PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9515, 24 November 1916, Page 3

PERSONALIA

\ motion was carried unanimously at the Methodist' Synod yesterday tonveying the thanks of Synod'to the uev. V>’. R. Poo!, of Fiji, for Ins efficient work in tho missionary field during the past year.

Surgeon-General Henderson ill: reelorCeueral of Medical Services) left Mel-; lingtou last night by the southern ■ steamer for Lyttelton. . General Henderson will proceed to Dunedin in ovi.et to superintend tho examination which is to be held at the Otago University for cadet officers for the medical branch of the service.

Brigadier-General Sir Alfred Robin (Commandant of the New Zealand Forces), who has been, inspecting. Uij military area of Palmerston North amt Wanganui, returned to Wellington yesterday. ,

Private Richard Hugh Palmer,, who died at Trent ham at i-l-> o {erclay morning: trout broncho-pnotuuoituv following jnotudes, was a member oi *1 Company, 22nd .Reinforcements. Uo was single ami 2-i yems of age. father is Mr G. ,17. Palmer, ii, Parnell street, Wantjanui. The remain* are to b? sent to Wanganui for inlerxueiu. U the Methodist Synod- yesterday tho Rov. 17. Beckett was elected district representative to act with the chairman of tho district (Elv. J. G. Chapman), at the Methodist conference to be helil early next year. The Rov, J. Ward was elected substitute , rcpre.sentatii e.

Mr F. L; Arson, thief, inspector of fisheries, has been visiting. Onehunga. to ascertain whether oyster rock can bo procured there for shipping to 1 cloi us Bound.

Mr James Macintosh was yesterday i' B * elected president of tho Aasoeiatiou of Zealand Chambers of Commerce. Mr B Anderson (Auckland) was appoint' cd vice-president. The following were nominated as members of Messrs 11. S. Bourn (Christchurch),. » . Gow (Dunedin), E. L. Paterson (Napier), and C. M. Luke (Wellington Central). Lieutenant-Colonol T. A. Hunter, N Z.D.C. (Director of Dental Services). left for England yesterday, to .orpmso. the New Zealand dental services abroad. Colonel Hunter will Visit, the Western front and Egypt before he returns Dn - im? bis absence Major J- A- EisUvorUi, (Assistant Director of Medical Services), will be in charge -of-tho-del partraent. Second Lien tenant C. M-. Gilray. of the Now Zealand Rifle Bngmle, is m hospital at Etrctat with gunshot wounds in his head and left side. Ho was tho fourth Rhodes scholar sent from New Zealand, and is a noted footballer.Mr J. Coyle, secretary of the. Wellington Hospital Board, who has joined tha forces, has boon granted temporary leave of absence during his military service His position during, his absence will be filled by 'Mr t S. Robinson,. Aha dn-ountant, and tho- latter a position by Mr E. Brown, chief clerk, • -

Tie following officers' have Men Jected ns the result of a ballot by_iho New Zealand Miners’ Federation:—President, Mr J. Jones; secretary-treasurer. Mr fe. Arbuckie; workmen’s’ inspector nuu agent, Mr E. Semple; \ ' Mr J. B. Murphy, of Christchurch, baa been appointed South Island manage! for the Colonial Motor Company.

Mr 11. W. Eudmau, of the nioaoy order department of the Kelson post office, has received notice of his transfer on. promotion to ’Wellington. Lieutenant A. C. Clayton, of-Auck-land late of the SSth.oPonsonbsv Senior Cadets, now of the Royal Susses Regiment has, according to., information received in Auckland,. ..been, appointed, A.D.C. to Major-General J. C. Young,the officer commanding lids regiment. Fassongeis who journeyed north by yesterday’s Main - Trunk' trains included , Messrs Mills, F. Brown, Baron, Ellis, Kirkwood, Morton, Napier, Ross.'Mr and Mrs Brett, Mr and_ Mrs Harper, Mr and , Mrs Hpton. The Hon. Dr McNab was a passenger . h- yesterday’s outward Main Trunk > Vrain. Mr T. E. CrcESQ was unanimously re-; elected' chairman of the Hawke’s Bay ■ 'County Council at the annual meeting on Wednesday. Captain Jennings (son of Lieutenant-' Colonel Jennings, N.Z.M.C., of Christ- . church) lias been given command of the whole of the machine-guns, of his bat-, taiion on the Somme front.

Sergeant K. X. Gray, N.Z.M.C., Ih4 eldest son of the Rev. E. S. Gray, of Dunedin, has be;n awarded the Milifary Cicss. Sergeant Gray left New Zealand with a special base hospital detach-* raent connected with the lind Battalion, of the New Zealand Rifle' Brigade. Mr H. Cook, formerly cf Christchurch, recently enlisted in Sydniey with tha 4th Reinforcement of'.the -Hot Battalion,

4th Australian Infantry Llrigade, and was shortly afterwaids promoted to tho rank of corporal. Corporal Cook went to Australia about five jrnars ago.. lie. served in tho South African ..war. with, the Blh New Zealand Conti agent, Mr Joseph Bicknei!,. ot * Willow Brook." Buketapu, a well-known pettier of Hawke's Bay. died yesterday at tha age of <>3 years. Bora at the Hutt/ Wei-, lington, in 1853, the deceased wus’ the tan ci Mr John Bieknell.. an old se&ilet* who arrived in the late.“ .Tortres," and settled at Fuketaph on .a .property .Adjoining •'Willow Brook." Alter Rawing school Mr Bieknell commenced farming with his father, but eubiienueatiy sold his interest to Jus brothet, and in kSSJ bought the present piopr-oty. ill Bieknell has held several public posi-' tions, having been a director of tin Hawke’s Bar Parmers' Co-operative Association, steward of the Napier Bark Racing Club, and a member of the local school committee. He married a daughter ot Mr James Murray, an old unionist of Auckland, and had two eonp ana three daughters. .’The Hon. .T. Allen, who left Wellington for Auckland on Wednesday .uighti in connection with recruiting work, proceeds to Mercer Ibis morning. Ho will catch the Auckland .night impress . at Mercer to-night, and is due. hack in Wel-

(irigton to-morrow afternoon. / 1 A Press Assoc.iat ion .from heroin, announces that Sir Hiram - Mqxim Vl .fihp_ well-known inventor of the automatic system of firearms, is critically ill V.’itb pncVuouia.