PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2919, 3 November 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The lion. A. L. Herdman visited Gore and Invercargill on Monday. He returned £0 Dunedin on Tuesday, and will spend a couple of days' thero before leaving for tho north. Tho Minister of Public Works (tho Hon. W. Fraser) arrived in Dunedin by the second express from the north on Tuesday. He will leave there today for Invercargill. Tho Hon. J. G. W. Aitken, M.L.C., of Wellington, has now been nominated for the Moderator's chair by the Ashburton, Wellington,. Christchurch, Wanganui, Clutha, Southland, Nelson, Waikato, and Dunedin Presbyteries. Mr. Harold Beauchamp, chairman of tlio Bank of Neiv Zealand, is expected back from Canada and the United States in about a fortnight. Mr. Kwei Cbih, Consul for China, with his wife and son, left 011 a short visit home by the s.s. Moeraki. During Mr. KwePs absence the affairs of tho Consulate will be in the care of Mr. me H. Jackson, the secretary of the Consulate.

• The Rev. T. Tait, Presbyterian minister at Port Ahuriri, has.received and accepted a call toManaia (Taranaki). The Rev. J. A. Asher has been appointed moderator of Port Ahuriri m the interim, the charge to become vacant on November 12. 1

Captain W. N. Bond, of tho 24tK Mounted Rifles, has been transferred to Headquarters, Wellington, as adjutant and quartermaster.of the hospital ship Maheno. with the rank of major.

A Press Association message from London states that. Second Lieutenant Alan Miller, of the Yorkshires, a son of the late Postal Chief Inspeotor in New Zealand, has died of wounds received in action.

On Wednesday evening Major Cardale, whilst motor-oycling from Foatherston,, collided with another cyclist, and was seriously injured. He is now lying in the Greytonn Hospital.

Mr. S. Mirams, secretary and accountant to the New Zealand Hardware Co., Dunedin, has been appointed secretary to Messrs. John Duthie and Co.,' hardware merchants, Wellington.

Colonel Tracy, Anglican chaplain at Trentham Camp, is in ill-health, and on medical advice is away recuperating, Chaplain Mullineaux is looking after Trentham during Colonel Tracy's absence.'

The Hon. J. Allen went to Palmerston yesterday, returning in the evening to Wellington. The Hon. R. M'Nab also visited the show at Palmerston yesterday.

. The Hon. G. W. Russell leaves today for Rotorua, but he will spend part of the . day at the Palmerston Show en route.

; The appointment of Mr. C. A. Mathieson as deputy-censor of telegraph messages at Wellington is gazetted.

Mr. G. C. B. Jordan has been appointed permanent head of the Native Department, with the title of undersecretary.

Commissioner Hodder has been requested by the. Defence Department to nominate two further chaplains—one to accompany the Nineteenth Reinforcements and the other for service with the troops in Egypt. Adjutant Bladin, who has been engaged at the Salvation Army's Institute at Featherston during the last nine months, will proceed with the Nineteenth Reinforcements, while Adjutant Winton,' of Auckland, will go as a chaplain to Egypt. In addition to the above, at the request of General Booth, Commissioner Hodder has appointed Captain Elston and Captain M'Pherson, with their wives, to take lip work in the interests of the Anzacs in connection with the Salvation Army's Institutes in England and France. Here they 'will minister to the spiritual as well as the temporal needs of the men, the wives also doing duty connected with the institutes. '

' Sergeant W. R. M'Vicar, of the Nineteenth Reinforcements, who was accidentally killed at Lower Hutt Station on Tuesday night, was the son of Mr. Frederick M'Vicar, of Paparangi,Johnsonville. He had been interested in soldiering from his boyhood days— schooj cadets, senior cadets, volunteers, and then a soldier. As a schoolboy at Johnsonville he won the school cup for shooting, and at the Trentham meeting he was the winner of the cup in tho competition for the wliole of the schools_ of the district. He enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth Reinforcements, but was later transferred to tho Nineteenths as a n.c.0., and speedily gained sergeant' 6 stripes. Ho was exceedingly popular with his fellows. Mr. M'Vicar has another son serving at the front with the machine-gun section- of tho Seventeenth Reinforcements.

Mr. P. Woodroffe, for many years secretary of the Civil Service Club, re-r. tired from that position at the end of last month. On Wednesday night ho was met by the club staff, some of whom have been under his jurisdiction for eight years, and was presented with a farewell gift by Mr. A. Daniel, chief steward, who, on behalf of his staff, expressed every good wish for Mr. Woodroffe's future welfare, and thanked him for many acts, of kindness and consideration, and expressed regret at his severance from the institution.. Mr. 0. G. Allan, for many years in the employ of the late Mr. A. A. S. Menteath, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Woodroffe as secretary of the cluh.

■ Advice received in Wellington annouses the death in Auckland on. | Wednesday of Miss Jane Foote, who for many years had conducted Rawlingston Private Hospital, Grafton Road, Auckland. Nurse Foote was a daughter fo Capt. W. Foote, who sailed out from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the Manukau in.his own vessel, with his wife and family, in the 'sixties, and is now living in Auckland, aged 34, an 3 is a cousin of Mr. J. R. Gibbons, 'of Wellington. The deceased lady had been in .ill health for 6ome months before her deaths Dr. Percy Foote, Medical Superintendent of the T/est'port Hospital, is one of her nephews. Her youngest sister. Nurse Ivy Foote, formerly of Wellington Hospital, was at' latest advices in the hospital ship Dunluce Castle. The late Nurse Foote was for. three years (one term) president of the New Zealand Trained Nurses' Association. Miss M'Lean, Assistant Inspector of Hospitals, states that Miss Foote'a death is a great loss to the nursing profession.! * ' .