PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14352, 2 March 1917, Page 3

PERSONAL.

_ Sergt.-Major" W. T. Churchward, of Blenheim, has been successful (says the "Express") in passing his examination enabling him to receive a, commission in the New Zealand Forces.

In the Supreme Court at Wellington' this "week Mr Justice Chapman ad-! mitted Mr Claud Russell Sainsbury of i Nelson, as a- solicitor. .Mr- F. Pirani, of .the "Feilding Star," has been appointed chairman of the Press Association for tho ensuing year.—Press Association. -°

Miss Winifred Betts, of Nelson, lias received ad\ice that she has-passed the examination for- the M.Sc. degree, gaining first-class honours in Botany;

Dr. A. K. Newman, M.P. for Wellington East, who has been on a visit to Britain and France, has returned to Wellington.

Miss Connie Shields, elder daughter of Mr Joshua Shields, of Nelson -who is a student at Victoria College, has passed her B.A. degree, and obtained a senior university scholarship in English literature. ••' °

Tlie annual ordination service in connection with the Metiiodist Conference was held .at the Wesley Ohurch Taranaki street, Wellington. The following ministers were ordained: Revs. R B Gosnell, Percy Battey, and H. T. Pent

Major-General R. H. Davies, a New Zealand officer who has been on loan to tho Imperial authorities, relinquished his rank and appointment on the New Zealand Staff Corps on being' transl'erred to the Imperial Army as from February, 1915.—Press Association.

j Mr J. Fitz-Gerald, Clerk of 'the Court at Nelson, has been advised that he has pacsed as a barrister, being successful in the following subjects:Roman law, international law, jurisprudence, and constitutional history. Mr FitzAJer.ald has also passed his cxi animation under the Education Doj partment in jurisprudence, constitu- : rtional history, and accountancy. l

The death occurred recently of Mr. Archie McDonell, at hjis residence, Parewanui, Bulls. He was the eldest son of "Mrs. A. McDonell, who still resides at, "Inverhoe," Bulls. The deceased, who was born in 1850, had the distinction of being the first white, child born in Rangitikei, and at the time of his death he was the oldest native interpreter in New Zealand. .

Mr. Cecil. M.: Hill, chief pilot at theHendon'^viafipn■■.School, has been.ap- ;. instructor fby the• ".pauter'feury |;Aviation Company, which is establishing a flying school in the--vicinity of: Chnstchurch. At the Newspaper Proprietors' Association conference at Wellington a pre- ! sentation of a travelling bag was made '. on behalf of the provincial section of 1 the association, to Mr F. Pirani, in recognition of his' many services to rthe : country papers: Particular references were made to Mr Pirani's special services iin connection with the typographical dispute recently before the Oon-r ciliation Council and at the conferencei arranged at the request of the AiJbitra- : tion Court. I Mr Robert Bell proprietor of the | <fAshburto9 Guardian," has received a cable stating that his eldest son, Corporal Boot. B. Bell, who left with the Seventeenth Reinforcements, is dangerously ill in France with gunshot wounds! in the neck. Mr Bell's youngest boh, ...Lieutenant Harold Bell, is at- present an inmattf of Codford Hospital, Eng land; Corporal Bell is well known: in New Zealand-newspaper-citcleg, among the younger menibersof which \ especially in the provincial section, he has held a prominent. position.—-Press; Association. : -■-■/;> V-/"'..:■.. '..7.';: .. - •.>■> . ':: ■'/'". ■:■ ;" j Mr. J. L, H. Ledger, Controller' of ! Money Orders and Savings Banks, in the Post : and Telegraph Department, has. severed his connection with the Government .service. Before leaving he was. presented by the Secretary of; the Post and Telegraph Department (Mr. W. R. Morris), on behalf of the \ staff, with valuable marks of esteem.'. The New; Plymouth Hospital Board accepted with regret the resignation of Mr. 0., P. Bastings, dispenser and house steward at the hospital; and Mr. C. F. E. Perrin, of Masterton, a returned soldier, was appointed to fill . the vacancy. i

Major Morrison, at one time general staff officer of the Wellington military district, has been appointed to a similar position in the Canterbury-district, where he will relieve Major Finnis, who goes on active service. It will be rsmembered (says the "Manawatu Standard") that Major Morrison returned from the front three months ago, and was sent to' the Hanmer Convalescent Homo to recover from, his wounds. He was discharged recently from that institution and passed by the Medical lioard as fit for active service, but evidently the authorities desire to keep him in New Zealand for n further period.