PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16424, 18 January 1919, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Information has been r Trooper J. C. Collie, onlv Mrs W. M. Collie,. of Hereford £tr«t, is amongst tho soldiers in about a fortnight. . The Rev. Robert haTreministor at aiuku, A u 'ministry tired from active work m j aS on account of .ill-health. Mr Barr been in the ministry for 2o y * ' u <r The retirement of Mr W. widden, Inspector of Stores of an _ and Telegraph Department, op nuation after 40 years' service is an nounced.

Mrs A. Fehsenfeld. 46 Tainui street, Spreydon, has received cable a \ j^ rt her husband, Lance-Corporal. AH*** Fehsenfeld, intimating that he is s-i ■ 1 « for the Dominion on the -Otli i, « Lance-Corporal Fehsenfeld was in April last. _ Mr S I Whitcombe, Railway Tiam Superintendent, who has been connected with the Now Zealand llaihvay ment for the past 42 years announci l at the annual reunion of the Rail* £ Officers' Institute at Duncdm on ihurs day evening that he would re superannuation on March 31st n Mr W. T. Goodwin, who has aetod as GoVernment orchard instructor in Otago for some years past, has been tranferred to the Nelson district Mr '>■ Thorpe, who acted in place of Mr Gooawin during the latter's absence m camp, will be permanently stationed m <Jtago. The Ven. Archdeacon Fancourt of Wellington, has been lying very HI a; his residence in Coromandel s l^ ct the past five weeks. The Arehdca ) who is almost 79 years of age, has bee a resident of the Wellington district for 53 years. Lieut. Ivan who has won the V.C. for conspicuous gallantly in France, is the son of the late All John Guillum-Scott, at one time manager of the Bank of New Zealand m Woodville, and also in Palme: ston North and grandson of the late General John Guillum-Scott, England.

Captain Bellamy, O.C. No. 4 Group, Hamilton, has been notified of the termination of his appfsintment. It is announced that Captain A. H. Burn, who previously was group commander at Nelson, and who has seen service in tho Boor War, as well as tho late struggle, has been appointed to succeed Captain Bellamy.

Mr A. H. Joseph, of Hagley street, Riccarton, . has now. returned to his home, and is making an excellent, though necessarily slow, recovery from his recent serious illness and operation. Private George A. W. Foster has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the field of action. Private Foster is tho third son of Mr and Mrs Foster, Ruapuna, and left with the 17th Reinforcements. One brother has returned, and smother is still in France.

The staff of St. Andrew's College has been again increased by the appointment of Mr H. S. Baverstock, an exstudent of Canterbury College, as house master. Mr Baverstock, who has completed his University course and his period of training at tne Normal School, has had several years' teaching experience. He is a returned soldier, and saw active service in France during 1916 and 1917., mainly in the Somme area. He will assist with tho physical drill and sports in the College.

Major Hugh Short and Mrs Short are passengers from England by the Ruahine, which will arrive in Wellington this month. Major Short was attached to the New Zealand Medical Corps, and left with the Main Body. Ho was invalided from Gallipoli, and afterwards was appointed medical officer at Hornchurcn. From there he was promoted to the position of senior medical officer at Sling Camp. Since July, 1918,. Major Short has been travelling between the military hospital in England, finally serving at Walton as specialist in diseases of the chest.

Captain L. C. M. S. Amery, one of the new British Ministers, is Unionist member for Birmingham South. He was formerly on tho editorial staff of the liondon "Times," . and edited " 'The Times' History of tho South African War." He is a captain in the Warwickshire Regiment, and for a few months in the early stages of the war was on the staff of the British Army Corps. In 1915 he was sent on a special mission to the Balkans, and was afterwards on the General Staff of the War Office, and later served on the General Headquarters Staff at Salonika. He was appointed, Assistant-Secretary to the War Cabinet in IQI7.

Very cordial appreciation of the services of Mr William Davidson to tho cause of education was expressed at the meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute in Wellington. Mr C. R. Munro (president-eloct) moved: "That on Mr William Davidson's retirement from the position of editor of the 'Journal of Education,' this Institute places on record its warm appreciation of the services he has rendered to national education by his efforts, both as an official of the Institute and as a citizen, and that he be voted a sum of fifty guineas as a slight recognition of his services as editor of the 'Journal' for 20 years." The motion was carried.

A special vote of thanks wa s extended by the New Zealand Educational Institute to the organising secretary, Mr E. U. Just, on behalf of the teachers of New Zealand. The Institute heartily complimented Mr Just on the tactful and forceful way in which he had set on foot education propaganda among the public. Mr F. A. Garry stated that Mr Just had rounded off a career of usefulness by excellent services to the profession and the cause of education. Miss Wilson said that Mr Just was one of the pioneers \Vho had blazed tbo trail for others to follow. The public, as well as tho teachers, were indebted to him. In his reply, Mr Just emphasised tjie need for consolidating the profession as a body, and consolidating its opinions. If they had divisions and had differences of opinion, they could not carry the weight with the public, and especially with Parliament, that they should carry.

Major Geoffrey Armstrong Buddie, imperial Army, who has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order, is the second son of Mr C. F. Buddie, solicitor, of Auckland. Major Buddie, who nolds two other decorations, is 31 years of age, and an old boy of tho Auckland Grammar School. Alter a period in the employ of Mr Preston Chambers, surveyor, he went to San Francisco and took a course in science and engineering at the University of California, gaining the B.Sc. degree. Ho proceeded to England, where he was engaged upon civil engineering work when the war broke out. Ho promptly secured a commission in tho Royal Engineers, and wa;» sent to Gallipoli. For services there ho was awarded the Serbian Order of the White Eagle. Later he was sent to France, and shortly afterwards received the 'Military Cross. He has been twice gassed, but otherwise has come through unharmed.