PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16169, 4 March 1916, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS .

Captain E. G. Fraser, 3rd, Auckland, Regiment ( has been appointed instructor in machine-gun duties at r Feathemton camp. Mr. J. B. Clarkson, of Ohristcflurch, is at present in Auckland, and is staying at the Central Hotel. Mr. Clarkson leaves for Australia next week. The Hon. W. H. Hcrries, Minister for Railways and Native Minister, left Auckland yesterday for To Aroha. ' Ho expects to arrivo in Wellington early next week. Mr. Justice Cooper will leave for Hamilton by Monday's mid-day express train to preside over the sittings of the Supreme Court there on the following day. Lieutenant W. J. Reid, N.Z.M.CI, -who left for the front with the 4th Battalion of tho New Zealand Rifle Brigade, as one of the medical officers, has been, promoted to captain. Mr. T. Harle Giles, conciliation commissioner, has returned to Auckland from Now Plymouth, where he went to preside over sittings of four conciliation councils in various disputes. Colonel P. J. Collins, C.M.G., LaO, Auditor and Controller-General of Ne* Zealand, who has been on a visit to th« Auckland _ district, left for Wellington by last evening's Main Trunk express. Ho joined tho train at Frankton Junction. Advice was received by cable that Mfc J. Laidlaw, of Auckland, who has been in England for some months, studying aviation at his own expense in a private flying school, lias been gazetted aa a sub-lieuten-ant in the Royal Naval Flying Corps. A cable message has been received from India announcing tho death at Mhow, India, on February 27. of LieutenantColonel J. C. 0. Perkins, D.5.0., son-in-law of Mr. Harold Beauchamp, of Wellington. Colonel Perkins was military Deputy-Auditor-General for the Southern Army of India. Mr. Malcolm Niccol, Grand Secretary of Now Zealand Freemasonry, who has been on a visit to Auckland, left for the South by last night's Main Trunk express. Mr. Niccol was engaged herein making preliminary arrangements for the transfer from Christchurch of his head office, which will, under the Masonic peripatetic system, be stationed in Auckland for two years from May next.