Mr. Aroh. Clark, of Auckland, has been posted to the Worcestershire Regiment, and that he has joined the Cambridge University Training Corps.

The Technical Education Board last evening congratulated the Hon. J. G. W. Aitken and Mr. W. S. La Trobe, two of its members, on their recent election to the Victoria College Council.

The many friends of Lieutenant-Col-onel G. S. Richardson, who was formerly artillery instructor in the Dominion, will (says an exchange} be pleased to hear that he is now assistant-adjut-ant and quartermaster-general for the naval division which left England recently for Turkey. _ Colonel Richardson did sterling work in connection with the retreat from Antwerp in the earlier stages of the war, when he was on the staff of General Paris.

. The promotion of Sergeant Charles Arthur Ford (son of Mr. Charles Ford, of New Plymouth) to record clerk in London, has now been confirmed. He left with tho First Expeditionary Force as a trooper in the Wellington Mounted Rifles. As a good all-round athlete he was very popularly known in Taranaki. F<?r some years he was with Messrs. Standish and Standish, and latterly with Mr. T. B. Crump, solicitor, Eltham.