PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL MATTERS

The Hon. J. Allen left for the South last night.

Mr. W. Johnston, chief clerk of the Hokitika Post Office, has been appointed postmaster of Apia (Samoa).

Mr. R. G. Jordan, of the Bank of New Zealand at Rangiora, has been transferred to Christchurch.

Dr. Stapley, of Cambridge, has received a telegram from the Director-General of Medical Services requesting him to report at Featherston Camp as soon as possible.

Mr. G. 'W. F. Rouse, accountant of the Wellington Co-operative "Waterside Labour Employment Association, has resigned his position to go into business.

Lieutenant-Colonel Powley and Mrs. Powley, of the Salvation Army, have returned to Wellington from the South Island.

Mr. John Reilly, seventy years of age, and one of the oldest residents of Cororaandel, died on Tuesday last, after a short illness.-

Captain Sand-ham, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, now in France, was a staff sergeant-major when he left the Dominion. Mr. Thomas Forsyth, chairman of Clyde-quay School Committee, has been nominated for a seat on the Education Board. Commissioner Hodder, of the Salvation Army, accompanied by Mrs. Hodder, Brigadier Gist, and Major Page, left Wellington yesterday for Blenheim, Nelson, and Motueka.

Mr. D. M. Yeats has been nominated by; .the Hutt District High School Committee for a seat on the Education Board to represent the Hutt-Petone urban area.

Captain J. W. H. Bannerman, editor and manager of the Bluff Press, has enlisted. Mr. Bannerman is well known throughout Canterbury, Southland, and Ota-go as a footballer and cricketer.

Quartermaster-Sergeant J. F. Walsh, of Milton, who has returned from the front, has been appointed clerk to the Balclutha Borough Council temporarily, in place of Mr. F. J. Ramsay, who has enlisted.

The death is announced of Mr. Henry Brown, of Rongotea, at the age of 62. He was a native of Tunbridge, England. He has left a widow, five daughters, one of whom is Mrs. J. Walter, of Wellington, and two sons.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin announces the death of Mr. Wtlliam Ba-rron, who was member for Caversha-m between 1879-90. Deceased, who was 78 years of'age, had occupied the position of Grand Master of the New Zealand Lodge of Freemasons.

Mr. W. D. Stewart, manager for Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Christchurch, will succeed Mr. A. Macintosh as superintendent for New Zealand The latter gentleman intends to retire from service in a few months' time.

Corporal F. Maynard and Privates Thompson and Maxwell, late members of the Petone unit of the National Reserve, were last evening entertained by the members of that company, Lieutenant Anderson presiding. The guests were presented with parting gifts.

Private advice has been received that Mr. Peregrine Grigg, who was a midshipman on board the Queen Mary, and was supposed to have gone down with the ship, is safe, and in Mainz, in Germany. Mr. Grigg, who is a nephew of Mr. John Grigg, of Longbeach, was appointed to the Queen Mary quite recently.

Mr. H. W. Kirkwood, of the Justice Department, who received wounds in the ankle at Gallipoli, is reported to be recovering. He was removed to the Second Western Hospital, Manchester, being discharged from there early this year. : He is now stationed at the New Zealand base camp at Homebush. Mr..Kirkwood left the Dominion with the Eighth Reinforcements.

Mr. L. S. Fanning, after ten years of service with the Evening Post, has resigned his position as a member of the editorial staff to carry ou independent work, and vacates his desk to-day. Yesterday afternoon a full gathering of the literary staff met him to say farewell. Mr. Gresley Lukin, Editor of The Post, spoke regretfully of the loss of a valued colleague, and, on behalf of the staff, presented Mr. Fanning with an oak office chair, bearing a suitable inscription.

News has been received that Lieutenant Irwin Rutherford, a Wellington College old boy, has been awarded the Military Cross. Lieutenant Rutherford went to England rather more than twelve months ago and qualified for a commission, in the/Royal Field Artillery, being sent to Framce shortly afterwards. He was severely wounded in the legs last January, and was mentioned in despatches, although for what action is hot known here. At present Lieutenant Rutherford is making a slow recovery in' London, and it is hoped that he may soon be able to return to New Zealand for a timt.

Many school committee members and others interested in educational matters will regret to learn that Mr. Free! Pirani, who has given twenty years' service on the Wanganui Education Board, has definitely decided to retire at the end of July. Mr. Pirani has occupied the position of chairman for the past- ten years, having succeeded the late Mr. Bridge in that capacity. It is mainly due to the energy and hard work put into the position by Mr. Piraiii—often at the sacrifice of his own business interests—that educational matters in the Wanganui district are on 'such a satisfactory basis. Messrs. D. H. Guthriq, M.P., G. H. Bennett (Palmerston N.)\ P. O'Dea. and E. Dixon (Hawera), and F. Pai'nell (Marton) are some other members of . the board that will not seek re-election.

Mr. William White, who arrived in Wellington over fifty-eight years ago from England, will celebrate his one hundredth birthday to-morrow. Mr. White was born on 18th June, 1816, at AValworfch, Surrey, and came to New Zealand in the Alma. He was sent up to Hawkes Bay roadmaking, and afterwards took up farm work. Later, he visited the Otago goldfields, and roamed about the country as a farm hand. " I feel quite fit, and am able to take a daily stroll, with my pipe as companion, for I have smoked since I was fourteen years of age, and have also been a'moderate drinker," remarked the centena.rian yesterday. " I should like, if my legs were stronger, to go to the front, for I used to pride myself on being a good shot/ concluded, Mr. White, who looks far younger than his years.