PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17394, 3 October 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

A Sydney cable announces the death of ex-.J unties Simpson, who was Chief Equity Court' Judge for twenty years.

According; to a London cable, the Pre-.s Btriv-m .states: Captain George Lloyd, a, member of the House- of Commons, lias been appointed Governor of Bombay in succession to Lord Willing<lon, who becomes CJovernor of Madras in succession to Lord Pentland.

Mr H, G. L. Noy, Inspector of Machinery from Auckland, who has been appointed senior officer in charge of the "Wangariui district, has arrived here to take up his duties. Prior to leaving Auckland Mr Noy was tendered a farewell reception by the engineering and shipping firms, also by "his colleagues of the Marine Department.

On Tuesday evening, at the Wansranui East Methodist Church, Miss Dorothy Davies. organist to the Church, was entertained at a complimentary social, and made the recipient, from the choir and congregation, of a. souvenir marking their appreciation of her recent successes in connection with Trinity College of

At a luncheon tendered in New York to Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward (a cablo message published in Australia reports;. Major Massey (son of tho Primo Minister) was present. He and 70 m?n of a New Zealand battalion are the only survivors out o c 790 »vho fought throughout the March battles on the Western front. Major Massey was shot through thp lungs and liver. He is on Lis way to New Zealand, but expects to return to the front.