PERSONAL NOTES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14984, 3 June 1914, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES.

Dr. R. McNab will iti-rvo for Sydney on Friday on private busincsa, and will return about July Ist. Lady Ward was a riassenger by the canine, which arrived -ve_terdav morning. Captain A. W. M_»carthur Onslow, Instructor in Mourrfed Duties in the Canterbury Military JOistrict, will leave christchureh shortly on his return to England, via Austrafia. Dr. Allan Trionisr>n, Director of the Dominion Museum, has been granted extended leave in icrdcr to carry out some special work connected with the Museum. air John Carr, who joined tie lithographing staff of tho Government Printing Offico at Wellington twentythree .years ago, and Tiecame sub-fore-man, retired an. superannuation on Saturday. Mr K. Mcl-eary, who has for some tirao been traffic* manager for Richardson and Co., tho Napier shipowners, has been appointed by tho directors to tho position of manager in succession to the late Mr P. H. Kelly. Mr McLeay has bean connected with tho firm for sevon years. Mr J. Jon_s, who for tho past fourteen years has been wharfinger at Picton, retired last Saturday on superannuation, after having spent tho best part of his life in the servico of tho Railway Department. It is the intention of Mj- Jones to settle with his family in Christchureh. Colonel V. S. Smyth, officer commanding tho Canterbury Military District, acoompanicd by Mrs Smyth and family, will leave by the Maori to-night for Wellington, to join tho Ruahino, sailing to-morrow for England. Colonel R. A. Chaffey, V.D., will act as officer commanding tho district for tho next ta-alve months. Mr Frederick Seed, who has just retired from the position of inspector for the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, was yesterday presented by the committee with a travelling rug and an illuminated arldrcss. Appreciative references wero made to his fifteen years' faithful servioß for the (society. Mr Seed, in .acknowledging tho "gifts, mentioned that since he had been inspector in Wellington, over 500 decrepit and worn-out horses had been destroyed.