PESSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2882, 21 September 1916, Page 4

PESSONAL ITEMS

9 . Colonel .Hume has received information that his son, Major Frank Hume, RIN.Z.A., has been appointed to command tho Artillery detail at Salisbury. Major Hume was formerly in the D Battery, New Zealand Artillery. He has been at; the front since he left with the Main body of the Expeditionary Force. Mr. Alex. J. Geary, engineer and ■ town clerk of Feilding, has been eleoted'a member of the Institute of Muni-.' cipal Engineers of England. Mr. Geary, who is the eldest son of Mr..A. Geary, of H.M. Customs, Wellington, was. born and educated in Wellington, andbefore he left for Feilding he was ohief clerk in the City' Electrical Lighting Department. He is a member of tha Incorporated Institute of Accountants of New Zealand. Mr. P. ,W. Woodroffe, who has occupied position of secretary and manager of tho Civil Service Chartered Club for the past ten years, is about to retire in order to be able_ to devote the .'whole, of his time to private business. The resignation) which takes effect as from October 31 next, was accepted by the committee with very great regret,' the ohairman and other members expressing the hope that the club would continue to receive in another capacity the retiring secretary's ' assistance and advice in the management of the club's affairs. Captain Donald Simson leaVes Wellington to-day on his way to England to rejoin his regiment. Captain Simson 6ays that he wishes to express his appreciation of tho backing ho received from the public here in his work respecting tho Soldiers' Club. He hopes the returned soldiers will support their associations. , ' . Tho death took place in Americaearly in August of Mr. F. W. Franxland, at one time Commissioner of the Government Insurance Department in New Zealand. The deceased gentleman had a brilliant . career .at University Colloge, London, moro especially as _ a student of mathematics. It was his in* tention on leaving University College* to proceed to Cambridge, but a_ breakdown through overwork led to his making a voyage' to New Zealand in the! hope of regaining his health. On his recovery his 'high mathematical attainments found scope in the newly-form-ed Government Insurance Department of New Zealand, of which he afterwards became Chief Commissioner. _ He represented New Zealand as statistical delesate at the International Congress oB and Demography, held in Londdn in' 1891. His reputation as an , actuary led to his being called to fill appointments in London and in New York, and during the past two years ho acted as consulting actuary to the Equitable Insurance Company of l\ew York. • Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Kenny, of 247Tinakori Road, have been advised that their eon, Gunner J. H. Kenny, wlici was reported wounded 6omo time back; , is now convalescent. Mr. C. J. Parr, who has been tour-' ■ ing the Homo coiintrv and France as * member of-the Now Zealand Paxliamentarv party, hopes to reach Auckland about October 16 with' Mrs. Parr, who joins him in Canada. Reference to the death of the lateSir G Maurice O'Rorke was made at ■ the meeting of the Auckland University College Council, when tho followresolution was passed: "That this council records its deep sense of the valuable services rendered to the cause of national education in New Zealand b T tho late Hon. Sir George Maurice O'Rorke, who from the foundation of the Auckland University College until tho day of his death was chairman oj its governing body. During all tha* time he did his best to promote the interest of higher education ,in Auckland and to increase the public useful- , ness of this college, whoso establishment wo owe in great measure to hi., earnest efforts in the past."