PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2575, 24 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Rev. 6. T. Brown, MX, formerly of Gisborne, was yesterday inducted to' Knox Church, Masterton, and -welcomed at a congregational gathering in the evening.

Dr. Ewen, who has resigned from the Wellington Hospital staff . to become medical superintendent of the Timaru Hospital, left for the south last night to enter upon his new duties.

Major F. A. Field, of the Lands and Survey Department, has been appointed captain in the Mounted Rifles reinforcements, and he will leave Auckland, to take up his new duties on September 27. Major Field, who has seen service in Egypt, India, and South Africa, has been training the Parnell. unit of the National Reserve. /

At yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable _ Aid Board it was reported that the,resignation of Dr. H. B. Even, house surgeon, had been accepted with regret, and that Drs. B. T. Aldred, R. H. Barter, S. B. Isdale, and S. Scoular had been appointed house surgeons, vice Drs. Myers, Haslett, Marshall, and Ewen, resigned. The new appointments have been approved by the Inspector-General of Hospitals. •' Dr. Henry Adams has undertaken 'the medical attendance (honorary) at the Clifton Terrace Hospital for Chronio Invalids. ' Trooper Percy Turner, - killed at the Dardanelles, was the only son of Mr. F. C. Turner, Mayor of Elcetahuna. He was thirty years of ago, and was educated at Wellington College! Mr. Francis G. L. Holland, who left New Zealand four years ago_ to study musio abroad, has advised hia parents in Wangamii that lie has received a commission in the Royal Field Artillery. The Rev. W. S. Smith, of Wanganui, has gone into camp at Palmerston North with the ambulance section of the Expeditionary Force.-., Mr. Tansley, who has been in the office of the Offioial Assignee at Wellington for some years, has been appointed to the charge or the office until further notice. The Public Service Commissioner invited applications for the position, and quite;a number was received, but it is not intended to make a permanent appointment for some time to come.

Constable Rosanoski, who has been stationed at Napier for the past ten years, has resigned from tlie service,to go on tho land. Constable H. K. Huntly, of Wellington, succeeds him. A private oablegram received in Weilington on Wednesday stated 'that Private 0. S. Masters, who left with the sth Reinforcements was in the Floriana Hospital, Malta, suffering front enteritis. Ho was reported to be doing well. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Presbytery yesterday the resignation of the Rev. Lawrence Thompson, of Carterton, was aocepted, and lie was presented with a purse of sovereigns.