PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16427, 22 January 1919, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr Raynor White has returned to CKristchurch after spending a holiday in jth& Auckland and Taranaki districts.

Mr T. W. May, architect, of Auckland. is at present on a visit to Chris tchttroh. He goes on to Dunedin today.

The Rev. J. K. Archer, Chaplain to the Forces, formerly of Cifcmp, has accented a unanimous call from tho Sydenham Baptist Church. Mr G. J. Anderson, M.P., passed through Christchurch yesterday, on his ■way from Wellington to Southland. Ho has boon engagca on work in connexion ■with the furnishing of tho new House of Representatives. The New Zealand Council of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers will be represented at the conference of Labour organisations, to be held at Wellington on the 28th inst., by Messrs James Dickson and W. J. W. \Vills. Superintendent C. C. Warnor, of the Christchurch Fir© Brigade, left last! night for tho North Island on his yearly holiday. Deputy-Superintendent Blake will 06 in charge during Mr Warner's absence. Advice lias been received by Mre K. E. Marshall, of Gloucester street, that her son. Private Seton G. F. Marshall, .who left with the 19th Reinforcements, ifl returning with Draft No. 211. Major J. A. Northcote, formerly commander of the Christchurch group, who was seriously ill for some time ana retired from the service, has now recovered sufficiently to enable him to leave for his station at Waiau, the first ■visit he has been able to make to it for iletrten months. . Surgeon-General H. S. F. Henderson, Director-General of Medical Services, arrived in Christchurch from Wellington yesterday, and inspected tue Orthop£edi c ward at the Christchurch Hospital. 1 , Meade, who has resigned from the post of medical officer to Liverpool and Point Elizabeth Collieries, West Coast, and is leaving on February Bth for England, has been appointed medial officer of the New Zealand Shipping Co.'B liner ltuahine. Mt 3D. Cuthbert, engineer to the Chnstchurch Drainage Board, was given leave at last night's meeting of the Board to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Society Of Civil Engineers, to be held next month. J- T. M. Piki, the former Merivalo Itugby Football Club and Canterbury representative half-back, and present hon v treasurer to tho Canterbury itugby linion 1 has received notice of his transfer, on promotion, from the Christchurch Money Order Office to the accountancy branch of the head office of the Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington. Tie Wellington Returned Soldiers' Club hold a reception to General Pau, yesterday (says a Press Association mestt ° ® enera l was loudly chcerod. He was presented with a New Zealand returned soldiers' badge in gold, and was asked to accept life membership of the Association. General : Pau, in acknowledging the compli- . ments, said the New Zealand soldier's part in the war would never bo for- ; gotten. :