PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 882, 7 December 1916, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Sir James Mills passed through Christehureh last evening, on his way to Wellington. Colonel Chaffey, 0.C.D., will visit the camp of the 13th Regiment at Omato, near Greymouth, next week. Messrs W. D. .Tamieson (Melbourne), H. J. Jenkins (Wellington), and T. 11. Glendining (Dunedin) are among the guests at Warner's Hotel. Messrs O. G. Kemper (Wellington.) T. M. Wilford (Wellington), S. R. Lancaster (Palmerston North) are staying at the United Service Hotel.

Messrs T. Bullock (Ashburton), J. Talbot (Timaru), J. C. McGeorge (Dunedin), and E. W. Cardale (Wellington) are staying at (Joker's Hotel.

Visitors to the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs R. C. Whittaker (Wellington), F. Barber (Wellington), W. Lindquist( Washington, U.S.A.), C. W. Rushbrook (Wellington). According to private advice received in Christehureh, the Rev. Father Price, who has been for some months past on the western front, has been invalided to England. He expects to leave for NewZealand as soon as as he is sufficiently recovered to travel.

Major W. Kay, of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, was recently reported to have been wounded while on service in France. Cabled news was received in Auckland this week by relatives that the injuries suffered by Major Kay were to the head. Mr Geoffrey Nye, who is very well known in p'icfare circles throughout Australasia, arrived in Wellington from Sydney by the Manuka on Monday to take over the general managership of the New Zealand Picture Supplies. Mr Nye has for some years past represented the company in Australia. Private advice has been received in Wellington that Lieut. F. M. Turner, of the Royal New Zealand Artillery, who left with the Main Body of the Expeditionary Forces, has been awarded the Military Cross. He has also been promoted to the rank of captain, and is now officer commanding No. 12 Battery.

On the eve of his retirement on superannuation, Mr .7. I?. Hooper, senior parcels clerk of the Tost and Telegraph Department, Auckland, received a presentation from his fellow-officers. In making the presentation, the Chief Postmaster (Mr Williamson) stated that since Mr Hooper took over the parcels business at Auckland 24 years ago, Hie work in the district had increased twenty-fold.

Mention was made at to-day's meeting of the Canterbury Education Board of the resignation, on superannuation, of Miss M. Pearson, second assistant mistress at the Geraldino District High School. It was stated that Miss Pearson had spent practically a lifetime in the employ of the South Canterbury Education Board, having been in Geraldine for 1!) years. It was decided to record the hoard's appreciation of Miss Peargon's services. Mr William Garrett, sen., of Mount Eden, Auckland, died on Sunday morning. He was talking to his son, Bombardier .1. T. Garrett, when, without any warning of previous indisposition, lie suddenly expired. Mr Garrett was a native of County Oavan, Ireland, having come to New Zealand in the ship Lady Jocelyn, as a member of a party of settlers'under Mr (i. Vesey Stewart's Katikati Settlement scheme. Before long Mr Garrett went to Te Puke, and for some time held the position of Government Valuer. Later on he resigned his position in the Government, ami started business as a land and estate agent in Auckland.

The Rev. I. Sarginson, of the Congregational Chun-h, Timaru, has beeii called to the pastorship of the Congregational Church at St. Clair, Dunedin. He has decided to accept the call, and will close his ministry at Timaru on December 31. The death occurred at Tigorangi (Taranaki) on Saturday of Mr Richard Hicks, aged 99 years.' The late Mr Hicks, together with his wife and family, came out to New Zealand from Devonshire in the 'seventies, and afterwards he took up land at Tikorangi. He had resided in the district ever since.