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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17729, 13 September 1919, Page 10

PERSONAL.

T.he Hon. J. T. Paul arrived from the north on Thursday evening. He will remain in Dunedin over nest week. llr A. D. Park, chief accountant of the IX'partrnent of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, is at present in Dunedin on oilicial business. The Public Service Commissioners have appointed Mr L. I. Grange, assistant geologist, and Mr E. O. Macpherson, field geologist, on the permanent staff of the geobranch . the Mines Department, Wellington. lSot.i are returned soldiers i completing their linai year at Otago Uni-v"-sity School of Mining Engineering. J if ev - H. L. B. Goertz, formerly vicar at Port Chalmers, who has recently returned from the front, has been appointed chaplain of the Anglican Soldiers' Institute at Hotorua, and assumes his duties early in October. Sub-inspector Mathieson, who has been indisposed for the past fortnight, resumed duty yesterday. Pending the arrival of Liiperintendont M'Grath, Sub-inspector Mathieson is acting-superintendent. Tno former will leave Napier on tho 17tli inst. by the Mokoia, and will arrive in Dunedin tno following Saturday or Sunday. In recognition of his valued services in Napior, Superintendent M'Grath received a pre- I sentation from the members of the Napier Police Force. One of Central Otago's early settlers, Mrs Margaret M'Lennan, relict of Alexander M Lennan, pissed away at YVedderburnlast week, at tnc of 78 year?. J no- icite Mrs M'Lennan was a native and together with her husband and family' arrived at Port Ciiaiiners barque i«lciy Qucon in 18/2. After residing on the Kyeburn Station for four years, Mrs M'Lennan's husband left to take up ono of the iirst blocks of land balloted for in the Maniotoro district. Up to the time of her Mrs M'Lennan resided in tho samo district since 1876.' There is a family of four sons and two daughters left to mourn their loss. Captain Bonar Lindsay, P».A.M.C., and Mrs Lindsay, both of whom have been on active service since the outbreak of war, are returning to New Zealand bv the Tainui, which is expected to arrive at Wellington shortly. Captain Lindsay was among the first dozen New Zealanders who enlisted in the Imperial Forecs, and was attached

" to i th u I , St Dorset - He was early in France, and had strenuous work and severe experiences at Hill 60, Ypres, and other battlefields. At the end of 1916 he went out to Mesopotamia, and was stationed at 52 British General Hospital, Amara, where he remained till March of this year. Captain Lindsay intends to practise his profession n 1 t" omin ion. His brother, Major E. U Lindsay, who served in Franco durin" the period of tne war, has returned to Loi? u ll ' t * s ,low °. n the medical staff of the London Hospital. He was reoently awarded a Birthday decoration, Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Major i E. C. Lindsay and Captain A. B. Lindsav are sons of the Rev. George Lindsay, Riccarton, Christchurch, and are both old university students. Mr C-olvillo Barclay, who has been appointed British Minister to Sweden, is a, son of Sir Colville Barclay and a nephew: of Captain \\. M. de R. Barclay, of Wellington. Mr Colville Barclay has been connected Jiith the diplomatic service aJJ hia life. He spent many yeaVs in Eastern Europe, and during the war has acted as counsel to tho British Embassy at Washington, U.S.A. Mr Barclay is only 49 years or age. Captain Barclay has another nephew in tho diplomatic service, Mr SidS e y. Barclay, who is first secretary to the British Embassy at Peking, China. On Wednesday afternoon a number of ladies paid a surprise visit to Mrs Charles fcihaw at her residence at Owaka, and presented her with a roll of notes. Miss Mina Campbell, in a neat and appropriate speech, eulogised Mrs Shaw's valued services dii"tho war in superintending the Ladies' Patriotic Sewing Guild at Owaka and district. The comforts sent from Owaka were much appreciated. Mrs J. Ford and Mrs ilJr) J. S. Stenhouse also spoke in appreciation of Mrs Shaw's services on behalf of the soldiers. Mrs Shaw, in replying, thanked those present for their handsome present.