PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18170, 16 August 1922, Page 10

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Sir Joseph Ward is visiting CbiiA II church. i ■. ' ™ » Archbishop Julias has retm-ned «. if , Christchurch from a visit to Wtfiingtoiv >' II 1 Mr. M. J Savage, M.P., waa a bm. •'» 3 senger for Wellington by the Mtin. l j express last evening- - V : --''K :

Mr. Robert Bell, managing director of the Lyttelton Times, who haa been ia » private hospital in Sydney, is now convalescent-

Mr. O. Bridge, of the A.M.P. Society who haa been relieving manager a,t Gifr - borne for a few months past, has returned to Wellington.

Mr. E. G. Banks, superintendent of tt 9 Waihi Goldmining Company's min6, sir* rived in Auckland yesterday. He jj g | the Grand Hotel.

The Rev. W. C Thomas, who came out to act as assistant at St. Paul's Cathedral Dunedin, some two years ago, wiU,\ \£ returning to England shortly.

Dr. W. Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland Hospital, was last evening granted leave of absence by the board to enable him to act as examiner in pathology and bacteriology at Otagp University.

Mr. Mark Maxton, of Grey town, haa ' received a letter from Sir Godfrey Thomas, private secretary to the i'rinoa of Wales, thanking him for some oil paintings, which he sent to His Royal Highness on behalf of Whare Turei and Mr. E. Boyd.

Mr. L. A. Lodge, who has been accountant of the National Bank of New Zealand in Timaru for the last six and a-half years, is resigning from the service and will be succeeded in bis presant position by Mr. F. Watkih, ot the Dunedm branch.

Mr. George Shandy who for the pari two years has been assistant-manager of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Compaay, Ltd., has been appointed manager at Oamaru, and leaves for the South this week. Mr. H. D. Robinson, his successor, who was in charge at Masterton, arrives this morning.

The colonial auxiliary forces officers* decoration has been awarded to BrigadierGeneral. Sir t>. J. McGavin, New Ze* land Medical Corps; Lieutenant-Colonel (Temp. Colonel) J. J. Esson, Wellington:. Regiment; Major D. Whit*, reserve of officers; Captain G- C. Felton, reserve of officers; and Rev. 1) Duttoc, chaplain, ~~" second-class, retired list.