PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 211, 25 May 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James Allen is going to Auckland to attend the conference of tho Returned Soldiers' Association next week, leaving Wellington- on Thursday, ile has had to postpone his proposed visit to thfi uortU of Auckland. , Captain J. B. Hine, M.P. for Stratford, has reported at Fcatherston Camp on duly. Captain Hinu left New Zealand with tin- Seventeenth Mounted Rifles, and alter a lengthy service in Egypt has returned on duty. General Sir Alfred Robin, Commandant of tho Not Zealand Forces, Surgeoutienernl ,R. S. F. Henderson',' DirectorOncrul of Medical Services, Colonel A. T. Tate, Adjutant-General, and Captain J). 1. Bryan, Assistant-Military Secretary, have kit for Duucdin on Departmental duty. Mr. Walter Dinnie, ex-Commissioner, o£ Police, has been notified that his son, liml Lieutenant Donald Roy Dinnie, N.Z. Field Artillery, was admitted to hospital in Franc'e on May 12 suU'cring from fractured metacarpal. Lieutenant Dinnie was a clerk in the Public Trust Department, and was one of the first to volunteer for active service, having served eight months at Sninoa Jind afterwards proceeded to Egypt a'ld France with.the Ninth Reinforcements. •

Bishop M. Brodie, "Roman Catbolio Bishop of Ghristchurch, is visiting Australia.

Tho appointment of Colonel Ralph An-dei-son Chaffey to the position of lion. A.D.C. to the Governor-General and Commandex-in-Chief,. is promulgated in General Orders for this month. Colonel V. S. Smith has relinquished the appointment on transfer to the British. Army.

Thoie was a lareo Attendance nn Thursday at Hid funeral of the late Mr. Robert James HnniMiy, of Messrs: Taylor, 'Kainsay and Co. The Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Auckland, aiin other Master Plumbers' Associations were Tβ* presented, as were alco Mn c omY Lodge St. Andrew and the Loyal Antipodean Lodge <>f Oddfellows, The chief mourners were Messrs. Arthur and Richard Woodman Ramsay (brothers), Frederick, Arthur and 1 Frank Wallis .and G. Hausmann,. of Feilding (brotherfi-in-liw). -John G. Collins, of Taihape (cousin), Hollo Eanisay, 'V.M.C.A. secretary at Awapuni. and Lionel Gilbert (nephews). Tho Mayor' (Mr. .T. P. Luke, 51.?., C.M.G.) and Mr. H. .T. H. Blow .' (Under-Secretary for Mines) were nlso present. The pall-bearr <>n were, Messrs. Arthur, Frederick, and : Frank Wall is, C. Hausmann, L. Gilbert, and 0. L. Rose. A. wreath was se.n£ by Ihc employees of Messrs. Taylor, Ramsay,; and Co. Tt«v. W, Shiicr conducted .the church service at the graveside,' and Bros. J. 0. Riddcll and James Hod tho Masonio burial service.

Messrs. C. W. Baltw, ]>.- G. Munro, J. I. Tox, and Major MICUIop. left for Auckland yesterday to attend tho Conference of Returned' Soldiers.-. ■ ■ ■•■■

Corporal Albert Boy Parkin (missing)' is a eon of Mr;' Parkin,' of. Cuba Street, Wellington. He left New' Zealand with.' the Tenth Reinforcements, and after ft short service he was removed to hospital Ito be operated on for appendicitis. Hβ was later appointed to .the. Lewis..GunSpction, and went through the.Soairae en< cagements.' Prior to his enlistment Corporal -Parkin was employed by the. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. . ■

A pleasing ceremony took place :nt the end of last month, whoivMr. H. A. K.Farquhar, surveyor,'.of the head office, lands ami Survey Department, was.the recioient from tlie L'nder-Secretary and stuff of a token- of their esteem on the eve of his -entering a well-earned' retirement after a period of forty years' faith- . fill service. In 1878 Mr. Farquhar joined -■ {he- Survey staff in Nelson. A few years, ■ later he .qualified as a surveyor, and 'duties were assigned him in the field under Mr. i. D. B. Murray, then District Surveyor in thn Nelson district. Fromthis experience Mr. Farquhar was next placed in charge of a> parly and sent to the Otago district, where his careful and accurate work -gained hii.u well-deserved merit. Of late years Mr. Fnrqunars services have been to the omee, and the duties imposed upon-him-nave--been carried out in such -thorough man- . nor as to gain hini the respect and confidence of not only his own, but the oftcers of other Departments with whom his work brought him in contact. Mr. Farquhnr jwssessed in his private.cap-, ncity a 'great love for. natural history* His-studies.in this branch s ,.of science, . which ■ have extended ,over-<«iaiiy yea«,.. ( . •hart been the ns«ans.of having much, of our native fauna properly classified and recorded, as well as gaining for himsell hi"h encomiums from tho leading natural history societies of Europe, America, and Australia.