PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16670, 15 October 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS .

Ms. and Mrs. J. 0. Allan, of Northern": ; Wairoa, ate at the Grand Hotel. ;• : f\ Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Chapman, of Mel* .': bourne* are at tho Royal Hotel. - Mr. and Mjs. R. E. McDougall, dip Christchureh, are at the Grand Hotel. '.\s| Messrs. G. Scarlett and G. Maginnei*. V 1 of Christcliurch, are at the Royal Hotel. >s| . Mr, Donald Mcßeth and Mr. Hall, of Wanganui, are at the Star Hotel. *$ Mr. and Mrs. C. Hewitt and Mr. and %\ Mrs. H A. Fox, of Wellington, are at th* Royal Hotel. '< : Messrs. E. R. Murphy, of Tokoimru •;• Bay, and J. C. Dumbleton, of Rotorua, are at'the Grand Hotel. Mr. C. J. Parr, M.P., C.M.G.. arrived in Auckland on Saturday, and left again for Wellington last evening. Colonel G. W. S. Patterson. Officer Com., manding the Auckland Military District, ■who has been on a short visit ti Welling, ton, returned to Auckland yesterday. Archdeacon Hawkins returned on Saturday from Wellington, where he attended the conference between the Military Affairs Committee of the Anglican Chinch and the bishops and returned chaplains. The Rev. F. R. Burgin, who recently went to Wellington with Bishop Averill, is still in the Smith engaged in organising work for the Military Affairs Committee of the Anglican Church. Mr. Burgin will return in time for the opening of the synod next Friday. Dr. A. W. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, returned from Wellindon on Saturday morning. While in the Southern centre, Bishop Averill attended a conference of bishops and returned chaplains with the Church's Military Affairs Committee. He also visited the Awapuni, Featherston, and Trentham camps. The Rev. W. A. Barley, who has bepo. in charge of Franklin Road Me.hodi.-t Church for the Dast four years, has been invited to the Christchurch East Circuit. , The officials of the Franklin Road Church have extended an invitation to the Re-. W. H. Speer. of Northern Wairoa. to succeed Mr. Burley/ The invitation has been accepted, subject to the approval of the annual conference. Mr. Aubrey L. Williams, the third son of the Rev. W. J. Williams, of Sumner, hat, been discharged from the New Zealard Forces, and has joined his brother, Dr. Harold Williams, in journalistic work in Petrograd. He spent four years in Russia before the war, and when war was declared he enlisted with the New Zealand Contingent in London, serving in Gallipoli and France, where he was wounded.