PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17329, 18 November 1916, Page 14

PERSONAL.

*. His Excellency tin?. Governor and the Counters of Liverpool will leave Wellington for Christchurch about .the end of this month, and will' probably reside here for the following couplo of months. Mr E. G. Rawnsley arrived from the north yesterday. . v Ihe Hon I). Buddo returned from Wellington yesterday. The Hon J. T. Paul. M.L.C.," arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning, and left for Dunedin. v v The Hon G. YY. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, loft by the midday express yesterday for Dunedin. . Mr Frank N, Lawrence, A.T.CiL.. who lias l>een organist at fet Andrew s Church lor the last live years, has been appointed to the dual position ol oig<inist and choirmaster. Mi- W Scott was unanimously recommended by the conference of the New Zealand Federation of Builders i and Contractors a.s the employers representative o n the Arbitration Court. Sir James Mills states that his son, Lieutenant James Fosbury Mills, ol the 60th King's Royal" Rifles, mentioned in the cables ns hurt at Salonika in February, sustained his injuries by the collapse of a dug-out- at night. He is now repotted fit, tor light duty and is assisting in the training camp at Lowestoft.

Dr .T. R. Elmore, of Kansas City, was in Christchurch yesterday, but left during tile day tor Dunedin. .Ho has completed his investigations into New Zealand rock paintings. He will leave Dunedin at. the end ol next month, and will spend several months amongst the aboriginal tribes of Noi them Queensland, and then will return to his homo in the United States. Mr YV. W. Cook, who has ( be'cu Deputy-Registrar for the past, ten years, has been appointed RegistiaiGeneral, in place of Mr F. TV. Mansfield. retired. Mr Cook was born at Port Chalmers in 1376, and is the sou of the late Mr James Cook, whose lastappointment was manager of the National Bank at* Blenheim, The new Registrar-General, who is a sobcito.. rc-eeived his education at Te Aro bchoo. and Wellington C'ollego, and entered tlie head office in YVellmgton m March,. 1895. Since then ho lias gradually risen to his present position. Ho had been an energetic secretary of the W ellington College Old Boys' Association for four years, and has played cricket for the Wellington, Excelsior, one Old Boys’ Club., and football for Wellington and Old Bovs.