PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, 29 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr James Blair, of the ffirmj of Do ■ Latour, Barker, Stock, and Blair, sohci- ■ • tors. -Gisborne, is paying a visit to Jiis -..._ parents at Richmond. At the weekly, practice of tho Ovthe- . dral choir on Friday evening, a prfe- > sentataoir was made to Ml' A. •»-" «•"?- Grezor, for some-time past a. member of tho choir, who is leaving shortly for EDokitika. The presentation was made ~ bv Mr N. B. Williams, the organist. , . Jid Mr McGregor suitably responded. Mr McGregor has been promoted to the > - position of Postmaster at Hokitika. * .'■ t. Corporal Thomas' Hudson whose ,; - death from pneumonia a,nd heart failttre -,> was reported'in a recent casualty list, ■ ~ was a son of Mr R. P. Hudson, M.P. -• for Motueka. The -deceased served. •at • Gallipoli and was invalided-.to England.. Mr W. G. Dement' was' to-day . appointed to the position, of woorwork an- , structor and foreman carpenter-to tho - Nelson Education Board, out of 15 applicants. Mi- Dement served" with the' New Zealand Expeditionary tforco, and has been given an honourable discharge, as being unfitted for furt!u-r ( service. . •