PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2758, 29 April 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. Eraser leaves for Auckland this afternoon. He will be absent from Wellington for about a week. The Hon; A. M. Myers is due back in Wellington froift Auckland this afternoon. . Dr. A. W. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, will leave for Christchurcb. on Saturday to attend the General Synod to be opened at Christchurch next Wednesday. The-bishop has been asked to preach the Synod sermon in Christchurch Cathedral. A welcome home social to the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes is' to be given in the ■ Tai Tapu Hall by'his friends in the district on a day shortly to be arranged. Sergeant-Major C. R. Henry (late of the Gisborne Area Office), who has been in charge of the Mounted Police in Egypt, has rejoined his company. The Ven;. Archdeacon Devoy, who has been rather unwell, is slowly recovering. It was on account 'of .■his illness that the Archdeacon was not able to assist at the ordination of bis nephew, the Rev. Mark Devoy, which took place at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart last' Saturday. Mr. T. L.-.Barker, who has been relieving the Napier branch manager of the Government Life Insurance Department, has returned to.- Wellington. Mr. P, C. J\ Bellringer has been reelected chairman of the Taranaki Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. The representatives of the Auckland diocese at the coming triennial session of the Anglican General Synod will be Dr. A. W. Averill, Bishop of Aucklnnd; Archdeacons Mac Murray and E. Cowie, Canon Tisdall, and Messrs. C. J. Tunks, A.' B. Robertson, A; S. Holmes, and W. J. Speight. The Synod will | open in Christchurch' on Wednesday next. The death is announced of Mr. Robert Harris, of Cob'den, a West Coast pioneer. He was for. many years a member of the Grey County Council, Hospital Board, and' Education Board. A private cablegram received in Auckland states that Lieutenant Cecil Humphreys, of Christchurch, -who has seen much active service on the Western front and been' severely wounded, has been gazetted a captain of the B Company, 12 th Highland Light Infantry. The death occurred at Southsca on March 8 of Mr. Fred. T.. Jane, tho famous naval -writer and founder of Jane's "Fighting Ships," the naval annual. Passionately devoted to ' the sea from boyhood, lie became an authority on naval matters, concerning which he was a prolific writer, especially in recent years and 6ince the outbreak of w : ar. Mr. John Marshall, first assistant at the Hastings District High. School, has been appointed headmaster of the Havelock North School, vice Mr. R. 8.. Holmes, who has retired on superannuation. Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett arrived in Wellington yesterday. He leaves to-night for Christchurch. It is announced that Lieutenant E. J. Hulbert, well known in Wellington and Christchurch, who left with the Main Body as a member of tho Mounted Signal Troop, and was promoted, to captain and mentioned in dispatches, has been appointed staif-captato- to the Mounted Rifle Brigade. Private H. Innes-Jones, who was invalided from tho hospital ship Maheno, is now in the New Zealand General Hospital in Cairo, Egypt, _ and has charge of the sanitary section of tho Isolation Ward of the hospital. Ho states that the weather is beginning to get very hot, and there is every indication of a hot summer, according to tho Natives. Ho has met quite a number of Wellington men, including Dr. Bowerbauk, M.D., of Newtown, who is adjutant of tho hospital.