PERSONAL ITEMS.
Their Excellencies the Earl and Countess of Liverpool and suite attended Divine service at Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, yesterday morning. Dr. Alfred Sandston, arrived from the north by the Tarawera yesterday. Mr William Fisher is gazetted Registrar of Electors for the electoral district of Kaiapoi. Mr F. C. M. Allison is gazetted Deputy-Registrar of Marriages, Births, and Deaths for the Kaikoura district. Dr. H. W. Martindale Kendall is gazetted Port Health Officer at Wellington, vice the late Dr. Henry Pollen. Mr A. H. Holmes, Registrar of the vSup'reme Court, resumed duty on Saturday, after a holiday. Mr A. W. Porter (Alameda, Calif.) and Mr H. P. Moore (New York), are visitors to Cliristchurch. Mr Ernest C Duncan, of tho Wellington branch of Lhe New Zealand Insurance Company, has been transferred to the company's Calcutta branch, and left oy the Ulimaroa last week. Mr G. Coghill has been appointed to succeed Mr E. H. Lawford as manager of the Dannevirke branch of the Union. Bank of Australia, owing to the Jatter's appointment as manager of tho Gisborno branch. Mr G. E. Mannering. :::nger of tho Union Bank at Napier. :as been ap-
pointed manager of tin v hristchurch branch, and -will take r." his new duties shortly. Ho will be hii.xeedod at Napier by Mr A. H. Glasgow, manager of the Wanganui branch. Mr G. W. Otterson Assistant Bill Reader of the House of Representatives, underwent an operation in the Mater Misericordia Hospital, Auckland, recently. The operation was successful, and he is now progressing satisfactorily. Mr P. MacLeau has been appointed' accountant at the branch of the National Bank at Napier. For eight years Mr Mac Lean has been on tho staff of tho Bank of Now Zealand, and filled tho position of acting-manager at Outram. Sir John Findlay's two sons, Major Findlay and Captain Findlay, M.C.. of the Imperial Army, who returned to New Zoaland by the Niagara, passed through Christchurch on Saturday with Lady Findlay on a short visit to Dunedin. Mr J. Pollock, who for the past eight vears has been Messrs Beath and Company's representative in tho North Canterbury district, leaves New Zealand by the Ruahine on February 14th. Mr Pollock's destination is Scotland, where ho will join his brother in his drapery business. On the occasion of his leaving the employ of the Christchurch Press Company, Mr J. P. Mulrooney, of the stereo staff, was presented with a suit case by members of tho different departments he was associated with. Mr Mulrooney is taking up tho position of head stereotyper of the Timaru "Herald." ' The influenza pandemic r&calls tho fact that 27 years ago tho disease was raging at its_ height in Britain, and among the victims on January 14th, 1892, was the elder brother of the present King, the Duke of Clarence, who died from double pneumonia following influenza, at tho age of twenty-eight years. Mr Donald Robertson, .1.5.0., Public Service Commissioner, passed through Christchurch on Saturday from Wellington en route to Invercargill. He is £vt present engaged on matters relating to the re-classification of tho Public Service. Ho expects to return to Wellington towards the end of this week. <
Our Dunedin correspondent tele- ! graphs: In railway administrative circles it is surmised that, consequent on Mr S. P. Whitcombe's retirement from the service at the end of March next, Mr W. Bowles will be appointed his successor, and that Mr R. M. Isaacs, superintendent and traffic manager for Southland, -will succeed Mr Bowles at Dunedin. The undermentioned officers have been appointed to the instructional classes to be conducted fn Trentham Camp:— Physical and bayonet fighting instructor. Captain A. )V. Brockß, M.C. (Imperial Forces); machine-gun instructor, Captain P. B. Henderson, N.Z.5.0.; musketry instructors, Captain E. Purdon, N.Z.S.C.. and Lieutenant R. J. I>. Davis, N.Z.P-S.; infantry drill instructor, Captain A. Cheater, N.Z.P.S. After the performance at the Opera Houso on Saturday night, the staff andl artists gathered ou the stage to say farewell to Mr Hugh Crawford, who has resigned ftis position. In a short speech the manager, Mr W. Helsdon, eulogised Mr Crawford's services to the Fuller proprietary, and presented him with a brief-bag and a silver-mountedi driving whip. After his health had been drunk with musical honours, Mr Crawford suitably responded. The following candidates passed ''with honours" at the recent examination in accountancy and auditing conducted, on behalf of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, by the University of New Zealand: —Stage 11. (advanced)— First, H. L. Halliday, Wellington; second, E. R. Norman, Wellington; third, O. M. Lockliart, Hastings. Stage I.—First, Gordon Y. Berry, Wellington: second, J. M. Rnnciman, Hastings; third, E. Diehl, Wellington. Tho following candidates passed "with honours'' in the examination for certificates of proficiency in bookkeeping:—First, S. A. Mander, Waaganui; second, C. A. Willis, Wellington; third, L. B. Taylor, Auckland.
Amongst the officers who are to arrive in New Zealand shortly in returning draft No. 208 is Captain Arthur E. T. Rhodes, of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, step-son of tho late Lieuten-ant-Colonel C. E. Thomas, V.D., who was killed on Gallipoli. Captain) Rhodes left Now Zealand with the Main Body ae a corporal in the Bth (South Canterbury) Squadron of the Canterbury Mounted Regiment, and won a commission in the field _on Gallipoli. Subsequently he was aide-de-camp to Major-General Sir E. W. C. _ Chaytor, General Officer Commanding the N.Z.E.F. in Egypt, and Inter he was Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General at Administrative Headquarters in Egypt. Mr C. W. Batten, president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association. has bee„n appointed Repatriation Officer for the Wellington district'(the military area, which comprises the whole of the Wellington, Hawke's Bay, and Taranaki provinces, and part of the Gisborne district). Mr Batten had active service with the Main Body on Gallipoli. Before he enlisted he was an importer on his own account. After his discharge in 1916 he became a very active worker for returned soldiers. Ho was one of the founders of the New Zealand Association, of which he was tho first secretary. He resigned this position in the middle of 1917, and joined the staff of Messrs Levin and Co., Wellington. As a member of the Dominion executive Mr Batten continued to have a keen interest in the welfare of returned soldiers. He was elected a vice-president- of the Association in 1917, and president this year. Ho was also the first honorary editor of ''Quick March," the official paper of the N.Z.R.S.A.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16425, 20 January 1919, Page 7
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