PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17890, 5 July 1926, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr E. P. Ellison has been appointed Dept.ty Resident Commissioner of Rarotonga. Mr John Nixon has been appointed an additional trustee of the Ellesmere public cemetery. Mr A. S. M’Phcrson has been appointed deputy-registfar of marriages, births and deaths at Cust.

Mr H. S. Fairchild has been appointed secretary of the Wellington Fire Board.

Mr L. B. Beale, his Majesty’s Trade Commissioner, has returned to Wellington.

Mr F. J. Earle, the well-known Wellington journalist, will leave to-morrow for Nelson, where he will take up his residence permanently.

Mr H. Holland, M.P., arrived in Christchurch yesterday for the purpose of attending a meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board to-day. He will return to Wellington to-night.

Mr H. Levestam, manager in Christchurch for the Government Life Insurance Department, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington to be district manager there in succession to Mr A. Allison, who has been appointed commissioner.

In consequence of the appointment of Mr C. A. Berertdsen to the Prime Minister's Department, Mr A. E. Waite, officer in charge of the Labour Department’s Christchurch Branch, and formerly second clerk in the Head Office, is carrying out the duties of chief clerk, pending the appointment of Mr Berendsen’s successor.

The Rev G. L. Harold, vicar of Amberlev, was taken seriously ill while in Italy. In a letter written from an English hospital in Rome, he says that having left London on April 26 for a town in Italy, they reached Rome on April 29, and tw-o days later pains developed which necessitated his going into the hospital, where he was still, on May 7, expecting an operation when the abdominal inflammation had subsided.

An old .resident of New Zealand, Mr W. E. Moore, formerly a warrant officer of the Royal Artillery, died in Wellington oil Friday. Mr Moore, who was in his seventieth year, has been in the Dominion for over fifty years. His father. Captain F. G. Moore, arrived from England with a young family in the ’forties, and was connected with manj' stirring Events of the early day*. The late Mr W. E Moore was an officer of the Royal New Zealand Artillery for thirty years, and when the Great War Came it fell to his lot as a warrant officer to supervise the mounting of modern guns on troopships and transports. He retired from the Defence Service a few years ago an superannuation. He leaves a widow, Mrs E. J. Moore, prominently associated with women’s movements and soldier welfare, activities in Wellington: a daughter, Miss Carrie Moore and a son, Mr F. W. Howard Moore who served in the Royal Naval Re serve during the was as a sub-lieutei. ant, and who is no\fr in business in the South Island. The deceased is also survived by a sister (Mrs C, Morris, of Kilbirnie) anefc a brother (Mr Fred Moore, of Auckland).