PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16268, 29 June 1916, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

— ♦ Mr. T. M. Fletcher, of Christchurch, is at. present in Auckland. He is staying at the Royal Hotel.

Lieutenant-Colonel C. Harcourt Turner, officer in charge of the Motuihi internment camp, returned yesterday from Wellington, where he had been on official business.

Mr. D. Hanson recently returned to Christchurch after a tour extending over 13 months in the interests of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company , through the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Japan.

The appointment of Mr. J. A. Asher, 8.A., as assistant master, on probation, at the Boys' Grammar School as from July 1, was reported to the Board of Governors by the vice-chairman, Professor A. P. W. Thomas, yesterday.

The Rev. E. C. Cook, curate at St. Mary s Church, New Plymouth,, has volunteered for service with the ambulance, and is waiting to be called up. Mr. Cook has lost one brother at Gallipoli, and has another who is a sergeant in the Field Artillery in Flanders.

Mr J. Acheson-Jones, of Auckland, and an old Thames School of Mines student, has been appointed consulting metallurgist to the Randfontein Central "Gold Mining Company. This comprises the whole of the Sir J. R. Robinson group of companies in the Transvaal.