PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17444, 14 April 1920, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Burt, of Dunedin ... at the Grand Hotel. ' *• 3g| The Rev. v" T. B. Pare, of St. Marks Church. Wellington, visiting Auckland '; Mr. and Miss von Tempsky, of Hon,,' ' lulu, arrived from Roto-rua vesterdav ?'J are at the Grand Hotel. " eSWda >' a »d t. D *u^-»?- t Shaw ' of Melbourne, arrived by the Maheno yesterday on a visit to las parents at New Plymouth. Mr. W. K. Duncan, president of tl» Export Association of Canada, Limited witn headquarters at Montreal. armS from Sydney by the Mabeno yesterday Mr. E. H. Binner was vesterdav f ,i tctAA chairman of the Auckland WrvolbroW Association, in success-ion to Mr A * "" Perkins, who intends to- ieave <=hortlv ™ a visit to England. "' on Mr. J. M. O'Reilly, who has been stationed at Dunedin for the last fiva years as senior examining officer has bo* n transferred to the Auckland Custona landing staff. Mr. J S Hyslop. London represent*. live of the New Zealand Associated Pre« is in Auckland, at the Central Hotj' He purposes leaving by the Maheno on Phursday for Sydney, en route for Ensland. * Contain E. S. A. Baynes. an official -» the Department of Overseas Trade, who has recently been attached to the office of the Trade Commissioner in New. Zealand, is making at tour of the South Island. The Rev. Albert Thornhill. who has been appointed minister of the Auckland Unitarian Church, arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Maheno from Sydney. *Mr. Thornhill, who was accompanied by Mrs. Thornhill, has come frt-m England; Mr. Horace Hunt, son of Mr. Leslie Hunt, of Mt. Eden, has returned to Auckland, after having spent four years in the German prison camp at Ruh!ebea When the war broke out Mr. Hunt, who is a musician and composer, was pursuit!? his musical studies in Ber:in. and with several other students was immeiiu«!y interned. He returned by the Cwinthie to Wellington last week."

Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Batcbelar, of the 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles, has been invested with the insigni of the Order of the Nile, third class. The recipient left New Zealand as a lieutenant in the Main Body, and served with the Mounted Rifles on Gallipoli and subsequently against the Turkish forces on tha Sinai Peninsula and in Palestine, the operations culminating in the complete surrender of the Turkish army in October. 1918. During the latter campaign he wag wounded, received promotion, and eventually attained command of his regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Batchelar also served with the New Zealanders in th South African War.