PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 763, 21 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Messrs S. Harrowell (Auckland) and I 'A. A. Smith (Blenheim) are among the' | guests at the United Service Hotel. j Visitors at Warner's Hotel include | | Messrs J. Shaw J. Park j j (Featherston Gamp), and A. McC.! ('lark ( Auckland). I ! A message from London states that I iSir Douglas Mawson has been gazetted. Embarkation Staff Officer, with the rank iof captain. He will be statio.ned at j Liverpool. I The Very Rev. Father Keogh, S.M., of j !St. Patrick's College, Wellington, who! ;is an inmate of Lewisham Hospital, is j reported to be making good progress to-] wards recovery. i Mr J. R. Triggs, of Christehureh, who! has been appointed Acting-C'ommis -j isioner in Wellington, was present at a j sitting of the Wellington Conciliation .Council on Wednesday. Mr Charles H. McMillan, who has been acting tourist agent at luvercarigill, has gone to Wellington. Mr T. Robieson having been appointed as permanent agent at Invereargill. Professor John Greenwood Tasker, !>.D. (St. Andrew's), principal of the Wesleyan College, Handsworth, Birming ;ham, iias been elected President of the Wesleyan "onfereuce in Great Britain. Mr F. J. L. Whiting, telegraphist, of ! Wanganui, has been elected unopposed jto a seat on the Public Service Superannuation Board, as the representative lof the Post ati'l Telegraph Departme.it. Mr MeAlister, secretary to the Hon. W. Eraser, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and transferred to ! the trench mortar section. He is now I in France, having previouslv served in j Egypt. Mr C. A. E. Ferguson, who has been ion the staff of the legal firm of Messrs Duncan, Cotterill, ami Co. for the last 2.1 years, has resigned his position as : accountant, owing to ill health. He 'intends spending several months in the North Island. The members of the I staff presented Mr Ferguson with a tra veiling rug and cigarette case. j Captain A. C. Crit< hley-Salmonson, who was on loan to the New Zealand '■ Government at the time of the outbreak of war, and who left with the Main Fxpeditionary Force as adjutant to the -! Canterbury Infantry Battalion, is now 'commanding an Egyptian battalion sta. tioned at Khartoum, with the rank of Bunbashir. In his new command ali ■j orders are spoken in Turkish. He had been deemed unlit for active service. owing to a wound received on Galiipoli, when the appointment to the Fgvptiau Army was offered. After the conclusion of the perform anee of " 11..M.5. Pinafore" last evening, the company assembled on the stage, and several presentations were made. Mr Sidney Williamson gave Mr Tom ' j Pollard, (in behalf of Mrs Pollard, a '•silver vase, suitably inscribed, and as ' sured her of the Christehureh Glee and '.Madrigal Society's appreciation of her ; husband's untiring efforts at rehearsals, j Mr Bollard was also given a box of : cigars. Mr Nat Woods, accepted, on J behalf of Mrs Woods, an easy chair j from the members of the company, and , a box of cigars for himself. Mr Woods then presented Mr Williamson with an ''arm" chair, as a token of appreciation ' of his work in training the members for the opera, i- Mr Robert Wilson, son of Sir James 1 !O. Wilson, who was in business in the rjßangitikei and Bush districts, is now -at St. John's Wood Barracks, near Lon ' don, where lie is studying for a com ' | mission in the artillery. Among the 1 New Zealauders Mr Wilson has found f'in England are Mr Elworthy, of South 'Canterbury, and Mr D. Riddiford, oi ' Featherston. who have commissions in 'the Guards, and are now in France. Mi K. D. O'Rorke is buying horses for tin c : Government, and Mr Moncktou, lately '■of Otaki, is in the Sherwood Foresters [j! Captain Button, who was an A.B.C. ii y ! New Zealand two years ago, and went e !awav in chrago of one of the Nelson con ,s . ; t ingents, is now a colonel. He has beer T invalided to London, after being twice ft!wounded.

Messrs L. C. Johnson (Sydney), R. B. .Irvine (Oamaru), J. F. McFarlane j (Hawkswood), H. Jackson (Waimate), |A. Hodges (Waimate), and W. A. Midi lane (Wellington) are staying at the I Clarendon Hotel. Surgeon-General Henderson, who has ibeen to Dunedin in connection with a ;scheme to give military training to ! j students at the O f ago University, passled through Christehureh last night, on i I his way to Wellington. He was aceoni-j jpanied by Major Sleeman. Rider C. C. Holliss, of Opawa, who. I went away in the Ammunition Column' of the 7th Reinforcement, and served j 'as a dispatch rider in Egypt, is now in! i the firing line in France, where he has. been promoted to the position of oh- : server and telegraphist on the Head- ; quarters Staff. A. farewell social to Private William ! Sandford, who is now on final leave, wis' given in the Dickens Street Hall on ! Wednesday evening by his fellow-work-1 ; ers at Addington Workshops. There. . Iwere about 200 present. An excellent ' programme was given by Mrs Re.es and . j Messrs Rattery, Jackson, ('rase, <ilover,: !Jones, Sandford, Davis, and Reg. Hill. [in the course of the evening a presen 'itation of a money belt and a wristlet '■watch was made to Private Sandford by ■ Mr Jackson, on behalf of the employees, :at the workshops. . | .