PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17192, 12 June 1916, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Mr W. H. George arrived from the north on Saturday. Mr A. S. Adams arrived from the north on Saturday. Mr H. G. Ell, M.P., arrived from the north yesterday. Lieutenant H. Farr returned to "Wellington an Saturday night. The Hon J. Barr, M.L.C., returned from the north on Saturday. Mr G. H. Scales arrived from Wellington by the ferry steamer on Saturday.

Lieutenant F. L. Murray arrived from Wellington yesterday. He will return north to-morrow.

The Mayor and Mayoress of Invercargill (Mr and Mrs Duncan Macfarlane) are visitors to Christchurch. The Rev R. S. Gray, who was at one time stationed in Christchurch, arrived from the north on Saturday morning.

Mr W. Recce, a director of the Bank of New Zealand, returned on Saturday from Wellington, where he attended the annual meeting of the hank. Messrs L. M. Isitt, M.P., J. Graigic, M.P.j C. E. Statham, M.l\, and J. M. Dickson, M.P., arrived from the north on Saturday by the ferry steamer. Sir Rider Haggard, who is visiting New Zealand in connection with a proposal to secure land for returned' soldiers of the .Empire, left Wellington for Auckland on Friday, on his return to England. 'The death occurred at Gishorno yesterday of Mr William Duncan, general manager of the Poverty Day Farmers' Meat Company, aged sixty-nine years. For many years lie was prominently connected with the meat industry in Australia and' New Zealand.

Sergeant-Major T. W. .Moor, of Section A, Field Ambulance, mentioned in the King's Birthday honours as the recinjont of a Distinguished Conduct Medial, is the third son of Mr James Moor, late of New Brig Hon. now residing in Atinmnri, Auckland, and granrls-"! of Mr W'l'i.im Moor, of Edgeware Itoad, St Albans. P"h-atf> I?. Molyneux, of the Fifteenth I'cnl'nr"M!!p-its, on leavina Rnngiora on Satin-day afternoon for Trentbani rftcr final leave, was farewelled at the i-Hhray fixation by th" So'diers' Entertainment Committee and a number (if other friends. The Mayor ■('Mr C. 1. Jennings) expressed wishes for Private Molyneux's success at the front and on boh ilf of the committer! presented him with a soldier's companion' and a fountain pen.