PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15964, 8 July 1915, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Comnel C. M. Gibbon, chief of general ' staff, is at present visiting Palmerston >:crth.

The Rev. F. Read, of the DunedinMethodist Church, has offered his services to the Government as a chaplain.

Dr. C. J. Wood, Bishop of Melanesia, will arrive in Auckland by the mission steamer Southern Cross at the end of this month.

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Riddiford. of Wellington, have booked passages for Honolulu by the Niagara, which leaves Auckland on July 13.

Sir Walter Buchanan, Wairarapa Ward, and Mr. William Allan. City Ward, have been re-elected members of" the Wellingtion Education Board without opposition?

Dr. Hagen, of Westport, lias been appointed medical superintendent of the Bay of Islands Hospital at Kawakawa. Ho will take up his duties towards the end of July.

His Excellency the Governo;, the Earl of Liverpool, has issued invitations to the whole of the official staff of the New Zea land hospital ship Maheno to attend at Government House to-night.

Colonel J. E. Hume, officer commanding the Auckland military district, has returned to Auckland from a visit of inspection of territorials, senior cadets, rifle clubs, and the National Reserve, at Paeroa, Rotoraa, Te Aroha, and Thames.

Mr. Alan Campbell, an ex-pupil of the Wanganui Collegiate School, now only eighteen years of age, who a few months ago received a nomination to Sandhurst, has already passed into the Highland Light Infantry Regiment. He is a son of Mr. G. F. C. Cami.bell, of Wellington.

Dr. L. E. Barnett. a well-known Dunedin surgeon, who arrived in London in April, has been advised by the War Office authorities that he will shortly be appointed surgeon to an overseas' hospital. In the meantime he has been given temporary duty at the Colchester military hospital.

Mr. J. B. Clarkson, of Christchurch, accompanied by Mrs. Clarkson, will join the Niagara at Auckland next week. cv. route to Vancouver. From Vancouver, Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson will go to San Francisco, and spend about a week in visiting the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Ultimately they will go to England, where Mrs. Clarkson intends to offer her services as a nurse. Mr. Clarkson intends to cross to Europe, and to get as near to the front as he possibly can, in order to observe the conditions there. While in England he hopes to be able to inquire into the treatment of wounded soldiers, as an unofficial observer, and to communicate the result of his inquiries to friends in New Zealand.