PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 37, 12 August 1914, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Frderic Sliipman arrived thie morning on the Ulimaroa. He leaves on Friday for Sydney, en route to America. The Rev. Father Scgrief, who is to accompany the advance force, is v son of Mr. M. Segrief, of Damrl-street, Wellington South, and is a prijfessor of St. Patrick's* College. Mr. John , Fuller, jun., Wellington, who went away to California some months ago and arrived in Sydney last month, was a passenger to Wellington by the Ulimaroa to-day. Mr. K. G. Chamberlain, assistant private secretary to the Minister of Public Works, will act as private secretary to the Minister of flkrino (the Hon., F. M. B. Fisher) while Mr. A. Hall is away on active service. During the timo Colonel 0. Harcourt Turner is away from New Zealand on active service liis place as manager df the Wellington branch of th* Blackball Coal Company's business will bo taken by Mr. T. .N. Grange, from the Christchurch staff. It is reported in Australian papers that Mr. William Lowrio, late Director of Agriculture in South Australia, has purchased the Battunga Estate^ near Macclesfield, in that State, and intends ,to carry on mixod farming there. Ho haa been succeeded as director by Professor Perkins, principal of Roseworthy College,' whose position is now filled by Mr. \V. J. Colobatch, formerly in the veterinary branch of the Victorian Department of Agriculture. Mr. W. J., Stafford, late Assistant Experimontalist at Rosewofthy ? has been appointed to the new position of superintendent of agricultural experimental work. At the time that Mr. Lowrio was director of Canterbury Agricultural Colleg©, Mr. Colebatch was lecturer Uiero of veterinary science.

The Aorangi Lodge of OcWfoliowe, 8.U.0.0.F., at a mooting last night, paesod th© following resolution., moved by Brt). J. Beveridge and seconded by Bro. A. Richards: "Any member of this lodge leaving with Expeditionary Forces shall be kept financial till ho r>o4vLrn& at #6 gq»on>^.^)f tfcojfodgv.H