PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16378, 4 November 1916, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Me. and Mrs. G. R. Bloomfield were passengers for the South by the mid-day ' express train yesterday. ' Lieutenant-Colonel T. Hope Lewis, inspector of military hospitals, left tor the South f by the mid-day express train yesterday. r - H. B. Morton has been elected to the worth Trust Board, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sir Maurice O'Borke. Mr. C. J. Parr, M.P., left ior Cambridge yesterday for the purpose of delivering an adaress upon the war. He will return to Auckland to-day. Lieutenant Esmonds Napier, who has been appointed to the command of G Company of the twentieth reinforcements, is visiting Auckland on leave. Mr. H. F. Hall, formerly assistant master of the Epsom, school, who saw service with the New Zealand Expeditionary res in Egypt and France, and was recommended for appointment to commissioned rank, is now studying;! a military college near London, with ▼View to completing his qualification. G. E. L. Alderton was yesterday admitted by His Honor Mr. jjpslice Hosjnne to be a barrister -of the Supreme Court. The application was made by Mr F. Earl, K.C.. who said that Mr. Alderl ton had received a commission in the Koyal Navy Motor-boat Patrol Service, and _ would shortly he leaving on active service Mr. Earl said that Mr. Alderton had shown considerable promise in Mb profession.