PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3142, 21 July 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Venerable Archdeacon Frank George ]svjms, chaplain to the Forces,, second class, has been awarded a Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Officers' Decoration for having a total coinihieeioued service of 20 years and 159 days. • ■ ■

Mr. Arthur Varney, <of Wellington, who left in August of last year to visit the New Zealand troops in France and England as supervising' secretary to the Y.M.C.A., lias returned. He and Mr. H. SI. Smeeton, of Auckland (who Meat to Europe as a Y.M.C.A. Commissioner), are to Telate their experiences at the Town Hall on Thursday evening next.

Advice lias been received by Mrs. Kin" of Wellington .Terrace, that her son, Sergeant A. H. King, has been "ranted a commission. Lieutenant King left as a private in the First Reinforcements, and has been in active 6ervice constantly up to the present. Before enlisting he was a member of the stnif of the accounts department of The Dominion'.

v The Rev. Cauon Wollstein, vicar oE Spring Creek, Marlborough, has been appointed locum tenens in charge- of All Saints' parish, Nelson, during the absence in camp of the vicar, the Rev. ,T. A. Rogers, who has been granted leave of absence for one vear or 6uch less term as the military authorities mny require ljim for.

Mr. Ernest Empson, of Cliristchurch, who acted as pianoforte soloist and accompanist to Mr. Paul Diifault throughout the French-Canadian tenor's tour of. the East, has returned to New Zealand.

Mr. George Dash, Mayor of Wai mute (South), is a visitor to Wellington.

Mr AY. D. AVarren, editor and manager of "the "Lake- Wiilcatipu .*Jjail," (jiieenstown, lias been passed as fit, and will probably go into camp with the 31th Reinforcements;

Mr. H. B. Lneto, of the teaching staff of Christ's College, goes into camp early next week (says the Christchurcn "Press").