PERSONAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18074, 12 January 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. W. H. Clapham, of Wanganui, is seriously indisposed in Auckland, where he was spending a hollda.i. His many friends will anxiously await better news.

The friends of Mr. D. G. Polson will regret to hear that he is lying somewhat seriously ill. Mr. Lathlain, Mayor of Perth, has been made a Knight Bachelor on the occasion of Perth’s jubilee. It is announced (says a Melbourne cable) that the Muller Memorial Committee last year awarded a medal to Professor Chilton, Christchurch, for his services in connection with zoology. Mr E. G. Jellicoe, the well-known barrister, who returned to New Zealand a few weeks ago .after a lengthy visit to England, arrived in Wanganui last evening, accompanied by Mrs Jellicoe. They rre staying at the Hotel Braeburn. Mrs Freeman, of Timaru, who is 91 years of age, had a flight from the Washdkye aerodrome recently. The old lady relates with great glee the series of different vehicles she has travelled in since infancy, and is pleased to have made use of the most up-to-date vehicle in the world.

An interesting visitor to Wanganui is Mr W. W. Gudgeon, who is renewing acquaintance with the scenes of his boyhood. Mr Gudgeon, who has reside in Australia for many years, spent his school days in Wanganui, and he is naturally greatly struck by the advancement the district has made since those days. Mr Gudgeon is staying at Hotel Braeburn. Miss Hester McLean, Matron-in-Chief of the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Department, is at present paying an official visit to Wanganui. She is staying at Hotel Braeburn. Colonel R. Logan, C.B. (late Administrator of Samoa), has purchased an estate in the South of England, where he intends to settle permanently. Dr. G. H. Scholefield, 0.8. E., w ho recently purchased the Wairarapa Age. has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Mr R. B. Morris, Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, and Mrs Morris are passengers froih London to Sydney by the Nflldera, due at the latter port on or about January 20. Ou his return Mr A. Markman, Acting Secretary, will leave on a holiday trip to Austialia. Mr E. A. Shrimpton, chief telegraph engineer, is returning from England and America by the next trip of the Marama (from Vancouver).

General Sir W. R. Birdwood has already taken up the Northern Command in India. In view of his services in the war (says a London exchange) perhaps this may be a favourable moment for suggesting that the difficulty of de. vising a satisfactory reserve of officers for the Indian Army might be met. in part at least, by asking for volunteers from Australia and New Zealand to servo for a short time with Indian troops