PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16266, 17 July 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr E. P. Turner, Tramway Bbardi engineer, has (jone to the North ißland on a business visit. Mr A. Macphoreon,, Fields Supervisor, / of Agriculture, ioft last riignt for Wellington. Major Friedlander, Captain Rogers, 1 Captain Post, Mr T. K. Sidey, M.P., . and Mr H. E. Holland, M.P., were passengers, from Wellington by yesterdays ferry steamor. , Mr Maurice Ralph, who is directing i: the Now Zealand tour of the "Peg. o My Hoart" Company, passed through Christchureh yesterday on his way to ■ Dunedin, where the tour opens. ( Mr A. J. Heighway, who was injured in a shooting accident at Pukekohe last week, received a oharge of shot in his loft foot. The big toe Has been amputated, and it is hoped to save the foot, ■which is badly injured^ Advice has been received in Christchurch that Lieutenant-Colonel John ■ Findlay, C.8., D.5.0., who left with; tlie Main Body, has had conferred on [ him the Egyptian decoration of the.?,-'. "Order of the Nile." Mr It. E. Alexander (Director Can- y terbury Agricultural Lincoln), 1 Mr R. W. Lochhead, Mr T. D. Boag, Mr J. Deans, and Mr O. B. Pembertoa . (secretary Canterbury A. and P._ Association) left last night for Wellington to attend tho conference of- A. and P. associations in that city "which opens t6> , day. <

Mr John Mac Gibbon, one of &0 Christchurch Drainage Board's Sinking Fund Commissioners, having been pro- • moted to the Ashburton branch of the Bank of New Zealand, the Board at its meeting last night appointed Mr Edward McPhail to act witn Mr G. A. U., Tapper as the Board's Sinking Fond , Commissioners. It was decided to > thank Mr MacGibbon-for his pact services. i* i-

The New South Wales Country Preffl; Association intend erecting a saitabku monument over the grave or the late Mr Thomas Temperloy, who was for many!" years prominent in journalistic circlet-, The late Mr Temperley represented tbe Country Press of New South Wales at the Imperial Press Conference in Eng-.. land in (Coronation He was a.director of .the Independent Cable Service, and a past-president of the New: South Wales Country > Press > Association, Mrs Temperley onlj; lived six days after her husband -was laid to rest.

Lieutenant W. Cecil Leys, of thd Royal Niaval Branch operating <ra the rivers in Mesopotamia, has arrived in Auckland on brief furlough. Lieutenant Leys (who is a son of Mr T. W.. Leys, editor of the Auckland "Star") left Auckland | over three years ago to attend a Press Conference in San Francisco, and immediately upon the conclusion of tho Press Congress, ho enlisted in the British ArmyScrvice Corps, serving for some time with the motor transport division on the Salonica front, and later in France. When the' Naval Motor Patrol Service was instituted, he transferred, and, passing his examinations, obtninod a commission, and was detail?! to MeHOTJOtamia, where he has been 1 serving for over a year.

Mr R. G. Thomas, who for tho past fourteen years has held the position of j Sheriff of* tho district of Auckland and ! Registrar of the Supremo Court atf Auckland, has decidcd to retire oft v; superannuation on account of serious ill- , : ness brought about to a large extent by overwork. Mr Thomas wns born in the Yv'airarnpa, and was educated partly at •. Napier and partly at Auckland. He entwrvl the Civil Sorvice in 1878, and IB 1879 was appointed clerk at the Polic* Court at Auckland. In 1882 he was aj>* pointed clerk at th» Supreme Court fl» .Auckland, and in 1887 waspromoted to the position of deputy-registrar to the Sunreme Court at Cnristchurch, fro® \vhi"h pi,ico Tie was transferred to Wellington in 1889. After five years' service there he was appointed clerk to the Police Court at Auckland, and in 1890 received the appointment of I>eputy* Rec'strar of the Supreme Coarfc n# l. Two years Infer he *0piinted Reg'rtrar for th» fjnnreni' 4 Court at Chri'tchu'ch and Sheriff for the diistrict of Canterbury, in the absence, or Mr A. R. Bloxam. on le"ve. Following that be w?>s appointed Registrar f-o tn© Sunreme Cmrt at .Auckland in '904,* - position which he had held , since. He was the Senior RTstrar oB the Supremo Court in New Zealand.