PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16268, 19 July 1918, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Geo. Burrows, postmaster at Clyde, has receivrd notice of his transfer to Invcrcargill. Captain McDougnll, Major Crowther, arrd Mr E. Luttrell were passengers from Wellington by yesterday's ferry steamer. His Honour Mr Justice Stringer, and Messrs W T . Scott and J. A. McCullough, members of the Court of Arbitration, intend leaving to-morrow for Duncdin. Mr S. Hurst Seager has left for' Brisbane to attend the second Austra-! lian Town Planning and Housing Con-1 ference and Exhibition. Last night a slight improvement was reported in the condition of Mr Itoriald Opie. who met with a serious motor-cycle accident .recently. 'Messrs W. G. McDonald. I'. Hally, and J. 11. Hart, members of the Board of Tiade. and Mr J. W*. Collins (sec etary), left for V/ellington by last night's ferry steamer. Mr A. K. McGregor, Chief Postmaster at Hokitika, has Ween transferred to Dunedin, as assistant postmaster. His place will be filled by Mr A. Stewart, of tho Wellington chief post office. Mr W. Yates, who for 11 years < has been elerk and accountant in tho Giey mouth branch of tiie Union Steam Ship Company, has been transferred to Christchurch. The directors of the Co-operative Fruitgrowers of Otago have appointed Mr W. G. Gould manager of the company. Mr Gould was lately manager of tiie Hawke's Bay Co-operative Fruitgrowers' Association. Private R.egus Julian Marriner, of the Australian Field Ambulance in France, who has been awarded the Military Medal, is a nephew of Mr and Mrs H. J. Marriner, ,of this city. Private -Marriner, who is 23 years of age ard a native of Sydney, prior to enlisting passed his examinations as an analytical chemist. Captain A. H. Burn, Group Commander at Nelson, has received notice to report at Trentham prior to returning on active servire. Captain Burn left New Zealand in October, 1915, as adjutant of the 2nd Battalion of the New Zealand Rjflo Brigade, and after several months' service in Egypt was invalided to New Zealand. Major G. It. Blackett, M.C., will succeed Captain Burn as Group Commander at Nelson. In hiß remarks at thp conclusion of Wednesday's Second Division ballot, the Mayor of Wellington (Mr J. P. Luke) took advantage of the opportunity to congratulate Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., who has acted as supervising Magistrate at all ballots up to the present, upon his promotion to be senior Magistrate at Christchurch. Ho expressed regret, however, that this would entail Mr McCarthy's departure from Wellington, where he was sure tho whole of the citizens appreciated very highly his zealous and conscientious work.

Mr H. B. Hill, Wellington Chief Forester, who has enlisted voluntarily, will go into camp on August 14th. Before coming to N'ow Zealand, over seven years ago, Mr Hill had had considerable experience in afforestation matters in England. Soon after reaching the Dominion he entered tho Government service, and was connected with the State Forestry staff at Rotorua, when he was selected to become Wellington City Forester about five and a hair years ago. Mr Hill, who has been a member of the Royal Arborical Society of England for some years, is a son of a gentleman who has had forty years' experience of forests in England, and is still holding a responsible position in that country. Mr C. C. Kettle, who has resigned the position of senior Stipendiary Magistrate in Auckland on account of ill-health, has adjudicated in the Position in that city for the past fourteen vears. Ho was appointed to the Bench in 1890, and sat in New Plymouth as district judge and Stipendiary Magistrate for Taranaki and Wanganui districts, to which circuit the district of Wairarapa was later added. Two years later < he took up headquarters at Wanganui, where, in addition to Magisterial duties, he held the position of Registrar to tiie Supreme Court. Ho, in 1890, was appointed senior Magistrate at Auckland, and he also acted as District Court Judge for the Waikato and Thames districts until the abolition of the district courts there, when Hamilton was added to- the Supreme Court circuit. About twelve months ago, failing health rendered it necessary for him to undergo an operation* and since that time he has been in hospital. His retirement will take effect as from July 31st.

American papers report the arrival in that country of nine British Army officers on a military mission. The "New York Times" says that the officers will be attached to the staff of the British Embassy and Special High Commission.. All of the officers have been at the front* some of them haying been in continuous service from the beginning of the war. Tbe officers are Sir W. Lethbridgo, Bart., Grenadier Guards; Captain James Hutchinson, London Irish Rifles and Ro.val Air Force; Captain T. E. Y. Seddon, M.P., a son of the late Rt. Hon. Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Major Eric Lankestcr, Honourable Artillery Company; CapWin Dudley D. Haskard, Royal Field Artillery; Major Ferguson. RovalField Artillerv; Captain Frank Edwards, Royal Fusiliers; Major Sandford, Royal Field Artillery; Captain Abercrombv, Royal Air Force. The mission, adds tho "Times," will be concerned, not merely with military matters, but with shipbuilding, financial, and social activities.

The Rev. Father Patrick Dore, M.C., who died at the Mater Misericordira Hospital, Auckland, on Monday, was one of the most popular chaplains in the New Zealand Forces. "Father Dore was a white man" said a Gallipoli man to an Auckland reporter. "His unfailing cheerfulness and his rich Irish humour wero a constant source of 111spiration to us. ,He was in every, way a 'big' man, and one tof his best tnends and admirers was the late Major Grant, Presbyterian chaplain to the brigade. This regiment will remember him for the things he need not havo done. If a party had to spend a day or night m a particularly unpleasant sap he was almost suro to visit the post and givo a word of choer. The wounds which ultimately caused his death were rcccived when he was attending to the wounded of a unit which was not his own His popularitv may be gauged from the fact that Protestant soldiers have been known to tell their mates that if they should be killed they would like to have the burial service conducted by him.