PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2405, 10 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. j. Ailed will le'aVS dn Friday morning for Gisbornef On Saturday night he will go on to Auokland, where he will probably remain for a day or two.

The Hon. Fraser returns to-day froiii a visit to the Paeroa district/ where, he attended the official opening of a bridge over the Waihou River: !

The Hon. Wnl,. Pitt, architect, of Melbourne, who designed the Grand Opera House here, arrived from Sydney, by the UlimarOa Jfcstcrday. The following appointnlent.B have beeni made by tile Wellington. Education Boardßritomart Street School: Headmaster. Mr. P. Bamiettj jiGsistftnt-mas- 1 ter, Mr. H. Millof.; infant tnistfpss/ Miss I. Hurley; assistant master, Mr". E. H. Rowntrie; assistant mistress# Miss M. 0. Scott; assistant, mistress, Miss B. L. Ziman. Waioroiigomai:: Sole teacher, Miss J. Campbell. Hinemoa: Solo teacher,. Miss R. M'OolL Belvedere: Assistant mistressj Mrs. S. G. Jones. Kilbirnie: Assistant, Mies G.> Finlayson. Mount Cook Infants': Assistant mistress. Miss V, Hunter. Eastern .Hutt: Assistant, Mise D. Hurfell. Manakau:. Assistant, Miss E. Pigott. . ClareTille: Assistant, Miss I. M"Kenzie. Te Aro (Mitchelltown): Assistant, Miss J. S. Johnston. Mikimiki: Sole teacher, Mrs. ft. Woodley. Khandallah: Assistant, Miss M. Daniell. Assistant Woodwork instnuctors,. Mr. Laurence Ward, of Hamilton; Mr: F. J* Ashley arid Mr. A< M'Lachlan.

The Rev. Thomas Flavell ; who has been vioar of ChristoWj Exeter, since 1904, bade farewell to his p&tishiotters on January 10. His medical adviser has insisted that he should resign the living and seek entire rest. Mr. Flavell, who is seventy-six years of age,. has spent a. life of .oeaseless activity. At King's College, London, in 1868, ha was Trench Prizeman, and the head mail .of the year.' After hisiordination he went to Nelson, New Zealand; where _ for twenty-three years he laboured chiefly as a missionary among the goldminefß, also filling the positions .of secretary .of Christchurch Diocesan Synod sad Diocesan Inspector. . On his return to England he acted as S.P.Q. deputation secretary for some years, and for ten years as organising secretary for the diocesea of Exeter and Truro.

Mr. W. Wilkes, of Sichmondj Nelsoni, who lias been on a twelve months' tour of England and the Continent, returned to New Zealand yesterday by the TJlimaroa.

English papers record the. temporary appointment'"of Field-Marshal Lord Methuen as Governor aiid CdmmaJidei'-iii-Chief of Malta, in succession to General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Bsihdle. Lord. Methuen is now. in his Seventieth year. Since the South African iii which ho commanded th© Ist Divisioii of the Ist Army Corps,. he has .been successively Commander-in-Chief or the Eastern Command, and General Omcer Cominanding-in-Chief in South Africa. In 1909 he was Governor of Natal.General Sir Leslie Riindle, -who had been Governor of M&lta since 1909, was on January I appointed to command the sth. New Army. C 2 Mrs. Agnes M'Leany who died in-■ ljngton on Monday, was one of New Zealand's oioneersy having .arrived in: Lyttelton 58 years ago. She was the reliot of the late Mr. John M'Lean, the once well-known contractor, who died at Greymouth some 21 years ago.: The late Mrs. M'Lean's eldest son, Mr. J. W. M'Lean,- is on the corporation staff, and she also leaves three married daughters. Mr. Harold Gregson, of Auckland, who is to judge the musio conipetitiotis % at Christchurch, left for the . South by, . the Maori last evening. The Rev. N. S. Barnett, who has been appointed, vicar of Patea,- left for yesterday evening. The Rev.. H. H. Robiohfts, who succeeds Mr. Barnett as assistant-curate of St. Paul e, Thorndon, arrived from Auckland yesterday. lii the annual report of the New Zealand Accountants' and -Auditors • Association, regret Was .expressed at the loss sustained hy. the association through the deaths Of Mr. .A. Bow and Mr. E'. S. Medley, both 6i Auckland.

Mr. Chas. Kelly, leading hand in the ' .. fitting shop of the Petone Hallway. 4 Workshops," was presented on Mommy J with a gold watch and a, handbag ion 1 Mrs. Kelly by his fellow-employees. Mr. -...J Bar eh, workshops manager, made the i presentation. Mr. Kelly has been pro- I moted to the office of car and wagon | inspector at j 'The directors of the Pfiparoa Coal- ; Mining Company, Ltd;, have appointed. -j Mr. Wm. Ferguson, C.E., a director, i vice Mr. J. R. Blair, deceased. s