PERSONAL MATTERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 41, 16 August 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL MATTERS

Mr. Ernest J., Young is gazetted a shorthand reporter under the Shorthand Reporters Act.

Captain Charles M'Arthur will leave Wellington by;the Manuka to-night, on a visit to Australia.

Mr. Joseph Fuller, of Prebbleton, formerly of the Government Railways, is dead. He was over 80 years of age. ■

Mr. R. W. Dalton (H.M. Trade Commissioner), who arrived in Auckland by the- Niagara, is due in Wellington today, by the Auckland express.

Mr. T. P. Mills is gazetted Probation Officer under. the First Offenders' Probation Act for the city of Wellington, the boroughs of Miramar, Karori, and Onslow, and the town district of Johnsonville.

The late Mr. A. M. B. Duff ("Alec") was for a number of years a prominent member of the Eival Cricket Club. He put up several good bowling performances, and there are many residents of this city who read with regret of his death in last night's Post.

Mr. W. H. Hamer, engineer to the Auckland Harbour Board, is a passenger for America, by the Makura to study the methods of. handling coal and . storing crude oils at the ports of the United States and Canada. . Mr. J. Marchbanks, engineer of the Wellington Harbour Board, is also a passenger for America by the same steamer.

The London correspondent of The Post, writes that Mr. John Melville (Wellington), who went to England for his health last October, has benefited considerably by the change, and is now staying with his sister in Manchester. He hopes to leave England on his return home in October. The convoy in which Mr. Melville went to .England was carrying. a great number of troops, and there were two submarine alarms.

A Press Association message from Christchurch states that Mr. Ronald Opio is dead, as the result of a motor accident a month ago. Eight or nine years ago Mr. O.pis was a prominent amateur sprinter, winning the Australasian championships. He also represented the Dominion at the Empire Carnival in England in 1911. He was a schoolmaster, and a son of Mr. C. H. T)pie, chairman of the Education Board.

Councillor W. J. Thompson, of Maar-ama-crescent, has been advised by cable that his son, Lieutenant Ralph Thompson, who has been in Franco for some time, is returning- to England for duty, and will be there for several months. Lieutenant Thompson left with the 2nd Reinforcements, and was in Egypt for sixteen months. Two years ago h© went to the Western front, and has Deen there ever since. He has never been -wounded, nor has he been sick since he left New Zealand. His brother Herbert, who held the rank of sergeant, was wounded at Grallipoli, and is now farming in H.wkes Bay.