PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Archdeacon Williams left for the North • by the Manaia last night. t\'l. Canon Hamilton, who for the last 21 -; years has been vicar of Fendalton parish' '•" Christchurch, will retire at the end of thk month. ;;•?%, Lieutenant Gillingham, adjutant of the i 9th, Hawke's Bay, Regiment, is to leave ? Napier next week for India, where he win " ; continue his military career. Mr. Vincent Ward, son of Sir Joseph Ward, who recently returned to New Zealand from active service, is temporarily acting as private secretary to his father. J Mr. T. 0. Bishop, A.0.5.M., a graduate of the Otago School of Mines, has been appointed inspecting engineer of metalliferous mines to the Department of Mines Wellington. ' Mr. L. I. Grange has been appointed assistant geologist, and Mr. E. 0. Mac pherson, field geologist, on the permanent staff of the Mines Department. Both an» returned soldiers completing their final year at thje Otago Wining School. Major R. E. Cooper, who has been serving with the Imperial Forces in France, has returned to Auckland. " Major Cooper, who was an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School and was formerly on the reporting staff of the New Zealand Hebaxd, left Auckland to <*> *o England in 1915, in order to join the Royal Flying Corps'. Finding some difficulty in gaining admission to that branch of the service owing to the number oj applicants he joined the Royal Garrison Artillery' with the rank of junior Heatenant. He rapidly gained promotion, and in 1918 was awarded the Croix d* Guerre.