PERSONAL ITEMS

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16225, 4 July 1918, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir William Fraser will leave Dunedin for Wellington on Saturday morning. Mr L. P. do Berry, M.A., rector of the Hokitika High School, has boon appointed headmaster of tho High School at Marton. Mr W. Downio Stewart, M.P. for Dunedin West, is in town, and intends leaving for Auckland by to-night's forry steamer. It is understood (says the "Grey Star") that the Government have offered Mr Tom Pollard, and he has accepted, the position of controller of the" Amusement Tax of the Dominion. Mr N. H. S. Law, headmaster of the Tauranga District High School, has been appointed temporary inspector of schools in thc Wellington educational district. Mr Law, who goes to Wellington almost immediately, has been headmaster of the Tauranga school for the last five years. Mr Arthur H. Adams, formerly of tho literary staff of the Wellington "Evening Post" (son of Mr C. W. Adams, Lower H-ntt, and brother of Dr. Adams, New Zealand Government Astronomer), who for some years past ha.i edited the Red Page in the Sydney "Bulletin," has joined tho literary staff of the "Sydney Daily Telegraph." Mr R. G. Robinson, of Tapanui, at present superintendent of forestry operations for the South Island, has been appointed Superintendent of Reserves for the Selwyn Plantation Board. H*» has had 19 years' service in the Forestry Department, and is an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society. Captain A. O. Evans, who has been officer in charge of the Wounded Soldiers' Annexe at tho Auckland Hospital since January, has received notice of his transfer on active service duty. He has a month's leave, and is then to report at Awapuni Camp. Dr. Evans has been on active service, having been attached to tho R.A.M.G., and later to the N.Z.M.C. He is succeeded at to o Annexe by Lieutenant Appleby, of Dunedin. Mrs H.White,Norman's road, Papanui, has received word that her son, Private H. J. Whito, has been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry on the field of action. Private Whito was born at Lincoln and educated at the Lincoln and Fendalton schools. He was engaged in business in tho north of Auckland before the war, left with the 7th Reinforcements, and has served in France ever since without a scratch- or a day's illness. Mr? Greenwood, of 54 Edward, avenue, St. A-lbans, has received advice that her husband, Lieut. J. G. (Jack) Greenwood, has been awarded the Military Cross for gallantly. Lieut. Greenwood enlisted with the 7th Reinforcemonts, but was transferred to the 4th New Zealand Rifle Brigade before leaving New Zealand. For some time he was engaged on railway construction in France, and was attached to the French Army, but has since rejoined his own regiment. He served in the South African war for two years and holds the Queen's and King's Medals for that campaipgn.

The Tramway Board yesterday passed a motion of sympathy with the relatives of two of its employees who had died since the last meeting. They were Conductor Owers, who died as the result of an accident at New Brighton, and Motorman W. Lewis, who died on Monday last-, after returning to Christchurch from a holiday. The chairman (Hon.. J. Barr) said Owers was a promising man. He left a widow and child. Lewis, who had joined the Board's service in 1905, almost since its inception, was one of the most conscientious employees it had. He left a widow and four young children.