PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 963, 13 March 1917, Page 4

PERSONALS.

The resignation of Mr F. K. J>e Castro, Secretary of Education, is announced. Dr Stephenson, of Dunedin, has l)eoi) accepted for military service, and will go into camp immediately. Mr. Edward Saunders, of the "Dominion " literary staff, is accompanying yjr Ernest Shackleton as far as SydneyMr. John Fuller, sen., of Auckland, who has just completed a motor tour of the South Island, is now visiting Wellington. Passengers by the s.s. Maori this morning included Messrs Walter Hill, G. Fenwick, T. 11. Davev, W. Reese, J. C. Maddison, and W. Or!.ell. Mr Griffith, of the Dunedin Electrical Department, has been appointed to replace Mr W'illoughbv as officer in charge of the Christchureh City Council's electricity showroom. It is stated that Mr 11. Lan Simson, who was defeated by Sir John Findlay, in last week's Parliamentary election, has decided to contest the next Mayoralty election for Hastings. The Hon. G. W. "Russell arrived by the Maori to-day, and proceeded to Balclutha by the first express, for the purpose of meeting the delegates attending the Fire Brigades Conference. Col. R. A. Chaffey, V.D., arrived by the Maori this morning. He has been on an official visit of inspection to the West Coast. He was accompanied by Capt. McDonald. The council of the Chamber of Commerce, of which the late Mr A. 11. Turnbull was a member, was to have held its monthly meeting yesterday, but, after passing a resolution of sympathy, the meeting was adjourned. Mr Edwin Clark, who has had 42 years of service in' the Post and Tele graph Department, and for the past eight years has been postmaster at the Symonds Street Post Office, Auckland, is retiring on superannuation on April 1. The post of chief musketry instructor to the New Zealand military camps changed hands on Monday, when Captain Wallingford. who won the Military Cross at Gallipoli, took over front Captain Punlon. Captain Purdon will leave i shortly on active service. He has held j the post of military instructor since the camps were established, and his work has been regarded as of the very best. Gunner Douglas Keir Gibb, who arrived in Wellington by the hospital ship Marama on Wednesday last, died at the Victoria Military Hospital on Saturday afternoon, from cerebrospinal meningitis, contracted during the voyage out. The late Gunner Gibb was the elder son of Mr and Mrs G. F. Gibb, of Central Terrace, Kelburn. He left with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and went through the Gallipoli campaign, afterwards serving in France, being wound ed on the Somme in October last. Mrs M. Lahman, of 256 Hereford Street, has received a letter from France from her son, Gunner Fred Lahman, who left with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and who has been on active service ever since, in EgJ'Pt> Gallipoli, and France. Gunner Lahman seems to have borne a charmed life, as so far he has never had even a day's sickness. When l.e wrote, he was looking forward to a trip to Ireland, the home of his parents, as he had just received notification that he was to be granted leave, after two years and three mouths' continuous service in the field. Dr Win. 11. Hosking, the best-known medical man in the Wairarapa district, died on Sunday, at the age of 75 years. The deceased was a native of Cornwall, England, and came to New Zealand in ISti.'f. He practised his profession at the Bluff, and later at Hokitika and Ross (on the West Coast). He took up his residence in Masterton in 1875, and had resided there ever since. In his later years he took up the study of radiography, and his services were much sought after by patients from all parts of the Dominion. For many years he had been a Justice of the Peace. Dr Hosking was twice married. He leaves a widow, four sons, and one daughter. His eldest son is Dr Archer Hosking, of Masterton.