PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3012, 24 February 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

• Sir Francis Bell, of Lands, is on a visit to the Cliitha '.district,in. Otago, on Departmental business". The Hon. G. W;-Russell went south to Christchurch last night..: He expects to return on Wednesday. The Hon. W. Fraser has gone to' tlie West Coast. : ; : The Hon. J. A. Hanan returned from Napier last evening. A Press Association message from Sydney -last evening recorded the death of Mr. W. A. Gibbs, Sydney manager for the New Zealand National Insurance Company, after over 40 years' service. The. lato Mr. Gibbs was, when in. New Zealand some years ago, very prominently identified : with Association football, and took » keen interest ,in ■fostoring the ■ game; especially in the schools. ' Sir Ernest Shackleton left for Lyttelton last night by the ferry steamer. He has arranged to deliver a lecture, in Christchurch to-night; and will then proceed to Timaru arid Duuedin. Mr. A. J. Talbot,■■Superintendent of the Chief Telegraph Office, -goes on annual leave to-day, and will visit Lakes Wanaka, and Wakatipu.' -'During his •absence Mr. Charles Treweek will act as superintendent. Tho flag of the local office of the. New Zealand Shipping .Company.flew at half-mast yesterday as a mark of respect to the l«te'Mr..:H, P. Aynsley, a director-'of the company, who died at Christchurch -on Wednesday. , Mr. H. Stanley Coffin, of North Tokima, Washington, U.S.A., and his family aro" visitors to Now Zealand. Mr. Coffin is president of the Romnoy Sheep Association : of America, and,is visiting the Dominion .to buy stud sheep. ■' At yesterday's session of the Methodist Conference a motion was carried cxprossivo of sympathy with the Rev. G. W. J. Spenco (Auckland) In his present serious illness. There left bv Thursday's steamer, for Sydney Mr. Robert Bctts, secretary of. the Colonial Ammunition Co., Ltd., London, and Mr. Arthur J. Cartwnght, assistant manager of tho company s works in -Australia. Mr. Bettes has been horo on a visit of inspection of tho company's Australian and New Zealand works.. 'He leaves Melbourne for London early in March.. ; -

At tho conference of the Society for the Health oi Women and Children yesterday reference was made to the deaths of Nurses Harold (Wcstport) and Currie (Hawora)., Tlie Central Council was instructed'to formulate a scheme for a memorial to Nurse Harold and submit it Jo''the branches.

•The resignation of Miss Hunt, from the teaching staff of the Wellington Girls' College, was, accepted by the col« lege governors at yesterday's meeting of the board. Mrs. Hornby, 159 Vivian Street, lias received official 'word, that her son, Private A. Hornby, was' killed in action in France on November 21. Private Hornby, who was born in Invercargill, was educated at the Port Chalmers Grammar School. He left with the Main Australian Forces, arid was wounded twice at Gallipoli, and invalided to England. Eventually, he was sent to France,- where he met his tfeath. His elder brother left Wellington with the Fourteenth-Reinforce-ments, and is'now serving in France.