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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17982, 26 December 1918, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Dr Acland. of who has been on active service for some yearn is on his way bach to New Zealand. Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence, prrived jn Christchurch from Wellington on Tuesday, and left by the hoh\ day express at 8.45 a.m. for Dunedin.

After forty-three years' service in the National Insurance Company, Mr Henry Williams is voluntarily retiring. For twenty-five years Mr Williams has} occupied the position of general manager.

Mr Walter Scott, the well-known motorist, will leave Christchurch tonight on an extended business trip to Italy, Franco and the United Kingdom, on behalf of the firm of W- B. Scott and Co. Mr Scott will join the Dorset at Wellington.

Services given to the Ghristchuroh Second Division League by the secretary, Mr J. M. Turnbull, were recognised at a meeting of the executive, when the president, Mr H. S. J. Goodman, presented Mr Turnbull with a case of pipes. Mr Goodman said that the present itself was not intended a«i commensurate recognition of Mr Turnbull's splendid services to members of the Second Division, but marked the executive's appreciation of what h 0 had done for the dependents of men at the front or in camp. The league's bureau in Hereford. Street, of which Mr Turnbull was in charge, has been closed, but the executive will continue to watch repatriation operations. Since the bureau was opened early this vear," Mr Turnbull attended to 300 callers and filled in between forty and fifty api plications for/widows' allowances* and 400 applications for financial assistance.