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PERSONAL ITEMS.

* Mr R. B. Beals is leaving for the ~ United .States by the outgoing steamer. ' Ho will return about tho end of the ; year. i Mr J. R. Fraser, statistical clerk at 1 the head offico of the Labour Depart- , mer.t in Wellington during the t>ast t fourteen years, lias retired owing to . ill-health. Mr Justice Stringer, Captain Mc- * Donald, Captain Fairclough, Captain 1 Clement, Father Mangan, and Mr P. HalW-y were oassengers from "Wellinga ton by yestc-rday's ferry steamer. j r | Under date of May 23th, our London , | correspondent writes: Sir Thomas Parj I kinsr-n, 31.D. (formerly of Canterbury), has undergone an operation. His pr.»gru33 is reported now to be continuous'y satisfactory. 3 A resolution of sympathy with the r widow and family of the late Dr. J. T. t "Withers, of Southbridge, was passed ■) by yesterday's meeting of the Christ-' ■i church Presbytery. The Moderator r (the Rev. A. D. Kirkland) mentioned, j the valued work of Dr. Withers on bej half of the church. '' Our London correspondent | that the Hon. W. Peir.ber Peeves is j * a member of the Scholarship Commit-1 t too which is being set up under tno I " Lord Kitchencr National Memor-al i Fund, to afford sound advanced educa-1 tion to disabled officers and men about * to engage in commerce or industry. ' . The Rev. W. A. Sinclair, ex-prcsidont i j of the Now Zealand Methodist Confer- | t ence, is suffering from a reaction after j 5 the strain of an exceptionally hard i presidential year. He is in charge ot the Now Plymouth circuit, and Taranaki pastors are supplying tho New Plymouth pulpit during his indisposition. Mr John Ban-, an old Wellington . boy. and formerly of the litorarv .;tatf 3 of the ''Evening Post" and "New Zea- _ land Timos," is now temporarily occu--3 P.ving the editorial chair of the Sydney 1 "Bulletin." _ Mr Barr will retain the position during the absence of Mr S. ( H. Prior, who is a member of the Ausj tralasian Press delegation to Europe. 7 Tlie statement emanating fi;om Dun--1 cdin that Sergeant-Major A. W. Halr ley, Chief Records clerk at the Defence b oHioo in Dunedin, is under orders r.o - take charge of the records of the sick L and wounded in Christchurch, is stated 1 to bo not quite correct. Sergeant- ? Major Hallcv is simply joining - the b staff of the sick and wounded soldiers' f depot in Christchurch; he is not taking ; charge. 1 Our London correspondent advisas * that Mr Walter J. Penn, of New Ply- ' mouth, has been elected a Feilow of * tho Royal Colonial Institute, and is 1 appointed hon. corresponding secretary 3 for New Plymouth in placo of rhe 1 Hon. Oliver Samuel. Mr J. L. Perry 5 and Mr W. H. Perry, also of New Ply--1 mouth, iiavo been elected Fellows ot j the Institute. ' r Before the business of last night's * meeting of the Fire Board was taken, ) Mr H. Holland, tho chairman, feei- . ingly referred to the death of Fore- . man Davis, and said he felt sure that _ the Board would record its apprecia- . tion of Foreman Davis's service: ne was a good all-round, reliable man, \ whose place it would be difficult to fill. [ On tho chairman's motion, the members standing, it was resolved to ox- ' press the Board's sincere sympathy ( with the parents of Foreman Davis :n r their great loss. > The resignation of the Rev. A. T. > Thompson from the charge of St. An--5 drew's Church was referred to by tho s ltev. J. Paterson at yesterday's meeti ing of . tho Christchurch Presi bytery. Tho following resolution, i moved by Mr Paterson, was - carried unanimously: "That the Pres- . bytery places on rccord its appreciation i of the Rev. A. T. Thompson, M.A., ' r. aS minister St. Andrew's Church, on the occasion of his resignation of that charge to take up the work of general secretary for the' British and Foreign Bible Society in New Zealand, and while deeply regretting his resignation feels that it is Under Divine guidance that he is entering upon his new sphere of labour. ' fho resolution also referred in complimentary terms to Mr Thompson s work as a pastor and for the stating that it was through his initiative that St. Andrew's College was founded and largely through his energy, developed so successfully.

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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16260, 10 July 1918, Page 7

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PERSONAL ITEMS. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16260, 10 July 1918, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16260, 10 July 1918, Page 7

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