PERSONAL.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15358, 5 October 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr George Price, of Thames, who has been on a visit to Hamilton, relumed to Thames this afternoon. Mr W. H. Davys, clerk in the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton, has been appointed clerk of the Court at Taumarunui.

Hon D. H. Guthrie, who has been on a health trip to Fiji, is expected to return to Auckland by the Tofua, -which is due on Tuesday. Constable W. 11. Simister, of Temuka, has been appointed chief officer of police at Rarotonga, Cook Islands, with the rank of inspector. He will leave late in November with his wife and family for liarotonga. Mr Kenneth Graham, son of the late Mr W. A. Graham, has just been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor at Invercargill. Mr Graham has for several years held the position of chief draughtsman at Wellington and has been promoted from there to his present position. The Hon. R. F. Bollard, Minister for Internal Affairs, who lias been paying his first official visit to Auckland this week, left Auckland this morning for Taupiri, and will spend a day or two in his constituency. Yesterday afternoon he. visited his mother, the widow of the late Mr John Bollard, M.P., whose eighty-fourth birthday was being celebrated by her family. A public presentation was made to Mr J. Price, formerly chairman of the Matamata Town Board, and president of the Racing (Jlub, and now a member of the Thames Valley Power Board and the Waikato Hospital Board, on behalf of the residents of town and country. Mr C. E. Macmillan presented and illuminated address to Mr and Mrs Price, and a cheque for a substantial sum to Mr Price. There was a large attendance of the public. The Hon. Aubrey Nigel Herbert, M.P., whose death was recently reported by cable from London, was well known to many officers and men on Gallipoli, and he figures in the official N.Z. History of the War. He was M.P. for East Somerset, and held the rank of colonel. He served also in Mesopotamia, and is author of a book of memoirs entitled "Mons, Anzac and Kul," which is full of racy reminiscences. After leaving Oxford University he was attached to the British Embassy in Tokid during- the RussoJapanese war, and was then transferred to Constantinople. While attache there he acquired that wonderful knowledge of the Turks- and their language that made him invaluable upon Gallipoli as Captain Herbert, interpreter to the N.Z. Division. At limes, if report be true, when during truce he went out into no man's land to talk to the enemy, the New Zealand authorities had fears that his Turkish friends would not let him return. They looked on him as a sort of elder brother, and Captain Herbert used ail his influence to get them to sec the ' folly of continuing the war. „____