PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3011, 23 February 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

■ Congratulations to Sir James Allen on his .Knighthood were convoyed by the Advisory Board of the War Relief l'cdcration yesterday.

Ihe Hon. J. A. Hanan, Minister of .Education, who lias been visiting Napier, will return to Wellington to-day It is understood that His Honour air John Denniston will not retire from the Supreme Court Benoh before March ■is, and that there is a possibility of his retaining his seat for ' a longer period. If he should retire at the end of next month it is certain that his position will not be filled immediately.

m. ■ ? ss As so clati «n telegram from uhnstchurch announces the death of Mr. H. P. Murray-Aynsley, ox-member of the House of Representatives. The late Mr. Murray-Aynsloy was born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1828, and came out to Lyttelton thirty years later and settled in Christchurch. After many years spent in sheepfarming, he joined the New Zealand Shipping Company in 1873, and was a director of the company for many years. In the days' of the Provincial Government he was a member of the executive, and sat as member for Lyttelton in the Provincial "Council. He represented Lyttelton in the General Assembly from 1876 to 1879.

Captain Woraley, R.N-.R., and Lieut. Stenhouse, R.N.R., who both accompanied Sir Ernest Shackleton in the Aurora to the South Pole regions to rescue the men who were marooned in the Ross Sea, left for Vancouver by the last mail steamer.

Archbishop Redwood, .of Wellington, is at present in Auckland. '

At the meeting of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday, the chairman (Mr. H. Baldwin) moved that the board send a motion of condolence to Mrs. T. M. Wilford on the death of her father, Sir George M'Lean. Hβ had been sufficiently long in New Zealand to know the worth of the deceased and the good work he had done for the country. Mr. C. M. Luke also paid a tribute to,the memory of Sir George M'Lean. '

Mr. A. Aeher, of Wellington, has received cabled advice that, after many months of -fighting apart, his two sons at last met'on the French front. Pte. J. Asher left with the 3rd Australian Contingent, was wounded at Gallipoli, fought through the S'omme push, and is now in England, where he has undergone an, operation for appendicitis. The other son, Cecil, was sergt.-major of the sth Howitzer Battery; and is now a warrant officer of the Ammunition Column in France. So far he has gone through Samoa, Gallipoli, and the Western front without a scratch, and he cables that ho and his brother had a pleasant reunion.

Mr. Charles William Hendrey has been appointed an inspector of ohartered clubs under the Licensing Act.

At the close of yesterday's eeesion of the New Zealand Society of. Civil Engineers last year's president, Mr. R. W. Holmes, vacated the chair in favour of Mr. Blair Mason, who _ was duly inducted to the office of president for the ensuing year.

Mr. A. E.'Gibbes, of the staff of Messrs. L. and J. W. Blake, who is leaving New Zealand on active service, was presented last evening by his fel-low-workers with a luminous gold wateh as a token of esteem. Mr. Rollinson made the presentation and the recipient suitably replied.