PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3008, 20 February 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Miss Phyllis llanify has been appointed accompanist to tho Wellington Harmonic' Society. Capt. ,1. W. Niesigli, of Sydney, who is oflioial secretary of tho Press Congress of the World, to be held in Sydney in 1918, and an ox-presi-dent of tho Australian Journalist Association, arrived in Wellington by tho Bivorina yesterday morning. Captain Niesigh, who h one , of tho bestknown pressmen in the Commonwealth, was for many years on the staff of tho "Daily Telegraph," and ho is visiting New Zealand in connection with tho arrangements for the representation of tho Dominion at tho Congress. Mr. W. S. Rowan, one of the military secretaries of the Y.M.C.A., on service ".with tho Australian troops, has been killed in. Franco. Mr. Howan, who was 28 years of ago, was on tho staff of the Y.M.C.A: afc Sydnoy, and later entered tho service of the Presbyterian Church as a home mission student. He was in the fourth year of his course when he left on Y.M.O.A. service as a secretary with the Australian troops abroad. Prior to leaving for Wellington, where he has received an appointment in the Lands and Survey Department, Mr. _F. Sandford was met by the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr. Brook) and the members of the staff of tho Hokitika office, and presented with a token of esteem. Mr. H. P. Poananga, LL.B. ; was on Saturday admitted by Mr. Justice Chapman as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr. Poananga, is on the staff of the Public Trustee in Wellington, and he was proposed by Mr. J. W. Macdonald, solicitor to the Puhlio Trustee. Mr. J. W. Kinniburgh, secretary of the National War Funds Council, will leave to-day on an official visit to West-land in connection with the various funds. The Hokitika Distriot Fund was handed over to the control of the council eome months ago, and the Westport Association has now decided to pay its funds over for administration by the council. A Press Association telegram from Dunedin spates: Major Hickey, D.5.0., has so far recovered from his illness as to be able to accept the appointment of A.Q.M.G., Dunedin, in. succession to Captain Fraser, who goes to Trentham preliminary to going to the front. A Press Association meseage from Invercargill records the death of Mr. John Graham Gow, formerly New Zealand Trade Commissioner, aged 67 years. Mr. Geo. Winder, who has not enjoyed good health recently, has recovered sufficiently to attend to hia. business. He wae given a warm welcome on attending the meeting of the council of the Central Chamber of Commerce helcT yesterday. An old identity of Masterton, k the parson of Mr. G. W. Soadden, died in the Greytown Hospital on Sunday at the age of oighty-two years. Hβ leaves a family of two sons and three daughters.

( Reference was made to the deaths of the Hons. Robert M'Nab and Sir Geo. M'Lean at yesterday's meeting of the council of the Central Chamber of Commerce, and votes of sympathy with the relations were passed by all the members standing. The president (Mr. C. M. Luke) said that Mr. M'Nab had been 0110 of the most promiaenfc men in the national life of New Zealand. Mv. Luke said that ho had been a colleague in the Legislative Council \for sevon years of tho late Hon. Sir Geo. M'Lean, who was a man of largo, generous temperament, and onn who was keenly interested in the welfare of tho Dominion.