PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3024, 10 March 1917, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Harold Beauchamp, chairman of tho Bank of New Zealand, left for Sydney by tho Moeraki on Thursday. Sir Ernest Shackleton was a passenger by tlie same steamer. e

Mr. J. 11. Russell, brother of tho Hon. G. AV. Russell, died at Damievirko yesterday afternoon, after a very brief illness. The late Mr. llussell was well known as a journalist, having been in partnership with Mr. T. L. Buick as owner of a. newspaper in Dannevirke until a few years ago.. Tho Hon. G. AY. Russell, who had gone to see his brother, will .not now return to Wellington until Sunday.

Mr. J. 0. Shorland, of Island Bay. has acceded to a request that he should offer himself for election to the City Council at the forthcoming election.

Mr. Alec. Lorimore, the representative of the Lasky Famous Players, and Artcrafts Film Corporations, who has achieved big picture interests in Australia, will arrive here on Monday next from Sydney. Mr. Lorimore's companies are represented in New Zealand by the Paramount Service of New Zealand, Ltd. •

Mr. Lancelot A. Rogers, of AVellington, was yesterday admitted by Mr. Justice Stringer as a solicitor.

At the Congregational Union meeting yesterday, on the motion of the Rev. G. .Heighway, seconded by the Hon. G. Fowlds,. it was resolved: "That this council of the Congregational Union in annual meeting assembled, congratulates the Rev. AY. M. Grant, the present chairman, on the completion of. forty years in the happy and hallowed foil .of the ministry _ of our Church. It places on record its deep appreciation of his personal worth, and rejoices to 'hear that the marked day was recently noted by -lfy fellow ministers in Port Chalmers to express their deep affection for him as a trusted leader, as well as to testify to the unbounded confidence with which he ia regarded by all sections of • tho in that town. To Mr. Grant, warmest ' thanks are hereby tendered for the manifold ministry that has thus won such conspicuous success, and the united prayer of this council is-that ho may he still long spared to carry on the work so his heart among the people by whom he is so unfeignedly and genuinely loved for his faithfulness of life and untiring service."

In the report on the Pastors' Provident Fund presented to the Congregational Union yesterday it was stated that the board's solicitor, Mr. W. E. Moore, after two failures to be accepted for foreign service with the New Zealand Forces, went to England and enlisted. He was promoted from private to 2nd lieutenant in tile E..F.A., and has been awarded the ( Military Cross "for great courage and'skill and splendid example."

The following Police Force changes are announced: — Senior-Sergeant Treanor, of Newton, Auckland, retires on superannuation after forty-three years' service in the force. SeniorSergeant Treanor served for a long time with' distinction in the Armed Constabulary Force. SeniorSergeant Rutledge, formerly well known in Mount .Cook, Wellington, and for some years in charge of the chief station, Auckland, as senior sergeant, takes Senior-Sergeant Treanor's place. Senior-Sergeant formerly on the staff of the Commissioner of Police, and lately_ stationed at Hawera, will take Senior-Sergeant Rutledge's place. , Sergeant Waterman, Auckland, transfers to Ponsonby, vice Senior-Sergeant O'Grady, transferred to Waihi. Sergeant Fraser, Napier, goes to the Thames, vice Sergeant Orean, recently transferred to Mount Cook. The above changes will involye a number of other transfers, which, however, have not yet been decided upon. .

Reference was made at this week's meeting of the Wellington Branch of the Patriotic Society to the approaching departure of Mr. E. Ti Doddrell, the vice-chairman, for Gisborne, and on the motion of the chairman (Mr. T. M. Wilford, M:P.), seconded by Mr. James Macintosh, it was resolved: "That this society accepts with very niuch regret .thS resignation of Mr; E. T. Doddrell, ' vice-chairman of • the Patriotic Society, and desires to place on record the high appreciation held by tlie society of Mr. Doddrell. The society feels that the work/done since the war by Mr. Doddrell is deserving of the thanks and appreciation of the citizens of Wellington, and that this society feels that it and kindred societies are suffering an irreparable loss in Mr. Doddrell's departure." In I speaking "'to the motion, Messrs. Wilford. Macintosh, Joseph Lewis (secretary), and Brownrigg referred to Mr. Doddrell's fine work in patriotic matters, and expressed the belief.that he would do equally as well in that connection in Gisborne. Mr. Doddroll made a suitable reply. Mr. Doddrell is to manage the business of , Adair Brothers in Gisbbrno. .