PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2955, 15 December 1916, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

A The Hon. J. Allen will be back in Wellington this morning, returning from the South Island by the ferry steamer. ' The Hon. G. W. Russell is cxpected to return from the north to-day, ■ , Dr. H. J. T. Thacker, M;P., who has been on a visit to America, passed through Wellington _ this week on his return to his home in Christchuroh. Mr. S, R. Dickinson, .Mi A., v<lio recently. retired from Scots' College, Wellington, in the launching of which he played a leading part, was on Wednesday appointed headmaster of St. Andrew's College, Christchurch, a_' now Presbyterian School for boys which is to be opened in February next under the auspices of the Presbyteries of Christchurch and Ashburton. It is confidently anticipated that the college will be as successful in supplying the needs of the South Island as Scots College has been for the North Island. The Government has appointed Mr. 0. A. Ewcn and Dr. C. Chilton to be members of the. Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute. ' The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration lias been awarded to the Rev. E. C. W. Powell, chaplain of the Forces, 3rd class. Mr. A'. O'L. Considine has been appointed by the Government to represent the combined districts of Featherston and Martinborough Town Boards on the Wairarapa Hospital Board. Mr. Robert Williamson has arrived in AVellington to make arrangements for the Christmas-New Year soas.on here of Williamson's Musical Comedy Company. Mr. E. Dickinson, formerly of the soft-goods'firm of Edmondson and Dickinson, is seriously ill. in a. Wellington private hospital.. Private Alfred East, son of Mr. J. East, of Gisborne and a former teacher of the Clyde Quay School, Wellington, is returning to New Zealand by' a transport which is due at.-Tort Chalmers early next m.onth. Private East was wounded in the-Gallipoli campaign while serving with tlip Medical Corps. Mr. Paul Dufault, the French-Ca-nadian tenor, and the members of his concert company passed' through Wellington yesterday, en .rpute to the south. The New Zealand -tour is to conclude in Nelson on Boxfng Night, and. the company will leave here for Sydney en route to Jiva and the East on December 28. Mr.- Fredk. Shipman, the manager, left for Sydney yesterday to make the necessary forward arrange-' men'ts. Mr. John Barr, chief librarian and director of the Auckland, Public Library, Art Gallery, and Old Colonists' j Museimi, arrived by the express from Auckland yesterday. He is staying at the Hotel Cecil. . ! On Sunday last,-at,the Jewish Social Club, Lower Cuba Street, Private H. Boock was presented with a wristlet watch prior to his departure wjtli the Twentieth Reinforcements. This is the fourth and youngest ' son of Mr. J. Boock who w : ill be away "on active service. ■ Private. H. Boock .was. an oldAVellington College boy. When saying good-bye to.the infants, at the .Clyde . Quay School yesterdaymorning, Mr. W. T.. Grundy, the retiring headmaster, was taken by'surprise by being made, the recipient of a handsome leather suit-case, subscribed to solely by the little ones .as a parting gift to qne.whose firm yet kindlv treatment has endeared him to tho children and .the parents of the Clyde Quay School district.

Mr. John Tait, of the firm of .J. and N. Tait. and the members of the "Peg o' My Heart" Company, left for Sydney by the Moeraki yesterday evening.