PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2510, 10 July 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

! The new .Speaker of the "■ Legislative Council (the Hon; C. J. Johnston), will bo presented to His Excollency the Governor by the whole Council at 3 .o'clock-on Tuesday afternoon next-. " The Rev. F. Askew, vicar or - St. - Mark's; who is an inmate of . the Bowen Street Private Hospital, continues to make satisfactory progress towards recovery. . .. . : ; i Dr. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland, who 'was recently reported to be seriously ill in Sydney,'is .stated to ;be recovering satisfactorily. Messrs. O. P. Powles and R. ■E. Rawnsley wore yesterday elected members of the Wellington Diocesan Pension Fund Trust Board in place of Mr. 'J: M. Butt, retiring by rotation,: and Mr. J. S. Jameson, resigned; -i..-;.' ■■ Major Osburne-Lilly, of Pahiatua, las : . been accepted for service abroad, •and will go into camp in September. ' Mr: P. G. Withers, according to the latest' Gazette, is. being transferred from ,Ghristehurch 'to Wellington as 'iDeputy-Commissionor' of' Stamps. • ; Mr.; Johii. Pateri Findlay lias .been, •promoted to be Inspector of Stock at I'.almeriton North. . .■».-' -. 'Last night's Gazette, announces that "Mr. Geo. Neville Sturtevant, chief draughtsman in the State Printing and ■Stationery Department, has been promoted to' be chief draughtsman and ■overseer of the photo-litho. branch of Ithe Department. . Tho members of the ''Glad. Eye" r Comedy Company left for Sydney, py the Manuka yesterday. 'As from July 1, Mr. John Brown, ■B.Sc. (Agr.), N.D.A., has taken chargo of the Fields and Experimental Farms 'Division of the Department of Agriculture as Divisional Direotor. The scope of the division remains as hithertpj but ' for the sake of convenience .the' official ■designation has been abbreviated to /'Director of the Fields Division," and that form of address should bo used in future. The Seoretary of .the Department (Mr. : F. S. Pope), in thanking Mr. J. Duncan, who has carried out the duties of acting-director, jn . addiction to'his own work as Assistant •■Director, during tho past, 18 months, states the fact that Mr. Duncan's qualifications do not include a; special education in the science; of agriculture prevented his continuing in the capacity 'of Director,' but his ' wide; practical knowledge lias' enabled-him to act •as : locum, tenens with great satisfaction to the Department.

The Anglican Diocesan Synod yesterday tendered, its heartfelt sympathy to Mr. J. Kebbell and Mr. E; Balcombe Brown, members of Synod, who had lost Sons.in the cause of King and Empire.

.■ • Mr., T. 'A: Nicoll, a master at '.the.' Hastings District High' School,.. who loaves to-day with the non-coms for., the Bth' Reinforcements, .was met by. the scholars yesterday morning aiid : presented with a wristlet watdh. and' a safety razor.

Private Clarenc® M'Leod, : who has .been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, is a son of Mr. and Mrs.. Robert M'Leod, of Tuapeka. Mouth, Otago'. He is only 19 years of age. He tried to get away with the Main Body; but did not succeed. He was, ■however* subsequently | accepted; and left with tho First Reinforcements..

Mr. W. F. Tibbutt, the photographer, who has been laid aside witlil a serious ' affliction for some months, is slowly recovering, and there is a hope that lie' will in time regain his normal health'. , Yesterday lie/was .wheeled down to tho King's Wharf to inspect the Hospital Ship.