PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16414, 7 January 1919, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr W. Goss left yesterday for Hanmer Springs 011 a short holiday. Mr Porcival Witherby, the general pocretarv of the Empire Service League, is paying a short visit to Christehumi. Mr J. A. Frostiek, Canterbury' Commissioner on tho National Efficiency Board, intends leaving for Wellington on Thursday to attend a meeting or the Board.

Mr Charles Philpott, of St. Albans, who has purchased a farm at Hawarden, was entertained by his fiiends last week, and presented with ail easy chair, Mrs I'hilpott being tho recipient of a similar gift.

Mr A. McCarthy, late Deputy-Regis-trar of tho Supreme Court at Christchurch, who has been transferred to Auckland in a similar capacity, left for tlio North last evening to take up Ins new duties. Mr McCarthy, it is interesting to note, went through his cadetship in the Auckland office, which he entered in) 1901. Captain (t. E. V. Seddon, M.P.,_ will arrive at Auckland in about a fortnight, after an absenco from New Zealand of nearly three years. His sifter, Mrs Seddon Wood, wife of Surgeon-Com-mandcr Wood, R.N., and the youngest daughter of Mrs Seddon, will arrive shortly from London, beintr expected by the R.M.S. Ruahine, now en route to Ndvr Zealand via Panama.

Mr G. G. Hancox, M.A., lias been appointed senior resident master of the John McGlashan College, Maori Hill, Dunedin. Mr Hancox was a lieutenant in the Now Zoaland Expeditionary Forces in France, and was wounded at the Somme in October, 1916. He returned to Now Zoaland in March, 1917 and since his recovery has had charge or a public school in the Marlborough district.

It is understood that-tho late Major W. C. Morrison's successor as General Staff Officer to tho Canterbury Military District will be Major W. C. Finnis, who temporarily held that position from the outbreak of war until he left for

active service with the 23rd Reinforce- , ments early in 1917. Major Finnis, who is at present in Europe, has seen considerable service at tho front in tho trenches, and also in administrative positions with Brigade, Divisional, and Army Corps Headquarters.

South African papers report that Captain Mcintosh Muir, of tho South. African Medical Corps, has arrived in Kimborlcy, for duty at the Kimborley Hospital, in response to the Magistrate's roquest for assistance in the recent opidemic. Captain Muir is a son of Mr J. M. Muir, The Terrace, and grandson of Mr W. M. Muir, of Majoribanks street, Wellington. At the outbreak of war Captain Muir joined the Imperial Medical Service, and has till recently been working in the Persian Gulf and East Africa.

Mr Eliot Warburton, of Palmerston North, has received private cable advice that his son, So;ond-Lieutenant E. D. Warburton, R.F.C., has arrived in England from Germany, where he has been a prisoner since April sth, 1917. Lieutenant Warburton joined the Auckland Mounted Rifles as a trooper in August, 1914, and loft Now Zealand with the Main Body, N.Z.E.F.. and served about fifteen weeks on* Gallipoli. He was afterwards invalided to Englnnd, whore he joinod the Royal Flying Corps. His only brother, Sapper Pius A. E. Warburton, New Zealand Engineers (Britisn Section), took part in the landing at Galliooli, and was killed there on April 30th, 1915.