PERSONAL ITEMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 1682, 31 May 1919, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr and Mrs Edgar-Jones, and Miss 51. Edgar-Jones leave for Los Aligeibs early next week

Corporal Harold Turner arrived at his home in Geraldine at 9.15 p.m. oil Thursday. _He left with- the Nineteenth Reinforcement.

Mr AV. G. Aldridge. senior assistant at Christchurch Technical College ha% been appointed Director of the South!and_ Technical College out of twenty applicants.—(Press Association.)

Mr Rowland E. M. Prothero, who lias now taken tho titta of Lorrl Frnle, has, says a Press Association cable, resigned the Presidency of tho Board of Agriculture.

A Press Association cable states that the warship New Zealand, with Lord Jellicoe aboard, arrived at Melbourne yesterday. The city was en fete, and Lord Jellicoo was accorded a magnificent reception.

A Press Associaton telegram from Invercargill states: —"It "is learned from an authoritative source that Sir Joseph AVard a.nd Mr Massey leave London, on .Tune 14, aiid leave Vati-ccrav-cr oil July 3."

Mrs L. Mclntyre, '6 Roslyn Terrace, lias received word, that her son, Sergt.Major A-bert Molultyr-o, has been admitted to the Nenv Z'aland General Hospital, Codiord, suffering froln. pyelitis, serious.

The many friends of the Rev. T. Wilson Po!tts will regret to hear that he i s indisposed, and wi| be unable to cotndnct the sei-vices at; the Congregational Cliurdh oil Sunday. Mr C. G. Vogeler and Mr J. E. Chiles have kindly consented to conkluct the servr'tees, morning and evening, respectively.

Among the names of officers arid other ranks mentioned bv Genera] Sir E. H. 11. Allenby, C.1.C., Egyptian Expeditionary Force, as worthy of mention for their services during the period 16tli March, 1918, to 18th September, 1918, is the name of Trooper (temporary Sergeant) now Sergeant-Maor F. j. Bilton, Canterbury Mounted Rifles, son of Mr C. J. Bilton, Bank of New Zealand, Temuka.

A representative gathering of railway servants in Wellington, with district officers of the Department from all over the dominion, met at the railway bead offices Inst night to farewell Mr Hiley, lately General Manager. Mr MeVillev. the new General Manager," presided. The Hon. Mr Herriee presented to Mr Hiley three albums <sf New Zealand views and mentioned h

writing cabinet, of New Zen land the whol e being a farewell gift fi-Oiil fhe railway service.—(Press Association.)