PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 699, 8 May 1916, Page 4

PERSONALS.

1 ' ■■— • Colonel B. Heaton Rhodes, M.P., left for the north on Saturday evening. The Hon. James Allen, Minister of Defence, is visiting the south, lie returns north this evening. The Rev. W. H. A. Viekery, of Auckland, ias accepted a call to the Alicetown Congregational Church, Lower Hutf. Mr C. A. McMillan, of Wellington, will take charge of the Tourist Office at Tnvercargill, in succession to Mr Ilargest, who is going into camp. Nurse Bowie, of Seadown, who was invalided home from Egypt at the end of last year, has recovered sufficiently to return to duty. She left Temuka on Friday to resume work under the military authorities. Mr W. Slaughter, Inspector of Awards at Wellington, has been promoted, as the late Mr W. J. Culver's successor, to the position of Inspeetor-in-Charge of the Labour Department at Palmerston North. Dr E. W. Sharman, of Auckland, who has been in charge of the medical services at Rangiotu Camp for some time past, has been called upon to take charge, as principal medical officer, of a transport. He has had the rank of major conferred upon him. The Rev. E. Palgravc Davy, superintendent of the New Zealand Children's Mission, arrived on Saturday from Auckland, and contemplates holding missions for children in the Canterbury Province during the next few weeks. Mr Davy's headquarters will be at the Y.M.C.A., Christchurch. Mrs H. ,1. Besvvick has received advice concerning the condition of her brother, Lieut. J. F. Mills, of the King's Royal Rilles. Lieut. Mills, who is a son of Sir James Mills, received wounds at Salonica which the War Office reported as "serious." He was removed to hospital at Malta, where he had been undergoing treatment for a considerable time. He has now been sent to England, and is reported to be making good progress towards recovery.

The many friends of Mr .James Willis, of the firm of Willis and Aiken, will learn with regret that he is lying in a critical state at his home at St. Albans. Miss Arnott. who has been on the staff of the Palmerston North High School for the past six years, latterly as mistress, is to take up the position of senior mistress at the Ashburton High School. At the break-up of the school term on Friday, Miss Arnott was the recipient of a rug and rase from the pupils and a jewel case from the teaching staff. The rector, Mr J. E. Vernon, made the presentations. Mr W. W. De Castro, District Land Registrar and Deputy-Commissioner of StaTiips at Invercargill, who completed 40 years of service in the department last year, but deferred his retirement in consequence of abnormal departmental conditions created by the war, has now forwarded his resignation to the head of the department, and expects to be relieved from duty and to retire on suprannuation on the .'ilst inst. News has been received in Wellington to the effect that Lieut.-Colonel I. (iethen Hughes, D.5.0., C.M.G. (son-in-law of. Mr Robert O'Connor, of The Terrace, Wellington, is expected to return to the Dominion about the end of next month. Colonel Hughe-: left as staff officer to Major-General Si-r Alex. Godley, Main Body, and was afterwards placed in command of the Canterbury Battalion. He was invalided to England, and came out of hospital after four months' treatment. His name appeared in a recent Court Circular giving a list of those officers who appeared before the King for the investiture of the. Orders into which they had been admitted.