PERSONALS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18149, 7 May 1927, Page 4

PERSONALS.

Sir Francis Bell left Wellington yesterday by the Uliraaroa for Sydney. Major J. G. Jeffrey, M.C., Regiment of New Zealand Artilleryhas been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration. The Rev G. T. Robson has been appointed to H.M.S. Diomede, as Chaplain New Zealand Naval Forces, for squadron duties. Mr A. Whitaker, Clerk of the Court at Feilding, lias been appointed second Clerk of the Wellington Magistrate’s Court. Having returned from abroad, 'Mr F. W. Furkert (Engineer in Chief of the Public Works Department) has been re-appointed chairman of the Main Highways Board. During his absence Mr C. J. M’Kenzie acted as chairman. Professor T. A. Hunter left Wellington for Sydney bv the Ulimaroa vesterdav to attend the annual meeting of the Australasian Association of Psychology and Philosophy, of which he is president. He will return to Wellington in about three weeks’ time. Mr J. C. Harding, of the staff of the Magistrate's Court at Wellington, has been promoted to the position of second Clerk of the Nelson Magistrate’s Court. He leaves next week to take up his duties. Mr G, M. Premier,cast:, M.D.A., formerly Premier and Opposition leader of Victoria, is seventy-throe years of age to-day. He was returned unopposed for Footscray on May 111. He previously represented North Melbourne for thirty years. The Hon E. W. Alison, M.L.C., will return frdrn Svdnev by the Aorangi, on Monday. Mrs A 1 iron, who accompanied her husband to Australia, had her arm broken in a motor-car accident, and will be unable to return for about a month. Flight-Lieutenant' V. J. Somerset Thomas, R.A.F., has been posted to Abuer Sueir, Suez, Egypt. Lieutenant Mcrvyn Somerset-Thomas, R.N., late H.M.S. Dunedin, has been appointed to H.M.S. Thracian, China station. Botli are sons of Professor W. E. Thomas, of Auckland. After serving thirty-five years in the Customs Department, Mr E. W. Carter, Sub-Collector of Customs at Auckland, is retiring owing to ill-health, Mr Carter entered the head office at Wellington in lP nr> and at the end of the following year was transferred to the Custom House, where he was employed as warehousekeeper and shipping clerk. In 1896 he went to Invercargill as clerk and cashier, and in 1901 became land- ! iny-waiter in Dunedin, in 1913 he bei came inspector, and in 1925 sub-col--1 lector.

Mr J. Mill, the All Black half-back, is staying at the United Service Hotel. Mr A. C. Baird (Wellington) is staying at Warner’s Hotel. Messrs L. F. Boyes and O. Gore (Wellington) arc at the United Service Hotel. Among the guests at the Clarendon Hotel are Messrs A. Garven (Wanganui) and A. Hale (Wellington). Mr 8. S. Dean has been re-elected chairman of the Management Committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Mr IT. K. Holland. M.P., leader of the Labour Party in New Zealand, will give a public address in the Choral Ilall on May 20. The death is announced of Mr Robert Fra ter, aged 85, who was the oldest surviving member of the Auckland Stock Exchange. Mr J. W. Niven, of the commercial staff of the Christchurch City Council, who recently underwent an operation, expects to be able to start work in the course of a week or so. Mr G. E. Godber has resigned the .Grand Secretaryship of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, and will be succeeded by Mr A. G. Shrimpton, of Nelson, who will be statiuned in Wellington. Mr H. M. Tremcwan, supervisor of accountants’ branch of the Post and Telegranli Department at Wellington, has been returned unopposed as the representative of the Post and Telegraph Department contributors on the Public Service Superannuation Board. Among the passengers leaving by the Aorangi on May 30 are Mr W. D. Lanibie, assistant to his Majesty’s Trade Commissioner, Mrs Lambic, and their son. After spending a few weeks in Canada and the United States they are proceeding to the United Kingdom on leave, and expect to return to Wellington early in December. Dr W. IT. Pettit, of Auckland, is At present in the city, where he is giving a scries of lectures. Dr Pettit is wellknown throughout the Dominion as a result of the work he did in the camps during the late war. when he addressed over 90,000 soldiers on social hygiene Some time ago it was announced that, a party of West roast, farmers would pay a visit to Lincoln College Mr Paw son, of the Railway Department, has gone to Greymouth to make arrangements for the excursion train by which the farmers will travel. Mr R. E. Boag, who was injured in a collision between a motor-car and a train on the Culverden line on Wednesday, is likely to be an inmate of the Waikari Hospital for some time yet.

He is on the seriously ill list but is petting on as well as can be expected. The injuries to his head have proved comparatively slight and it is his chest that is giving the most trouble. Continuing a brilliant medical record in Melbourne, Dr J. C. Eccles, the ic* torian Rhodes Scholar of 192.5, won the Oxford University Christopher Wcmch Scholarship, for biological research of the value of £IOO per annum for four years, says a London cable. Messrs F. R. Cooke, J. W. Roberts. E. 11. Andrews and Mrs A. K. Herbert were congratulated at the meeting of the Hoard of Governors of the Technical College last evening, the chairman, Mr M "Gregor Wright, expressing the gratification of the board at the success of so many of its members in being elected to the City Council. It was a matter for negret that Mr W. 11. Winsor had not been elected as Mr Winsor had proved himself a very capable Mr A G. Henderson, editor-manager of the "Lyttelton Times,’" left, for Auckland last evening to join the Aorangi for San Francisco. After a visit, to the United States Mr Henderson will proceed to England and the Continent. Prior to his departure from Christchurch he was presented with a travelling trunk from the heads of departments in the “L.yttelton Times” and "Star’ office. Mr Henderson is accompanied by Mrs Henderson and his two sons and little daughter, who intend to spend some time with relatives in the States.