PERSONAL ITEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3397, 23 April 1919, Page 47

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Messrs W. H. Thomson and Hugh Glass are gazetted as members of the Wanaka Islands Domain Board. At last week's meeting of the University Council the Professorial Board recommended the following awards of scholarships:—Sir G. Grey, Miss N. H. Woods; Beverly (adv. physios), Miss D. J. Lambeth. The board also recommended the appointment of student demonstrators and student assistants as follows:—Physics, G. M. Salt, £lO 10s; T. C. Marwick, D. Lambeth, N. M. Woods, £25 each. Biology—Messrs feld, B. Kitchen, Sawers, and Minn; chemistry—Messrs H. E. Dyer, A. S. Hogg, G. A. Holmes, F. H. M'Dowall and O. C. Stephens, at £lO 103 each; physiology, J. H. H. Wood, at £l2 12s; mathematics, G. M. Salt, £lO 10s, The recommendations were adopted. The Press understands that Mr R. L. Fisher has been appointed general manager, and that Mr D. J. Shea has been promoted to be secretary, of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company. Mrs A. W. Andrew, Cashmere Hills, has received a cable stating that General Andrew will return to New Zealand shortly, from Mesopotamia, where he has been serving during the war. A very old resident of Auckland (Mrs Margaret Haslam) died on Tuesday week in her ninetieth year. Deceased was born at Burhampur. India, in 1830. She arrived in Auckland in the year 1815 with her parents in the ship Mary Ann. M The following educational* appointments have been made:— Miss Janet W. Aitken, assistant in secondary department at the Tapanui D.H.S. 5 Mr J. Melville, head master of the Hampden School; Mr G. Swann, third assistant at the Green Island School; Miss Lucy E. D. Smith, mistress at the Roxburgh School; Miss Jane Marwick, mistress at the Pine Hill School. At the conclusion of the special meetjng of the Harbour Board last week, the chairman • (Mr W. Wilkinson) made a presentation of a silver rose bowl, suitably inscribed, to Mr M'Gregor Wilkie ; the board's resident engineer, on the occasion of his marriage. A Press Assocfatioh message from Wellington states that the Rev. A. M. Johnson, vicar of St. Paul's, Wellington, has been appointed archdeacon of the diocese of Wellington in succession to tho late Archdeacon Fancourt. The appointment of the following members of Revaluation of Lands Committees for the current year is notified in the Gazette:—Northern portion of the Auckland Land District, Mr H. B. Matthews; southern portion of the Auckland Land District, Mr James Boddie; Poverty Bay portion of the Hawke's Bay Land District, Mr 0- E. Bartram; southern portion of the Hawke's Bay Land District, Mr P. Pattullo; Taranaki Land District, Mr W. A. M'Cutchan; Wellington Land District, Mr G. R. Wright; Nelson Land District, Mr T. Hewetson; Marlborough Land District, Mr W. B. Stevenson; northern portion of tho Canterbury Land District, Mr- F. G. Horrell;' southern portion of the Canterbury Land District, Mr James Scott; Westland Land District, Mr William Wilson; Otago Land District, Mr Patrick Kinney; Southland Land District, Mr W. J. A. M'Gregor. Constable W. C. Brown, who, resigned from the Police Force about 18 months ago in order to proceed on active service, has rejoined the force, and has taken up duty in Dunedin. The Invercargill Town Council has_ appointed Mr Frank Burwell to the position of town clerk at a salary of £4OO per annum. It is understood that Superintendent Kiely, of tho Police Force, who is well known in Dunedin, where he was stationed for some time many years ago, will retire from tho service at the end of the current year. Tho Clutha Presbytery, at its meeting on the 15th, sustained a call from Waitahuna to the Rev. Mr Bandy, of Nightcaps. The call will be considered by the Southland Presbytery at an early meeting. Mr P. G. Morgan, Director of. the New Zealand Geological Survey, is in Christchurch. He has visited St. Bathans, Clarendon, and other places in Central Otago, to inquire into the possibility of working deep leads in gravels there in which gold has been fottnd, and which now are being worked by sluicing. He will report to the government on hi 3 inquiries. Mr W. H. Duke, of London street, has received advice that his son, Lieutenant diaries Robert Duke, has been promoted to captain. Captain Duko left Sydney with the Main Body of the A.I.F. Mr Joseph Morris, eldest son of the late Joseph Morris, of Sawyers' Bay, whose death has been announced at Ashhurst, was born in Linlithgow, Scotland, in 1857, and oamo to New Zealand with his parents in tho ship Silistria, which arrived at Port Chalmers in 1860. He resided at Sawyers' Bay for 35 years, when he went to Haunui, in North Wairarapa, to take up sheep farming with his brothers, where he lived till two years ago, when he retired to Ashhurst. He was highly; esteemed by all who knew him for his genial and kindly disposition. On March 25 ha had an apoplectic seizure, and passed away on March 30. Ho leaves a wife, four brothers, and three sisters. Tho congregation of St. David's Presbyterian Church, Sydenham, has decided to send a call to the Rev. J. D. Webster, of Stirling, Otago. The call will bo dealt with at a special meeting of tho Ohristchurch Presbytery, to be held on Monday.