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Evening Star, Issue 16409, 27 April 1917, Page 5

PERSONAL

Hf Wilkinson has been reappointed as tne Government’s representative on the Ufc-ago Harbor Loard tor a period of three years, and Air A. H. Bridger has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the representation oi Dunedin City and St. Kikla. •j i ota S° Labor Council last night -deemed to express their satisfaction "at the election of Mr E. Kellett to the City C’oun-

Alr Holland has received a sheaf of telegrams f rom al] over Xew Zealand congratulating him on the splendid victory obtained by him for the mayoralty of Liiristchurch. 'telegrams were received from the Hon. W. H. Her vies (Minister of Railways), the Hon. G. W. Russell (Minister of Internal Affairs), and the Alavors of Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin. ’ Tne substance of the telegrams,” said Air Holland to a reporter yesterday, “ is that the victory is looked upon as having a very much wider aspect than can be "applied to local elections. It is regarded as a victory for the Dominion, and a backing up of the Government policy in appivii-f- - Act.” ' " ° Word was recently received by Nliss APLaren, of Christchurch, that her brother, William F. APLaren, had keen promoted to sergeant. Sergeant M'Laren who is a son of the late Air James APLaren, a former Mayor, and for a num•Kr of years a councillor of Caversham. saw service in Gallipoli, and is now “somewhere in France.” Prior to leaving with the 4th Reinforcements Sergeant APLaren was in the employ of tile New Zealand Dw.n and Mercantile Agency Company in Dunedin. Dr Barnett, formerly of Taihape, and -now practising at Palmerston North, has offered his services to the military authori*lelk ar H w iß join the 26th Reinforcements. n retirement, owing lo ill-health, of Mr R. H. Pope; Inspector of Industrial bcnools, is announced by the ‘ Public service Journal,’ which slates that lie is another of the long-service officers who, on account ol their integrity and standing m the Service, can ill be spared. Mr Pope was in his thirty-fourth year of ser- }} ce ’ , e iojl term having been spent in the Education Department, which he joined as a cadet in May, 1883. - For many years he has been exclusively engaged in tmu section of the department’s activities winen relates to the care and upbringing of neglected, delinquent, deaf, blind, and feeble-minded children. He has been largely responsible for the present effective organisation of this particular portion of the btate s burden. In giving the results of the Citv Council election yesterday an asterisk should have appeared against the name of Mr Matthew Henoerson, he having been a member of the old council. He represented Anderson