PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2689, 8 February 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the Governor is to be invited to make a presentation of the D.C. medal to Corporal Frank O'Connor at the Masterton Show on February 16.

Mr. 11. B. Holmes, who for the past 32 years has been' headmaster of the Havelock North school, is (says our Napier correspondent) shortly retiring on superannuation.

At the meeting of the Senate of the University of New Zealand on Saturday, the Chancellor (Sir Robert Stout) conferred the following degrees: Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, N. H. Dempster, E. M. Wyllie, and <W. H. Young; M.A., Gladys G. Everett; LL.B., S. L. Paterson; Bachelor of Commerce, J. L. Griffin and B. E. Murphy.

Mr. John Fuller, jun., is spending a few days in Napier. Mr. J. D. Cruickshank has been appointed a member of the committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association, to represent Wellington, in place ot Mr. 1. Sykos, resigned.

The resignation of Mr. C. Clabburn was received at yesterday's meeting of the Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Harrington Reynolds, the Amencan actor, who figured in Wellington in "The Rosary" and later in "Seven Little Australians," arrived from Sydney by tho Riverina yesterday.

Mrs. F. Smith and Miss J. Smith, of Picton, and Mr. S. M'Laren, ,of Masterton, are staying at the Albert Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. D.' Collins, formerly in the Clarendon Hotel, Christchurch, for many years, and who recently returned from England, have taken over the Royal Hotel, Auckland.