PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17257, 5 September 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. A. A. Chapman, acting-manager 0 „ the Union Steam Saip Company at, Aoi arrived by the Talune yesterday. '° ' Captain J. M. Gillespie, who has \Jt on the garrison staff at Samoa for tw years, returned to Auckland by the Taim* yesterday. e Mr. J. Young, president of th«. £„•». Zea'and Railway Officers' In«:-'-j;« visiting Auckland. He will shcr*>v rcti.* from his present position. ' KCI Mr. F. J. Cox. managing cl.-.-ft*/.. 0 - Cordon and Gotch, Australasia, .1 ■>;>„} is on a visit to Auckland. He' »-. -.;' -..*.'" ceed to Vancouver by the Niaga.l ''. * will later visit the United State's" I, '■■ don, and Paris. Mr. W. A. Banks is resigning f-..-.,, n * chairmanship of the Cantflrbur. ''AV rtion Board. He is a brother of Mi. V '*' Banks, chairman of the Aurkla.-fj }..'■ tion Board, and, like him. was a* ,„ ; . •'_-,., in the teaching profession. Mr. H. W. Wilson, town c'erk of -~,..;. land, is to attend the Municipal v . <V" ence, which opens at Wellington on TV.-,-*, nesdav. In hie absence the ;'ssii<tan* *•.»,• clerk,' Mr. A. E. H. Ham-on. wjl. ..' acting-town clerk. The other (.it-, c . gates to the conference are Miss E. »- ville and Mr. P. J. Nerbenv. ! Captain Esmond Napier, M.C., who returned by the Athenic. lias arrived in Auckland- At the outbreak of the -vrar be went to Fort Cautky.. where he served for a year, after which he was drafted to the infantry. Leaving New Zealand wHh the Twentieth Reinforcements, he served ! for some time on the trench mortar bp*. teries in France, and was then transferred to _ the Auckland P.ttalion. Cantain Napier, who was twice wounded" won the^lil : tary Cross for capturing and' holding a; German strong position o after his superior officer had become a casual? Since the armistice he has been a jo* . mobilising officer at Sling Camn.