PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

r- ' ■'. '.'■ —o— —'. ■' .■'. , A The Hori. D/H.'Guthrie ie going to m Ohau to-morrow.to make some inquiries 1, regarding soldier-settlements. i- The" Hon. A. M. Myers is'due back Iβ ; from Auckland to-morrow. ■ ■ , ; . • L d ' The'■ Him; T. SL Wilford is expected l " to return from the'South'lsland on Sunf) day. .:■■■. , ■. .! Mr. E. J. Collins, Controller and " 0 " Auditor-General, intends to resign from „ his position and to , retire on euperonv nuation , 'shortly. He expressed a wish to retire :• some time ago, but he was "'• pressed to remain at work' while the war continued. It is generally under"l stood that he will - be succeeded by Mr. °j G. F. C. Campbell, Secretary of the '" Treasury, and if this should . occur it e " seems probable that the new .Secretary J l, to'the Treasury will be ,Colonel Esson, . at present temporarily an Assistant Pubin lie Service Commissioner.. 'It ia not ,■ likely that the changes will take place s for some months. ■ .j .--. - !n Captain T. 3. Y. Seddon, M.P., is ex^ fi ■ pected to arrive in Auckland, in about a LU fortnight. >■ Hie youngest sister,. Mrs. I' Seddon-Wood, wife of Siirgeon-Com-,s mander Wood. 8.N., is expected to ar- „ rivo frofn London by E.M.S. Euahine; ~; now en route to New Zealand. Mr. ■■W.; Cnccia-Birch, of "Erpwhou," ," has juat learned that his'son, Lieuten- ° ant \ Anthony . Caccia-Birch, has been ~. awarded' the Military Cross. • Lieutcnff ant paccia-Bircli was born in New Zealand in 1898, and was educated at Huntis, ley School. (Martoti),i: the New Beacon l? (Seven Oaks), and Marlborongh. He ~ joined the'Eifle Brigade from Sandhurst J in 1917, and was promoted to bo first gi "lieutenant before the ..March offensive is last-year.. t- The death occurred at her. residence ie in Telford Terrace, Oriental Bay, yes■n lerdny.. mprnirig, of Mrs. W. J. Mor]l rish, widow of Professor Morrish, of ig Dunedin arid Invercargill. Mrs. Mor■rish has left a son, at present with the , ' Expeditionary Forces, oad a daughter (Mrs. Lowrie). . ' ;s An old identity of the-Wairaiapa/Mr. io James H; Tnplin, died at his home at i s Akura; near Masterton, on Tuesday ovening, at the ago of 74 years. The deceased, who was born in Oxfordshire, Eng: 'J land, arrived at Lyttelton in the sailing '* .ship Queen Of the Mersey in 1862. He Lt was married to a daughter of the late a ; Mr. Alexander Yule, one of the earliest settlers, and leaves a. grown-up family... 10 o r- "Mir. Edwin Hooper, who lias been for es some years on the staff of the Maeterton h- Borough Council, died ,in the Masterton A Hospital on Tuesday. ;■ "- Mv. John 1 Geoffrey Denniston, tho id youngest son of the Hon. Sir John D.en!S niston, who has been offered, *and_ has tt ' ncceptod, a' position upon the staff of Christ's College-Grammar School, is n it passenger, by tho Briton, which sailed :e from.' Devonport on December 27. Mr. lo Uenniston,- who was. born in v Christie church in 1890, was educated at, Christ's i- College, where he gained a Somes Scholn- RTShips, and, afterwards at Canterbury e- College, where ho took . his degreo as a- Kachelor of Ar.ts. in 1912. He was for s so short time an aesistant master of' the d- Lower School at Christ's College, a id position which he gave up in. 1912 ta of enter as an undergraduate at EirimanIy uel College, Canibridge. At the date Dr of the declaration of war ho was in it camp us' a private in King Edward'e t> Horse; in which regiment he remained al until fighting ceased. He left England ig as sergeant in the first drnft of. the ig regiment which went to the . front, es With other old Christ's College boys id lie was- offered, and accepted, a commieer eion in the regiment, and went to Ehg>y land for training. Lieutenant Dennis[n toil spent some time in Ireland, and his regiment was ' the *first to , enter Dublin n in the rising of 1918. the repiment being r j, fired on and two officers- Wiled. Lieul tenant Denniston's troop' had been dis--0 patched to Longford two days before. ' He was subsequently promoted to a , first lieutenancy. . .'./'■