PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 561, 26 November 1915, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Major Kelly was a passenger by the ferry steamer this morning. Messrs D. Friedlander (Ashburton) and W. H. Edwards (Wellington) are staying at the United Service Hotel.

The Eev; F. T. Read will leave Dunedin for Wellington on Monday to take up his duties as chaplain in the hospital' ship Marama. <'

The Ven Archdeacon and Mrs York returned to Greymouth on Wednesday, after an absence of 16 months, spent in England and France. Mr W. G. Wiekham, British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, has been, appointed to South Africa, and will leave at the end of the year. Visitors to Christehureh staying at the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs J. Hassall (Napier), H. Naphtah (Dunedin), and W. B. Staveley and S. Shire (Gallipoli), ...,■■= Messrs H. W. Todd (Sydney), C. H. Will, and D. Bernstein (Dunedin), and P. Horspool: (Auckland) are visiting Christehureh. They are staying at Warner's Hotel.

Advice from Wellington states that . Mr M..W. Welsh has been elected chairman of the Hutt County. Council, and Mr J. Mohaghan chairman of the Makara 'County Council. On the occasion of his leaving for the North Island, Mr J. R. Monnie was the recipient of a brief bag from his fellowemployees in the clothing factory of the Kaiapoi Woollen Manufacturing Co. Messrs E. E. Gillon, A. W. Hutchings, and D. P. Williams (Wellington), J. N. - Miller and W. Ramsay (Timaru), and M. Simpson and A. G. Hansen (Dun-, edin) are among the latest guests at Coker's Hotel. "Mr G. A, Greenwood, who has been manager of the Ashburton branch of the Bank of New South Wales for the past four years, has received notice of his transfer to Masterton. He will take up his tifew duties in about a week's time. •• " - Mr W. G. K. Kenriek, S.M. at Hawera, has found it necessary, for health reasons, to take a rest, and he has been granted extended leave, which will commence on December 6. Mr Has.elden, S.M., will temporarily take up the Magisterial work in the Hawera district. - The Rev. G. W. Christian, vicar of Lower Riccarton, has received information that his son, Bombardier C. J. - Christian, who left as a driver with the Artillery in the Main Force, has been • promoted to the rank of quartermastersergeant, and is now stationed at Zeitoun Camp, Egypt.