PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2869, 6 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. Dr. M'Nab is leaving for Auckland on Friday. He will probably visit Gisborne on recruiting business before returning to Wellington. The Hon. G. W. .Russell returned from Auckland yesterday morning. Mr. George Wilson, a member of the Supplies Board of Atlvice, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Kate Wilson, returned to Wellington in tlie Riverina after a holiday in Australia. At the end of February next, Mr. J. L. H. Ledger, Controller of Money Ordors and Savings Banks, will have served forty yoar B in the Post and Telegraph Department, and will then retire on superannuation. Mr. Ledger entered the head office of the Telegraph Department (when it was separated from the Postal Department) in 1877, at which, time the late Dr. Lemon was general manager, and the Hon. A. T. Slaginnity, M.L.C., was chief clerk. His career has been unique, inasmuch as ho has spent the whole of his full forty years on the head office staff, which no other officer now in tlie service can claim. Mr. Ledger, who has been connected with tho accountants branch at headquarters, .becamo Controller of Money Orders and Savings Banks in 1909, when Mr. W. R. Morris was promoted to be Assistant-Secretary of the Department, and that position ho still retains. Mr. H. A. R. Huggins is at present Assistant-Controller and Chief Clerk. •

There was a representative gathering at the funeral of the Jate Mr. John Iteith yesterday morning. A short service was conducted by the Rev. J. Cumming. Six members of the session of the Kliandallah Presbyterian Church acted as pall-bearers. The late Mr. Reith had been for many years a prominent member of that church, rendering invaluable services. He regularly occupied tho pnlpit at both the Khandallan and Johnsonville Churches, and took a most active interest in all branches of the church work. In all matters affecting the interests of the borough in which he lived, he also took the keenest interest, and his death is a distinct loss to the district. Widespread sympathy is felt for his wife and daughters. Prionto taking up residence at Khandallah,'lie rendered good service in connection with St. John's Church,' and to various other Presbyterian Churches in Wellington and the suburbs. ' <•

Major P. B. Henderson, N.Z.S.C., of Christcliurch, who was in command of tho invalided men -who returned by the Arawa, is still limping as the result of a broken leg, caused at Gallipoli by a shell splinter. He was in an English hospital for some time prior to de-, parting for New Zealand, end ho anticipates tliat it will be necessary for him to undergo further treatment in New Zealand before he will recover the full use of the fractured limb.

A cablegram received in Palmerston North roports the appointment of Dr. Stowe to the position of radiologist at the Walton-on-Thames Hospital, England. : Mr. Brownell, acting-national secretary for the Y.M.C.A. in New Zealand, is at. present in tbo south. He will return at the end of the week. Mr. M. Morrison, of Tailiane, intends leaving for England in about a month for tne purpose of visiting "Ilia son, who is in a military hospital. Dr. Archer Hosking, of Masterton, has been appointed a member of the Claims Board of the Wairarapa Patriotic Association. Tile members of the Tivoli Follies, who have toured New Zealand most successfully, will leave for Sydney by the Rivorina io-morrow.