PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2950, 9 December 1916, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

. The Otago -University. Council was notified yesterday by the-Minister of Defence that Dr. Pickenll's.services are required; in England as a jaw specialist in trcatiiis and organising ■ the treatnientof injured soldiers.: The necessary leave-was granted.—Press Association. : .■: "■ The appointment of a Professor of Geology at Otago University,, in succession to Dr! Marshall, was made yesterday. ; There were eleven applicants and Dr. W. N. Benson,' "Lecturer in Geology -at Sydney [Jnivfisiiy, was appointed;— Press Association. .Mr. JR.. A. Mo'ntgomerie, 'of Wanganui, who went- "to England, 'a' fetv . months ago, has -'repeived a commission in the Motor Transport Service,'and is ppirin. training:; His eldest, son,. Oswald, has joined the". Royal ' Flying Corps, Jiis . second sonj Seton, .is in'the Aitists'"'Rifles Officers'"Training, Corps.- Miss. Mont'gomerie-is engaged in work at the New' Zealand Sol--'aiers' Club, in London, anil it is Mrs. Montgomery's intention 1 to join the staff of thesam© club. - A "Association message . from London, received last evening, records the death of Braid, the golferj who was accidentally/ killed. while' -boarding a train at Waterloo station. .' Advice has. been received that LanceCorporal Berteisen, a son .of .Jle. H.;- C. Bertelsen, formerly of Mastertoni .but sow of Cambridge, was killed iir action .on; September 17.' He was previously reported wounded.- . Mr. W. (jandy, who., is leaving Masterton to take a position" as assistant' secretary to. .the Y.M.C.A. in Clirisrchurch,._was 011 Thursday presented by the Wairarapa Amateur Athletic Club with'a fountain'pen. f . .Major Cardale, who .recently Jnst fri.th. ,2U accident. ,on the Greytown Road,; is at ..present recruiting, his .health at Castlepoint. . ■' ■Advice has been received bv Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Richardson, of 97 Wallace Street, ; that; their son, Pte.- G. E. Robert Richardson, is being invalided ■ hoottie,. and will arrive in-New Zealand early. in -January. ■ Pte,. Richardson served in- Samoa,' Gallipoli, and France, and has been twice "wounded. • ■Constable Ede, late ■of .• Lake Taupo district,.-has been ' appointed to. succeed Sergt. M'Kelvio in charge of the .Clyde. Quay. Police. Station. •The following members-of the New Zealand. Dental Corps are' to be honorary captains/whilst acting as expert dental advisers to Medical'Boardsf during the period of the war,, with effcct froni November 16, 1916 Arthur Leslie \ule, i'rederick Henry Barnard, Roy Garfield Crawford', Henry Gunthrop, William Edmund Reynolds, Robert Henry Gilbert, Albert John Broughton Creswell, Herbert Leonard "Ziele, John Gray, James Glendinning, Stewart Allan Noble-Campbell, Charles Eric Carter, Alfred Charles- Atkinson, .Leonard, -Richard Downman,. Benjamin Robert- Amos Grummitt, Horace Norman Talbot, John.Peter Butler, Philip .Rossell Parker, Clarence Edward WoolJey, Oliver 'Beale Townshend, George ■lioby. CutKfert Henry Gresson.. ' As . reported ,on Tuesday, last", at a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Wellington Y.M.C.A., tho members unanimously elected Mr. J. Ilott president. Mr. Ilott lias been on the board since, the association was • established,--and was one of its first • vice-presidents-, and also vice-president for the past year.- Owing to..tho effects :of■' a' recent • severe illness, Mr. Ilott wished-to tender his .resignation, ftut he lias been prevailed upon to hold office until, tho New Year/ hoping for an improvement.:in health. -In the meantime Messrs. W\ H.- George and C. -M. Liike (vice-presidents) will attend to alLpresidential • ■