PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10632, 3 July 1920, Page 3

PERSONALIA

VICE-REGAL. Their Excellencies the _ Governor* General and Countess of Liverpool at* tended St. Alark’s .Day School yesterday morning, and said good-byo to tho children. . Their Excellencies wero received hy the principal, Miss Holm, and tho vicar, tbo Kev. Mr Page, and Lord Liverpool briefly addressed tho classes. Air F, J. Nathan lias left Sydney for New Zealand. Ho is coming by, tlitf Ulimaroa,. Mr J. AI. Stevenson, Alayor of Port Chalmers, has returned from a trip tothe North Island. Air F. J. Steel has relinquished tho position of secretary to the Mastorton Horticultural Society. Mr T. AI. Wilford, AI.P. for the Hutt, is shortly returning from Sag Francisco by the Tolua. Air W. Benton has been elected to succeed Air A. C. Holms on the Feathcrston Borough Council. Air Quinn, stationmastcr at Masterton, is at present on holiday. Ho is being relieved by Air Boswell, of tha Upper Hutt. Colonel H. J. AloLean, of the New Zealand Army Aledical Corps, has been demobilised and has resumed the practice of his profession in Wellington. Colonel G. T. Hall has been appointed Officer-in-Charge of Administration, New Zealand Alilitary Forces, in tha United Kingdom.

Mr J. H. Coleman has promised a donation of £SOO to the Hawke’a Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society —and more if necessary.

Midshipman R. O. Pock ley, R.A.N.j who has been on a farewell visit to his parents in Wellington, has left for Sydney to join H.M.S. Renown.

Mr F. Symes, bank manager at Foxton, is retiring, and will live at Wanganui. He is to be succeeded at Foxton by Mr Poole, of Nelson.

Mr W. Jennings, M.P. for Waitomo, arrived in Wellington yesterday, and was sworn in. in the House of Representatives.

Mr Thomas Ellison, who has been » resident of New Zealand since 1864, died at Auckland this week. Deceased was 01 years of age.

Mr G. W. W. B. Hughes, national general secretary of the Y.M.0.A., ia at present in Hamilton >n connection with the forthcoming building campaign.

Mr Frank Goldberg, managing direct tor of the Goldberg Advertising Agency, has gone to Christchurch in connection with the establishment of a branch in that city.

Lieut.-Conimandcr. Roland Bourke, V.C., who lately toured New Zealand under tho auspices of the Navy League, recently arrived in Auckland and is proceeding to Canada. ,

Recent appointments to positions,, ia the Public Health Department include Dr T. McKibbon as District Health Officer, and Er J. Boyd as AssistantDistrict Health. Officer, Auckland.

Mr P. J. O’Regan. is at present confined. to his house as the result of n cold contracted on the West Coast while attending tho sittings of the Supremo Court there.

Mr B. R. Gardiner. 1 of Levin, wht has been severely ill for the pash three months, is now improving. Though still very weak, he was able to leave kb room foifl a few hours this week.

Sir Arnold Gridley left Wellingtoit on' Thursday on visits to Auckland. Rotorua, and Hamilton, etc. He will return to Wellington towards the end of next week.

Brigadier-General G. N. who commanded the New Zealand Artillery on Gallipoli and in Prance, hn* relinquished his appointment of New Zealand military representative in the United Kingdom, and been struck off the strength, of the N.Z.E.F.

]Mr J. H. Finney, who succeeds M* John Glen as secretary of the Nelson Jockey Club, has been a prominent member and official of the olub for r number of years. (Mr Finney was pari proprietor (with Mr, XNjrcy Bond) of the Nelson “Colonist,” which ceased publication recently.

Major H. J. Daltry, who left Not# Zealand as lieutenant with the Howitzer Battery, N.Z.E.F., in 15)14, and who received his majority and the H.S.O. in Franco in 1916, has joined the Australasian department ol Messrs Gordon Woodroffe and Company, in London.

Mr T. S. Tankard who leaves thit mouth for England, is to bo farewclled by members of tho Christchurch 1'.M.0.A;. of which institution ho ha# been physical director for tho past 12 years. Mr Spencer Groen, of Sydney, who was on war service in Franco in connection with tho Y.M.C.A., will take ill- Tankard’s place.

Mr B- J- Lynncberg has been roelected president of the Onslow Progressive Association, and other officers are as follow: —Vice-president. Messrs A. Hamilton and A. Seed; secretary, Mr P. F. Hodson; treasurer, Mr E. Hobbs; committee. Messrs Clark, Flaws, Terrain. Meek, Worsfold aw McCall

Two appointments to the Treasury Department have been announced. Ml H. Hawthorn, formerly clerk in charge, Pay and Revenue branches. Welling, toil, has been appointed chief clerk, Wellington, whila Air G. C. Rodda, divisional clerk, Wellington, has bcccnu clerk in charge leans and ledgers, 'Wellington.

The late Arthur Edward Moore, rhs was a victim of the recent express accidcnc on ./uno 2*3ih, was a native o? Cly do quay, Wellington. The late Mi .Moore was a bachelor, and receded it. Newtown with his sitter, Miss Moore. Ho has another Ulster, Mrs Uorg? (wife of Lieutenant. W. R. Burge. M.C.). ITo was better -known ,to a large circle of friends as “Pony” Mooro A true comrade and an enthusiastic sportsman, the late Mr Moore, who was a prominent Oddfellow, being a Past Grand Master and Secretary ol the Zoalandia Lodge, will be sorely missed by hie friends and associates.

Regular auction sales of motor-can, br Stanton’s. Ltd., lb, Molesworth street, will be held at their garage. Entrier. are now being taken. ’Phon*, 2240.