PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18785, 12 August 1924, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

tho Star HoteL ' Sir Robert Stout, as president of a-' A Prisons Board, fa visiting Wanganui, Mr. J. S. Dickson, MP., left fo r to <■ t lington by the Main a Trunk last evening ' Mr. Esmonds Napisr was admitted *»-- , a solicitor of the Supremo Court Test*? ' day by Mr. Justice Stringer, upon &« motion of Mr. W. J. hapier. k Bishop Averill left for Wellington Uit ; evening to attend a meeting of biahoss . and also a meeting of the standing cora' mittee of the General Synod. H* wis accompanied by Mr. C." J, Tumts J?a • Mr. G. Hudson. TOd i Captain L. McLaglan and his wife. ]Dr Eleanor McLaglan (formerly Dr. Baker' of Dunedin). arrived at Wellington ev tk* Ruahine. Captain McLaglan will bq r e , 1 membered as a former resident of Wei" i lington and instructor in jxt jitsu ta.6 i bayonet exercises. Mr. R. A. Sutherland, a son of il&e ', Rev. R. R. M. Sutherland, of Roslyn -ft present in the employ of tie Dunedin City Corporation's electrical department has been appointed assistant to tm ifo* signing engineer of the Queensland ItTij'iJ tion Commission and will leave for "Brisbane shortly. Captain G. E. Parkinson, who for the past two years has be«n artii' lery instructor at Dunedin,, has beei transferred to Auckland, where he win relieve Captain R. F. Parks, who is proceed to England to undergo a gmvuery course. Captain Parkinson will the duties of instructor in heavy and coast batteries at Auckland. Captain C. H. Cliff on, N.Z.S.C, !«ft. by the Ruapehu from Wellington on Sitturday for England to take the advanced Royal Engineer's course at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham. H« will be there for one year, and it is hoted thia may be extended to cover further training for at least another year. Oss •?•''•' completion of his course Captain Clifton i! will return to New Zealand. Dr. H. R. De Groot, ship's surgeon cf the Ruahine, which arrived at Wellington on Saturday morning, is an ex-capttiin of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and had much army experience. He served in the Ashanti war, the Boer war, the Zula r»- it' hellion of 19C6, and in the Great War in Egypt and France, besides being on <&e ambulance shipping transports at the end of the war.