PERSONALS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1623, 28 April 1919, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Sir James Allen will visit Dunedin this week. On Friday he will be entertained at luncheon by the Otago Expansion League, ami on the same afternoon lie will address the annual meeting of the Navy League. Mr Justice Herdman arrived in Christchurch from the north yesterday niormng. Messrs W. A. Banks aud R. Ball have been appointed by the Governor-in-Council" as members of the Rangiora High School Board.

Signaller John Brennan, son of Mrs Herbert Fraser, 32 St. John Street, Woolston, has returned to Sydney after three years' service at the front with the Australian Expeditionary Force. Amongst the officers returning to New Zealand bv the Northumberland is Major A. S. Falconer, D.5.0., M.C., of Mosgiel, Dunedin, who left with the Main Body as a sergeant in the Otago Infantrv Battalion.

Mrs J. S. Hines, of Redcliffs, has received advice that her husband, Lieut. J. 8. Jlines 1.'.N.V.R., who left as a member of the Motor Boat Patrol, is qnite well. He is now attai bed to the Mine-sweeping Flotilla off the Belgian coast. Lieutenant-Colonel G. Mitchell, D.5.0., of Waikiwi, Invercargill, is returning to New Zealand in charge of the troops ou the Northumberland. He left New Zealand with the 2ml Reinforcement as a major in the Otago Infantry Battalion. The death is announced of Mr Archibald F. McMinn, who some years a,go was a prominent Wairarapa and New Zealand representative football player. On account of ill-health during recent years he was obliged to give up newspaper work, in which he was engaged at Carterton and Mastertou. He was the third son of Mr and Mrs Alexander McMinn, of Auckland. Mr Frederick Ernest Shera, a wellknown Auckland solicitor, died Remuera ou Wednesday last, after a thort illness. For many years Mr Shera had been connected with the legal practice of the Hon. J. A. Tole, K.C. As a young man, he studied medicine in Dublin, but when he came out to New Zealand he entered the legal profession.