PERSONAL ITEMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 7 November 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr and Mrs A. G. Bennett of Manaia. left to-day for the north for a tnree weeks' holiday.

Mrs J. Johnstone, Vogel street, has received advice that her son. Private Harold Johnstone, 2nd Australian General Hospital, is returning by the Devon, due at Melbourne about November 16.

Sir William Ellison-Macartney Governor of West Australia, will proceed to England early next year on urgent private business. It is understood he will not return.

Mr W. A. Rennell, accountant at the Bank of New Zealand, New Plymouth, has received notice of his appointment to the position of manager of the bank at Levuka, and leaves about the 18th.

The Government Statistician, Mr Malcolm Fraser, is to represent the Dominion at the Imperial Conference of Statisticians to be held in London next January (states a Press Association message). During Mr Fraser'g absence Mr J. W. Butcher, Chief Compiler of the Census and Statistics Office, will be acting-Government Statistician.

A Wellington message states that it was announced yesterday that Colonel Robert Ward Tat c has been offered and has accepted the position of Civil Administrator of Samoa. He went to Samoa early this year to relieve Colonel Logan as acting military administrator. Colonel Tate was a barrister and solicitor, and was prominently identified with volunteer and territorial forces during the war.