PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2303, 10 November 1914, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

■ $ The Hon. J. 'Allen, loft for the south last night on a'visit to his electorate; He wifl be I 'away from Wellington for some time. V.i The Hon. R. H. Rhodes (Postmaster-' . 'General) is in Canterbury, visiting his .-electorate, Ellesmere. '.The Hon. W. Fraser left by the ferrj' .Steamer last night on his way to hia .own electorate, Wakatipu. ' x Hia Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) is expeoted to reach Wellington from the south by this morn,ing's. ferry. steamer.'; 1 Professor Sir Ernest .Rutherford is » 'passenger from Lyttelton •by this jnorning's ferry steamer. : ; . Acoording to a Press Association message reoeived last night, Captain W. H. D. Bell, who went with,the first Expeditionary Force, was a passenger by the b.s. Narua, which roaqlied Auckland last evening from Samoa. The following appointments hp.ve been made by the Education/ ; Board: — 'Assistant-master at Martdnborough, Mr. G. H. Ralph; sole teacher at Drover's Rock, Miss M. Morrison, late of ,Eketahuna: assistant at Pahiatua, Miss ■ , Board j assistant at Dalefield,' Miss L. Hall, late of Otaki; assistant at Levin, /Missß. P. Stone, late of Masterton; assistant at Paekakariki, Miss 0. M. Evans. ' ■ Mr. 0. A. Preston, of the local office , of the New Zealand Shipping Company, has been appointed manager of. tie Foxton branch,\ in successioni to Mr. George Phillips, who has been transferred to the head office at Christchurch. Mr. .Preston leaves for Fox- ' ton in about a week's time. A private telegram received in Wel- : Kngton' yesterday stated that Major A. A. Corngan, of this city, was in action .at Nieuport on Saturday week. He has returned to . London, and. will leave .Vancouver for New, Zealand by tho ~ 'Niagara on December 23., "• Mr. Alex Macintosh, superintendent Sn New Zealand for Dalgety and Co., las returned, from a visit to London. Dr. Gribberi, Deputy-Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals, left by tho Pateena yesterday on a visit of inspection to Nelson. Mr. Nat. Gould, a fourth-year 'stufent of Dunedin, has been appointed second assistant medical .officer in the Napier Hospital. ' At last evening's meeting of the Wel- ; lington Patriotio Sports and Entertainment Committee, Mr. H. Amos, tho secretary of the . committee, was presented, with a'gold watch in. recognition ' of'.his 6emoes "in the movement: The chairman of the .committee (Mr. 0. P. Skerrott, K. 0.) spoke in terms of ■ praise of Mr. Amos's work for ' the cause, and said that the present was a very | slight token of the committee's appreciation and gratitude. The present is from the members of the committee personally* Dr. R. M'Nab yesterday reoeived a' cablegram. from England, stating that his brother, Dr. Angus M'Nab, was killed, in action on tho French frontier on Friday week. Dr. Angus M'Nab had served in the Boer War, and was ophthalmic surgeon in the Charing Cross Ophthalmic Hospital, London, and practised in Harley" Street, London. He had been educated in. Berlin and ■Vienna, and was an accomplished French and German scholar. He published a work \ipon the eye, and translated into English a.i celebrated German, work on the same subject. He leaves a widow and two little children.