Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16722, 3 January 1920, Page 9

Personal Items.

-Messrs A. K. McDoupalL J. H. ]\J C _ ■Doupali, .'Hill D. SpcddinpT«f Dunedin), arrived in Christehurcli from Hanmor Sprinps yesterday. They motor to Dnncdm to-day. }) • T'- accountant to th<* Iviucation Department, Wellington, has been appointed secretary to the.Hawke's JJay Iviucation Hoard and th« Napier High Schools Hoard.- fio will take up ins new duties next month. Sover.il promotions and transfers will shortly take place in tlu» Polico .Force. Sub-Inspector .Mullany, of Christchurch, has bten promoted to the position of Inspector, and will leave shortly for \\ hanparei. .Llis successor will ho SuhInspei tor 1-ew, of (iisborne. Serpeant Ilvland, of Christchurch, is to bo transferred to Href ton, and will bo succeeded !>v Serpeant Roche, of Auckland. Constable Palmer poes to Timaru, and Constabh? barren to Kaiapoi. Constable W . 1 tnive, lato of New Brighton, and now of (Juecnstown, is to succeed C'orsstaMo V\*il<-on at Phillipstown. Oonstal'ie Wilson is shortly to retire. Constable Magpin is to po from Ash burton to Akaroa. Lieutenant-Commander F. A. Worshiy, D.5.0., R.]).. 1t.N.11., formerly i-hief ollicer of tho New Zealand fiovernnient steamer Hincmoa. has received a bar to the D.S.O. for his sen-ices in Russia this year. It is piven, tho official account tells, iu recognition of the L.iilantn- displayed by him at Pocha, between August 2nd and oth, U)lf). 'Thi- officer tormed one of a larpe pat- ■'<»[. which in c ireumstawes of great huiiier and difliculty penetrated many theericmv lines, and by his nil;iiliiiLily cheery leadership ho kept up ■ he spirits of all under trvinp condi.ion;:. I'.y his assistance in bridpinp an '.nfordabie river f>ehind the enemy lines, u» L'rcailv helped the success of the erier;.'ri c e. ; Lie;itenant-C.>mmandor Wor<i'v was ma ter of the Kndurnncp. in the viackletnn Antarctic Expedition. and u- previou-!y was officer and master of rveral oi th<> New Zealand flovernnient ■ teairier =. In November. 1917. he re■eivetl the D.S.O. for services in action. )n that r."cn«ion he met a U-boat at 10-e 'innrteis. -learned for ii. and linnpe l ; i :i o,v;_■!osii"n charge as - the craft .a- sii.vniercrinp. Two Herman =eamen i-ero re-rued and taken to port.