PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12735, 3 September 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Yesterday, apart from their appearance at the Citizens’ Ball, Lord and Lady Jellicoe spent a quiet day. The Mayor and Mayoress were the guests of Mr and Mrs Wigram at luncheon yesterday with the Admiral and Lady Jellicoe. To-day Lord Jellicoe will attend a luncheon tendered him by fellows of the Canterbury branch of the Royal Colonial Institute. In the evening he will be present at the Navy League’s At Home. At the monthly meeting of the Executive Committee of the Dominion Boy Scouts’ Association, held on Monday night, Brigadier-General A. W. Andrew was elected to a seat in place of the late Sir John Denniston, and Mr D. C- W. Cossgrove, late Captain Director of Recruiting, was appointed Deputy Commissioner for Canterbury Central, on the recommendation of Colonel Pi B. Cresswell, the Commissioner. Mr D. M’Caskill, 8.A., headmaster of Waimataitai School,' r £imani, has received advice that the Canterbury Education Board will require him to act as an inspector of schools for the remainder of the year. Mr M’Caskill will be present at the re-opening of the Waimataitai School after the * term holidays, on Monday, September 10, and will leave next day for Christ elm mb to take up his new duties. Mr A. E. Worry, first assistant, will be acting-headmaster at Waimataitai during Mr M’Caskill’s absence. . At a meeting of the Executive SubCommittee pf the Now Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association (says a Press Association message from “Wellington) it was resolved;—“ That this Association congratulate Major J. B. Bine on his elevation to Cabinet rank and the Right Hon. the Prime Minister on his action in appointing a returned soldier as one of his colleagues in the Government. In doing so the association, a strictly non-party organisation, wishes to make it clear that its action wou;d have been the same if Sir Joseph Ward, or anv other political leader, had been his Excellency’s chief adviser and had appointed a returned soldier to Ministerial rank.”