PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12224, 23 January 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Sir John Findlay, KC., who has spent hi.- annual holiday ah Mount (xiok, arrived in Christchurch last night. Ha will spend to-day in the city, and. experts to leave for Wellington this evening.

The Hon W. D. S. MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture, attended tha Nurserymen's Conference this morning. He expects to leave for Wellington this evening. Dr fi. E. Morrison will be given a civic reception hr the Mayor in the .Municipal Chambers at 12.30 p.m. tomorrow, and the visitor will be entertained at hmch by the New Zealand Club at 1 p.m. In was stated at to-day's meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board that the condition of Councillor F. Burgoyiie, who was recently injured as the result of a fall at the institution, was still critical, and that he was not quite so well as on the previous day. Mr John Logan Stout (says the Dunedin correspondent of the ‘‘Star"), o’,'(lest sou of the Chief Justice, has been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate for the South Otago district. Mr Stout has been practising his profession in Wellington. Mr L. B. Galbraith, son of Mr Robert Galbraith, Ashburton, and Mr Ivan R. Withcll, second son of Air O. W. Wit-bell, .Mayfield, have received advice from the Defence Department, Wellington, of their acceptance as candidates for the Australian Military Training College at Duntroon. The staff of the A.M.P. Society met yesterday afternoon and presented Mr X. A. Sinclair with a gladstone bag as a token of goodwill on the occasion of bis promotion to the head office, Wellington. lire district secretary, Mr G. G. Burns, the superintendent of the industrial branch, Air C. E. Twstin, and Air A. D. Hassall, of the field staff, referred to tho uniform courtesy of Air Sinclair and congratulated him on his promotion. The recipient suitably acknowledged the compliments paid him.

Driver Arthur Forster, injured severely in France and sent to the Tooting Military Hospital on January 10, is one of the seven soldier sons of Mr and -Mrs J. D. Forster, 367, Armagh Street, Linwood. He left with the Tenth Mounted Otago Regiment, and was on his arrival in France transferred to the Sixth Howitzer Battery, N.Z.F.A. His brothers are CarporalFarrier Ted Forster, Main Body A.T.F.; Driver Walter Forster. Sixth Howitzer Battery N.Z.F.A. ; Trooper Hurl Forster, injured at Gallipoli .(returned); Private Harry Forster, T.F., killed in action in France; Rifleman Wilfrid Forster, N.Z.8.8. ; and Trooper Victor Forster, First Australian Light Horse. A fact of which their parents are justly proud is that all the lads were volunteers.