PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16250, 1 June 1917, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr.G. Dash. Mayor df Waimate, has been notified that he has been appointed a Justice of the Peace. .

i Mr George Bemnowith, who left for camp on Monday, with the Reinforcements, was presented with a Wristlet watch and pipe from Mr H. Kingham and Mr Slowcum, who wished hiln good lock and a safe return. i A Press Association telegram from' Blenheim reports the death of Mr John Reid, aged 61 years, manager there for the N.Z.Jj. and M.A. Company. He was an ex-presidenc of the Chamber, of Commerce and for a a great" number of years was prominent in the public and commercial life of Marlborough. In a list of those whom the TJiniVersrty of N.Z. Recess Committee have recommended for, degrees, appear the names of Miss Dorothy Glare Hardcastle, Timaru, M.A;, and Honours in ■Arts, Mr John A. D. lverach,Temuka, 8.A., and Miss J. M. Brwnan, who has been teaching in South 1 Canterbury 3 has been awarded the Tinline ScholarCaptain W. T. Pitt, the first elected' president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, is a native resident of Gisborne. He wenio away with the First Maori Contingent, saw service in Galiipoli,; and was invalided home about twelve months ago. As chairman of: the conference (says the "Otago Daily Times"), Capftdin. Pitt is capable of ruling with a firm hand.: In conversation he. speaks in a voice that is soft and musical* and well suited to express the beauties of the language of hid ri.ee. I ship.