PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14293, 23 December 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL.

nft ?f"i W;£- Reeves > Instructor of the School of Economics, has (states a London correspondent) been elected Dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of London.

Mr. Ahck Graham, the well-known Alpine guide, of Westland, who was drawn in- the second ballot, enlisted' fcoine months ago, and has been in the Awapuni camp for some weeks-

A^'' ?• °- Grigg ' writing to an Ashburton resident, stated that he had: *"ten«ed to return to New Zealand by the Rotorua, but owing to work in hand in connection with soldiers' camps, he had cancelled his sailing- -arrangements.

Captain F. A. Beit, of thS New Zealand Medical Corps, who was a member of the; staff of the hospital ship Maheno, and has 'been on active service since January last, returned to Nelson, yesterday. /'

Though the Bishop of Nelson is making some progress towards recovery from his indisposition, it -will be yet some time before he is able to leave his residence.

.Mr. F. W. Mansfield, formerly Re-gistrar-General, who has retired from the Government service on superannuation, wa-s farewelled by "the staff and presented with a handsome writing desk as a mark of the esteem in which ne had been held by those associated with him.

Miss Isabel Maude Peacocke, who tor the past ten years has been m charge of the Lower SchooJ at theDilworth Institute, Auckland, has resigned from her position. Miss Peacocke, who is well-known as the author of several successful books, intends Co devote her time to literary work

Corporal Charles E. Stewart,' of Richmond who was ill in hospital in Engiand, has cabled to his parents saying that he has recoveied and is touring Scotland.

The Defence Department advises that [Corporal Arthur Reginald Deschler of ,J Company, Twenty-third Reinforcements, died in Featherston Military Hospital on Tuesday, the cause of death .- being pleuro-pneumonia. The deceased who was 31 years of age, was the third A? nrP f T,Mr? 1 N- ' J- ' Rein and the late . -Mr C. Deschler, of Invercargill.

Mr. H. H. G. Ealfe, clerk of tho Magistrate's Court in Auckland, will retire from the Government service on superannuation early in the New Year. Mr. Ralfe has be.en granted threo months' leave of absence as from March Ist, on which date he will cease his official duties. It is his intention to make his home, after retirement, ir. the Nelson district.

«.??• . Alexander Ferguson, who for tnirty-two years has held tho highly responsible position of manager oAho Chnstchurch branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, is about to sever his connection with the instituH Onx^ lti 1 wkich ho has bee» so long identified. It is understood that the management has made .arrangemen ts to enable the veteran manager to reT% m b ™ary next, when Mr. C. J. Ronaldson, the present manager aft Invercargill, will take up the duties.