PERSONAL

North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13235, 5 March 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL

t,« lx —r* If ho berJlr'A. Matthews, oUVfliorongoutaV,/will'have been n continuous member of J the FcaHieibtpu County Council for 40 ' ' * years. ; • f ■ _ Mr Hoary Howard, of the New Zealand Picture Supply Company, ls.ldaviug.ou ft trip tojinglnud, Via America, ' in about six weeks' time. Mr Ilayward / will bo absent for about six mouths.' j*

Dr Agues- Bennett,'■ of, • Wellington, volunteered for servicewith tho French Red Cross .Society, nnd-beibg way to joiu the staff, about, tho eud-bf the month. , ' v ; i;'

Captain'H.S.;Williams, of the.Dorsetshiro Regiment, 'has .been -.promoted to tho rauk of major, He ; lias qui.to; rehovered from the. wound he rccoivcd.at lion*, imd is. back at*th.o front lagaiu. Major Williams is'ft'Napwr-.boy.;. ,• ■'.

Mr John Allen, son of tho, lloii.: Jas. Allen, has received a commission ill;tho ■British Armvyand isJud..liout«ilauton the 13th (service), Battalion ut : *.tho Worcestershire Regiment, whichjs.now in. training in .Cornwall. ;"■'■•;■.-',: y-'.

Qiiarterniiister-Scrgcnnt' '■ yAlJnu .\\\. Duncan, of thV 13th • Kcgimonl,-*. ■ sftid Sergeant Davidson, of-the machine-gun section of the New Zealand Kspodilionarv Force, now. in tytftt, have received commissions in the. Imperial Army,

Mr AV.-S. LiUlojbhii, M.A., lieail-\,-, master of. the Scotch College, Mel- I<s bourne (at one time headmaster ot Nel- J* sou College), has consented to be nominated for the scat on the University Council, vacated by Archbishop Clarke.. .

:' Mr It. J. Richards; son of ArclidcacOU Riehsirds, Lawrence, and an old Law-. roneo District High School boy, has received information (says.tho Tuapoka ••■ Times) that he has passed the first sec-' tion of the B.A. degree, Mr Richards, who is a student of Canterbury College, was at the end of last yoar awarded a Greek Exhibition of'the value of £20,;

Dr HnTdwick Smith/ retiring medical superintendent to the Wellington Hospital and Charitublo Aid Bojird, was on Monday the vecipicut of a*silver inkstand and pcu-rcst from tlio staffs of the Board..Tho presentation was made by the secretary (Mr J. Covlo), who said that for tho past six veins over 700 meetings of various committees of the Board had been held at which Dr Hnrdwiek Smith attended. A well-known Maori interpreter, Mr George 'Brown, died in a private hospital at Auckland on Monday. The deceased had resided in 'Auckland for very many years, and was connected with tho Department of Native.Affairs, lie was a familiar liguro in the. Supremeand Magistrate's Courts, whoro he was frequently called upon to.actns interpreter in cases in which Maoris wero concerned.