PERSONAL

Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14264, 15 January 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Hon. A. M. Myers was a visitor to Rotorua yesterday. Miss Thurston, who was the niatron-in-chief of the N.Z.E.F. Nursing Service in. England, returned by the Kigoma- . Sister Reidy, of the Waikato Hospital nursing staff, was to-day granted three months' leave of absence by the Board, for the purpose of visiting Australia. ... Mr E. J. Wilson, M.A., B. So., of the University of Perth, Western Australia, has been appointed lecturer of modern languages to Victoria College. Mr Wilson is a New Zealander and was educated at Canterbury College. Sir Wm. Hemes, patron of the Rotorua Jockey Club, who was present at the annual fixture yesterday, is Visiung Morrinsville and Te Aroha today. It is the Minister's intention to join the Main Trunk express at Frankton to-night for WellingtonThe appointment is announced of Dr. D. S. Wylie, C.M.G., C.8.E., as inspector of hospitals under the Public Health Department. Dr. Wylie served for a long period during the war, and after f m making a special study of orthopaedic W treatment in England returned to New Zealand to direct that branch of the work, which was being inaugurated under the Defence Department for the benefit of returned men, in the Dominion. Mr J. P. Strang, barrister and solicitor, has commenced the practice of his profession in Hamilton, occupying temporary offices in the premises of Messrs House and Daking, Ltd. Mr was for six years in the office of Messrs Malone, Anderson and Johnstone, of New Plymouth, and commenced practice on his own account at Taumarunui in 1910. Taumarunui, then a native township, was in course of constitution • as a borough, which legal work Mr Strang carried out, and acted as borough solicitor until 1918, when he passed for active service, .„_. The North Island delegates who .';re attending the annual conference of iho Railway Officers' Institute, heing 1.31 d in Dunedin, are:—Messrs James Young (president), A. W. Hutchings, M. Dennehey, H. Thomas (vice president) ; F. G. Craig, J. R. Robertson, T Snow (Wellington), E. Casey (vice president), C. R. Bell, J. Carnachan (Auckland)', L.W.King (Frankton

./ function) ; G. Duncan (Napier); A, *C Wylle (Palmerston North) ; J. Strat•ford (Wanganui) ; A. Thomson (Hawera). The death Of Mr" M. 6. Quintal, a papular resident U Ngaruawahia, took place. On Saturday, at the age of 33. The deceased was a descendant of the famous Captain Quintal, who played such an important part in the settlement of the Pacific Islands over ja century ago. The family has now many branches; but that to which the deceased belonged maintained its direct line. On the mother's side, the deceased was related to the Washer family, of Horotiu, and the Clow family of t c Kowhai. jS -