PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 49, 26 February 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. W. E. L. Jennings, late of the National Bank, has been appointed associate to Mr. Justice Herdman. ■

Mr. J. M'Donald, a conspicuous exhibitor at its "shows," has been appointed secretary to the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. The Academy proposes to hold a sketch exhibition after Christmas.

Mr. Harold Gregson, the Auckland organist, is, visiting Wellington for health-recruiting purposes. Owing to an accident sustained on the Main Trunk railway some months ago, he had recently to undergo an operation' for the removal of his right thumb nail, which has, naturally, interfered a good deal with his work.

At the annual conference of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association of New Zealand yesterday, it was resolved:— " That the members of this association in annual meeting assembled desire to place on record their deepest sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. W. Gothard, Mr. D: Gardner, Mr. William Lane, and Mr. Leslie Brett."

Lance-Corporal Lionel J.. Carmine, formerly, on the Gisborne staff of the Bank of New Zealand and son of Mr. L. J. Carmine, recently of Gisborne, but now of Napier, was gassed in France on 6th February. Another son, Roy, who is a wireless operator in the. Pacific merchant service, is recovering from' a serious operation at the University Hospital, San Francisco.

News has been received by Mrs. T. Wolland, Alicetown, Lower Hutt, that her son, Trumpeter J. D. Wolland, has been admitted to the New Zealand General Hospital, Brockenhurst, suffering from a gurlshot wound. in the face, left arm; (severe), and;leg. Trumpeter Wolland was' born and educated in Lower Hutt district, and prior to his enlistment he was at Fort Ballance. He went away with the 12th N.Z.F.A. .

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that the death occurred at Port Chalmers yesterday of Mrs. M. M. Macpha.il, Assistant Professor of Modern ■Languages at the Victoria University -College, Wellington. Mrs. Macphail was ,the widow of a Presbyterian minister, and had been connected with the staff of Victoria College for about seven years, for the first four years as assistant to the Professor of Modern Languages. On the retirement of Professor Yon Zedlitz two and a-half years ago, she was appointed lecturer in French. In that position she did excellent work, and earned the esteem and respect of the students. She was of a retiring disposition, and during the past two years had been debarred by failing health from participation in general college activities.