PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2750, 19 April 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

_ Lieut. J. R. Stenkouse, of the Antarc- .- tio expedition ship, Aurora, expects to be in Wellington towards the end of • next week. Sir Joseph Ward arrives in Wellington from Christohurch this morning. Captain White-Parsons, R.N.R., harbourmaster at Napier, who left Napier yesterday morning, en route to join H.M.S. Cornwall, was presented with a leather suit case by the Harbour Board's staff. Private Herbert Crawford, aged 25, a native of Adelaide, where his relalives _ reside, died in Victoria Military Hospital on Monday from- a complication of diseases,, accelerated by a weak heart. He went away with the Main Expeditionary Force, and returned by the Tahiti in September. The body will be interred at Karori to-day with military honours. ■' Mr. H. L. Heron, general manager - of the Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd., has been elected-chairman of-the Associated Banks of Victoria. The following appointments were ap« ' proved yesterday by the Wellington Education Board -.—lsland Bay (infant i'« mistress), Miss C. E. A. Acneson; Petone District High School (assistant), Miss I. Thomson and Miss F. L. Ross; Kahautara (sole teacher), Miss F. A. Bodell; iShannou (assistant), Miss J. M. Steel; Kaitoke (sole teacher), Miss C. M. Rains; Manakau (temporary assistant), Miss R. Simons; Clyde Quay (assistant), Miss ■J. Trott. The vacant assistantship at the Normal Scliool (declined by Miss H. M. Webb) is to be readvertised. ■■ At yesterday's meeting of the Educa- ' tion Board, the resignations were received of Miss C. M. Chatwin, assistant' at Featherston; Miss R. M'Coll, sole teaoher at Hinemoa; and Mr. James Hutton', assistant at the Terrace School. /■ Mr. Baxter Buckley, who went to England in October last for furthej . study, has returned to Wellington. Mr. James Nicholson, of Messrs'. Mace and Nicholson, contractors, left Auckland yesterday on a health-recruit- ' ing visit to Honolulu. Mr. E. K. Rishworth, pupil teachtsr at New.town, and Mr. Kennedy, pupil, teacher at the Mount Cook Boys' School, who are going into camp, were given leave of absence by the Education Board yesterday. , A Departmental presentation is to be made to-day to Mr. H. J. H. Blow ) // "Under-Secretary for. Public Works, on ; ■ his retirement from the Puhlio Service. Mr. H. M. Chisholm, who was for some years a member of the • Napier . Borough Council, has recently taken up . his residence in Wellington. The . pier Borough Council, being desirous s of presenting him with an illuminated address, communicated with the Mayor r of Wellington (Mr. J. P. Luke), and the latter made_ the presentation at last night's meeting of the City Conn-. , oil.