PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2804, 23 June 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir -Walter Buchanan, who has represented the Wairfirapa on the Wellington Education Board for a period of over thirty years, does not, says our Wairarapa correspondent, intend offering himself for re-election at the coming election. • ■ i The Hon. J. Allen, who has been in Dunedin, will return to Wellington this morning.

lhe resignation of Dr. Clay as physician on the honorary staff of the Wellington Public Hospital has been accepted by the Hospital Board with regret, and'appreciation of his services has been recorded.

Lieut. Morey, the Adelaide Khodes Scholar, was flying at Gosport when the machine collapsed and felt five hundred feet. Lieut, Morey was seriously injured Mid was removed to a, hospital. Dr. A. M. Hogg, whoso services have been-accepted by the military, has been granted six months' leave of absence from the honorary staff of the Wellington Public Hospital.

The matron of the Wellington Hospital has been- granted a month's sick leavo.

Mr. L. S. Fanning has resigned from the editorial staff of tho "Evening Post" to carry on independent work. .

News has just been received that Mr. Donald Monro, eldest sou of Mr. C. S. Monro, of Adelaide, and.nephew of Mr. J. D. Cruickshank, was killed in. action in Egypt on June 1. He enlisted with the Main Australian Body, and was on service during the whole of the Gallipoli campaign.

A welcome, home was tendered to Col. J. J. Essou, C.M.G., on Wednesday night by the residents of Ngaio. The Mayor of Onslow (Mr. C. C. Crnmp), Mr. E.'A. Wright, M.P.-, and Councillors Dale and Apgleton all paid tributes to tho merits of Col. Esson as a eoldie»and a man, and expressed the residents' pleasure at the honours conferred on him for tho valuable services ho had rendered to the Empire. On behalf of the Onslow Borough Council, the Mayor presented an address to Col. Esson. A' programme of musical and elocutionary items was given by Miss Amy Smith and G. Fathers, and Messrs. A. OakeT and Smith, Miss Finn acted as accompanist.

The Gazette notifies that the following members of the Presbyterian Church have been made officiating ministers under the Marriage Act:—The Rev. Albert E. Culliford, and Messrs. C. A. Kennedy, Jas. M'Master, sad' J. D. Simpson. ■. ' Mr. J. E. Hammond, Mayor of Hamilton, died on Tuesday, aged forty. He suffered from neart trouble, and threo weeks ago was attacked by bronchitis. Deceased was born in Kent, and came to New Zealand in 1880. He was a leading Freemason and Oddfellow, and in former years was a prominent athlete. He leaves a widow,, a son, and two daughters.

Mr. B. W.. Shallcrass has been appointed honorary secretary to the Att- . vlsory Board of the Federated Patriotic War Relief Societies, his services having been generonsly. loaned by tfl». N.Z. Sports Protection League.. • ■ Tributes to. the late Lord Kitchener' were paid by the Wellington Hospital Hoard yesterday, and the board passed the following motion:—"That the members of this board deeply deplore the lamented death of Field-Marshal Earl Kitchener, while on active service, and. desire to express their .sincere sorrow in the loss the Empire has sustained, by his' death; and that a copy of thie resolution be sent to the Prime Minister lo forward to tho proper quarter." y I Mr. L. E. Barber, who has for the past 18 years been Connected with tho firm of H. Price and Co., Ltd., of this City, and who is leaving to enter into business on his own account in Timaru, was on Saturday night presented by a few of his personal friends with a case of pipes and tobacco pouch. Tho evening took the form of a social gathering, and all present spoke of Mr;-Bar-ber's fair dealings in business matters, and wished Mr. and Mrs, Barber good luck in their new venture.

Private J. Biss, who, as stated in a cablegram'.in.this issue,.has been men. tioned in General Sir" John Maxwell's dispatches, is' a son of Mr. A. S. Biss, of this city. :He left New Zealand with' the second. Stationary Hospital. Prior to enlisting, he was on the M'ellington staff of the Commercial Union Assurance Company. j? . \J