PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2743, 11 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the Governor will open the new central depot of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John at 4 Mercer Street, to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.

The Prime Minister (the Eight Hon. W. E. Massey) goes to' Feilding on Monday to address a recruiting meeting. Ho will also bo present at the opening of the now freezing works there in the aftsrnoon.

The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Ward left by the midday express for 'Auckland yesterday.

Lieutenants Stewart. Goss, and Donaldson, cadets, -who have.been undergoing training aftlio Duntroon Military College, returned to New Zealand by the Riverina yesterday.

Captain White-Parsons, R.N.R., harbourmaster at Napier, has been ordered to join the colours. He will report for duty at an Eastern port. ■

Superintendent O'Donovan, of Wel« 'ington, has been elected unopposed to represent .the Police Force on the Public Servic'o Superannuation Board.

Mr. Ashmead Bartlet't, war correspondent, who was in Gallipoli during the greater part of the recent campaign, arrived from Sydney yesterday by the Riverina

Mr. W: Shrimpton has been re-elect-ed chairman of the Hawke's Bay Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

Mr. C. D. Kennedy, Hawke's Bay County Engineer, has been appointed a member of the Institute' of Civil Engineers, London.

The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald and the Hon. J. A. Hanan have returned from the south.

_ Dr. Cameron returned from Sydney by the Riverina yesterday.

Mr. E. G. Staveley, ono of the best, known business men in Christchurch, died yesterday. Mr. Staveley began his career with the Bank of New Zealand, afterwards entering into partner"lip with Mr. Richard T. Webb at fcoiithbridgo, where the firm of Webb and Staveley traded as produce and gram merchants and commission agents He joined the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company in 1882, becoming Christchurch manager in 1593. This position he held until he retired from the service in, December, 1911, to start business as a wool and produce and stock agent. He was chairman of directors of the Addington Saleyardir Company. Mr. Staveley was a man of most genial temperament, and was deservedly popular.

Mr. J. 'S. Waters, assistant tramcar shed, superintendent, is about to leave for England in order that he may take part in munition work.

The Petone District High School flag was flying at half-mast yesterday'as a mark, of respect to a the memory of Gunner Cyril Hebbend, who was 'killed "} -Flanders on March 25. Gunner Uebbend was on a health recruitina trip to Australia, and whilo there joined the forts from which 400 men volunteered to man a siege battery which' was sent to England. On March 2; after recovery from a further illness in Jingland, he was sent to the front, and now his relatives) have received news of his death.

Major J. O'Sullivan banded over control of the Ordnance Branch of the Dereiice Department yesterday .to Captain iu tell > ™ s successor; Tho staff of the Department paraded for the occasion Brigadier-General Robin wa s present, and he referred to the good work and loyalty of Major O'Sullivan and the staff, and said that in his new position Major O'Sullivan would havo to check and criticise the equipment and etoies of the Dominion. Bidding farewell to the staff, Major O'Sullivan said that he had been associated with tho Department for over thirty-three years The Department had grown in that time from having a staff of four in the office and eight '■ workmen, to possessing a staff of twenty ii! the office and eighty workmen. In the old days they carried a stock of 8000 Sriiders aiid about 250,000 rounds of ammunition; now they had equipped the 48,000 men who haij been called up, and'had equipped the Territorials as well.

The Rev. T. Halliday, of Lansdoirae, Masterton, has (says our special correspondent) received a unanimous call from the Whakatane Presbyterian Church.

Mr. H. G. Wake, headmaster of the East Christchurcli School, has register,ed for active service, and attended his medical examination. His ohiof reason' for trying to get away was the hope offsetting an example to the younger men.