PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 867, 20 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Mr P. N. Eiby (Timaru) is staying; at the United Service Hotel. Mr J. McCormick, the well-known luvcrcargill professional golfer, will leave shortly for camp. Visitors to Warner's Hotel include Messrs A. E. Jull (Waipawa) and W. J. Snorrell (Dunedin). Professor J. Mecmillan Brown returned to Christehurch yesterday morning, after a visit to Wellington. Lieut.-Colonel F. A. Lindsay (Pahnerston North) and Mr P. M. Thomson are among the guests at the Clarendon. Mr Harald A. Bowden, touring manager for Messrs J. and N. Tait, arrived in Christchurch on Saturday to arrange for the local season of "Peg o' My Heart." Letters received in Christchurch recently convey the information that Lieut.-Colonel G. J. Smith has been appointed major in the Sling Camp, England. Dr Scannell, of Temuka, has been advised by cable that his brother, Captain W. G. Scannell, N.Z.M.C., is leaving London to-day, on his return to New Zealand. The Rev. T. Halliday, of the Lansdowne (Wairarapa) Presbyterian Church has been advised that his services have been accepted in connection with Y.M.C.A. work in France. Mr J. McNaughton, who has managed the Hokitika branch of the National Bank for many years, has been appointed to the charge of the Greymouth branch. Mr Stewart, of Stratford, will succeed him at Hokitika. Mr Francis C. Tipping, an old resident of Hastings, died on Friday, aged 74. Mr Tipping arrived in New Zealand 56 years ago, and settled in Auckland. Later he went to Canterbury, and some :10 years afterwards settled in Hastings. Mr A. A. Winslow, Consul-Goncral in New Zealand for the United States, has left on a tour of the south. It is his intention to visit all the towns of importance in the South Island, and to see as much as possible of the industrial ami agricultural centres. Sister Bertha Duke, N.Z.A.N.S., returned last Tuesday to New Zealand, after being absent nearly 12 months in I Egypt ami England. She came to Melj bourne on the hospital ship Martina, i leaving there for Tasmania, in order to visit friends. Sister Duke is at present on duty at the Trenthaui Military Hospital. Word has been received by Mrs John Barton, of Trentham, that her son, Mr Wilfred Barton, who was in an aviation school in England, has been obliged to return to New Zealand, owing to bronchial asthma. He was one of ten, who, out of 200, succeeded in passing the efficiency examination. He secured lirst place in the examination. Mr Hermann Henry Rolfes, an old resident of Kaikoura,'died on Saturday afternoon in his seventy-ninth year. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but bad resided in New Zealand for over 50 vears, nearly 40 of which were spent in Kaikoura. Mr Rolfes was engaged in jllie Telegraph Department until his j sixty-fifth year, when ho retired on a pension . He carried out several lengths I of line construction in the North Island.

The appointment, is announced of Mr Arthur .'I. Gillman to the position of junior resident master at the Napier Boys' High School, in succession to Mr S. K. Siddells, who has enlisted. Mr Giliiua.il lias had a brilliant scholastic career, being dux of the George Street School, Dunedin, and a scholarship holder at. the Otago Boys' High School. lie enlisted some time ago, and left for camp, but was subsequently discharged on account of pneumonia.