Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16729, 12 January 1920, Page 6

Personal Items.

*- Archbishop Redwood leaves Weffinptor. to-day for San Francisco, on his wnv to England and tho Continent, lio will be accompanied by tlio Itov. rather ! Maillard. parish priest of Levin. Sir Joseph "Ward arrived in Christehttrch on Saturday from Wellington, and expects to stay here for a day or two. Asked by a ••Press" representa- , tive as to his' immediate political in- ' tentions. lie stated that ho was making no announcement just yet. I Among the passengers from tho north on S.n:irdav were the lion. Sir Francis Hell i.Minister of Education and Public Health). Lieutenant-Colonel IT. E. Avery. P. 5.0.. and Commissioner Hodder. of the Salvation Army. Major-General Sir Edward Chaytor, K.C.SI.G.. C.8.. U.0.C.. New Zealand Forces, Brigadier-General G. S. Richardson! C.H., C.M.U, and LieutenantColonel' H K. Avery. D.5.0., aro at present in Christchurch on business connected with tho Defcnco Department. Owing to ill-health, Mr F. O. Millward tendered his resignation as secretary of tho Wanganui Harbour Hoard, on Friday nicht. Great regret was expressed at tuo sU>p Mr Milhvard had found it necessary to take, and it was decided to ask hiin to act as consulting secretary at his present salary for another year. Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Florcus, D.5.0.. 0.8. E. (MilA. has returned to his lioine in Opaiva. Dr. Herons, who was A.D.M.G. to the Anzac Mounted Division, went to tho war with tho Main Body in 1914, nnd remained on continuous active service in Egypt, Gallipoli. and Palcstino right, up to tho close of tho Egyption rebellion. News has just been received by cable that Mr IV G. Blunt, eldest son of Profeisor Blunt, of Canterbury College, lias, ns a result of the examination held last October, received an appointmont in the Indian Civil Service. By tlio new regulations. Mr Blunt will spend a year at Oxford before proceeding to tako up his duties in India.

Mr C. F. Bickford, who lias occupied tho position of honorary financial organiser to tho Auckland Joint Committeo of tho British Bed Cross and the Order of St. John for tho past three years, has left for Sydney en route for England. Mr Bickford lias been appointed New Zoaland delcgato to tho international Bed Cross conference, which will bo at Geneva on March 2nd. At the opening of the matinoe performance of Wirth's circus at Dunedin on Satnrday (telegraphs our correspondent), a presentation of a handsomely worked wallet was mado to Mr Georgo "Wirth, on behalf of tho soldier patients at the Dunedin hospital. Tho Bev. V. G. Bryan King mado tho picsentation, and referred to tho generous manner in which Mr Wirth had treated "tho boyB" whilo in Dunedin.

A gathering of railway officials was held at Auckland last week to bid farewell to two of their number who aro about to leave Auckland on promotion. Mr A. Duncan, district traffic manager presided. Tlio two officers wero Mr L. C. E. Hamann, who has been in the Auckland district traffic oflico for about twenty years, and filled tho position of chief clerk for some seven years, and who is about to tako up an appointment as assistant district traffic manager in Christchurch, apd Mr 0. L. Anderson, hitherto staff clerk in Auckland, who has been promoted to tho bead office of tho Department in Wellington. In tho name of tlio staff of tho Auckland railways, Mr Duncan presented Messrs Hamann and Anderson with a suit-case each, accompanying tho presentation with warm tributes to their ability and devotion ns railway sen-ants. He specially emphasised tho ability displayed by Mr Hamann in his administrative work, his tireless industry in his official duties, and his unvafying courtesy to the public. Several other leading officers of the Auckland section spolce on similar lines. Tho members of tho "New Zealand Herald" staff also presented Mr Hamann with a memento.