PERSONAL.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 6 March 1915, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr Louis Blundell, of the Evening Post, Wellington, was appointed chairman of directors of the New Zen land Press Association at the meeting at Timaru. . Mr R. Fletcher, chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, has announced that he will 'not contest the position at tho next election, although he will be a candidate for a seat on the Board. Mr Wm, Recce, one of the best known merchants in Christehurch, has been appointed by Cabinet to the seat on the directorate of the Bank of New Zealand rendered vacant by the death of the Hon. Thos-Fergus. A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that Mr Harold Beauchamp has been reappointed A direeior of the. Bank of New Zealand for the ensuing two years. It is understood that Mr J. H. Upton, of Auckland, was also reappointed a director. In the- American edition of "The Green Curve," by "Ole Luke-Ole," the author (the London Athenaetim notes) is revealed as Lieut.-Colonel E. I). iSwinton, chief of the British Intelligence Staff at the front, and "F,yc-Witm\ss" of the despatches fro in the firing line of the British troops. One. of tho lirst immigrants from Kuglaud to the- Manchester Block, in the person of Mrs Pope, died last night at the residence of her .son-in-law, Mr J.. Bel fit. Mrs Pope came to fho district forty years ago with her husband, and she had seen what all the pioneers saw—order come out of chaos. Mr Pope died eight years ago. For the past fivo years Mrs Pope has been invalided, and had not leJt her bod. Mrs J. Bellit is a daughter. Dr. Pope, of .Palmerston, a son, and there is another son in England. Adjutant Greene, formerly connected with the social work of tho. Salvation Army in Wellington, ami now chaplain-with the expeditionary force in Egypt, writes to say: "Our marquee is now an established fact, and a great boon to the troops. Adjutant M;irtin 3 late of Malta, has arrived, and is proving of great assistance." In the case of Adjutant Greene moving to ISuropo, Adjutant Martin will control the marquee in the interests of the different sections.-of the NewZealand troops,- a s they arrive there for their training.