PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 871, 24 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Visitors to the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs M. Hawkins (Wellington), H. S. Cornford (Feikling). Messrs C. G. Macindoe (Auckland), and W. Garnett (Melbourne) are staying at the United Service Hotel. Messrs A. P. Harris (San Francisco) and J. E. Rothschild (Wellington) are among the guests at Warner's Hotel. A Press Association cablegram from London states that "Sir Hiram Maxim, the great inventor, is critically ill with pneumonia. Private advice has been received to the effect that Sergeant Norman Henley, sou of Mr W. Henley, of St. Albans, who was wounded in France, has now recovered. Sergeant Henley has also been awarded the Military Medal Mr J. Cotter, of the Timaru telephone exchange, who has been promoted to a responsible position in the Christchurch Exchange, was on Wednesday evening met by the Timaru staff and presented with a silver tea service. Mr E. Grant, the director of the Timaru Technical School, who has been transferred to Christchurch under the Canterbury Education Board, was on Tuesday evening made the recipient of several presentations from the students. Letters received lately from Lieut. T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., state that the injury to his knee did not prevent him taking an active part in the big "push" on the Somme. Lieutenant Stewart Seddon is still in the firing line in France, and is in good health. Advice has been received in Wellington that Lieutenant William Healv, the eldest son of Mr W. F. Healy, of Wellington, has received the Military Cross. Lieutenant Healy has been serving with the Australian Infantry Forces since the beginning of the war. The following cablegram has been received in Auckland from Bishop Geary, who is at present at Folkestone, England: "Going to fill a vacancy in chaplaincy in France. My health has greatly improved. I have been chaplain in an English camp hospital." Mr W. Clark, of "Old Farm," Orari, has been advised by cable that his son Lieutenant S. A. Clark is leaving England for New Zealand. Lieutenant Clark left New Zealand with the Main Body, and was invalided home from Callipoli. He won his commission in the field. Lieutenant-Colonel T. A. Hunter, N.Z.D.C., Director of Dental Services, is leaving New Zealand for England this week for the purpose of organising the New Zealand Dental Service abroad. Lieutenant-Colonel Hunter will probably be absent for a period of nine months, during which time he will visit England, the Western front, and Egypt. Major J. N. Eishworth will succeed him in New Zealand. Miss Elsie Griffin, who was for four years secretary to the Dunedin branch of the Young Women's Christian Association, has accepted the appointment as secretary to. the Auckland branch. Miss Griffin, who was a graduate of the Auckland University College, is at present completing a term at the Association's National Training School in New York. She will take up her duties about next August, when the Association's new building in Auckland will be nearly completed. At the Technical College on Tuesday evening the senior students of the typographical class made a presentation of a silver cigarette case to their instructor, Mr J. Petterd. The presentation was made in recognition, not only of Mr Petterd's services as instructor, but also as an appreciation of the help he had givou outside the ordinary scope of the duties of his position. The principal of the College (Mr Howell) made the presentation, and his eulogistic references to the recipient were seconded by Mr J. Wykcs (a student) and a representative of the Typographical Union.