PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3014, 27 February 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. Sir James Allen is going to Taranaki to-morrow, and then on to Auckland, visiting several towns i\i both districts on public business. Hβ will also present some military decorations.

Mr. T. Moss, a dairy fanner of Eketahuna, president of the Wellington branch of tho New Zealand Farmers' Union, and a raoraber of tho Education Board, has been appointed the fifth member of the Industrial Efficiency Board.

The death is announced, in Sydney, of Mr. \V. A. Gihfc Sjdnoy manager for the National Insurance Company of New. Zealand, after forty years' service. Mr. Gibb joined the company at ills inception, and 'wmdoreS splendid Rorvice.during his successful term. Ho leaves 'a son,"Mr. Chillies Gibb, of the Sydney office, while his brother, Mr. G. P. Gibb, resides at Kolburn, Wellington. Deceased was u cousin of the late Son. J, Dutliie, M.L.O.

The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) has received lettors from Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain J. K. Davis, expressing on their own behalf and on behalf of their officers *nd! men keen appreciation of t,ho hospitality recently accorded them by tho Mayor, council, and citizens of Wellington.

Tho llpv. B. H. V. M'Combie, vicar of Granity, has enlisted for service in the Now Zealand Expeditionary Force with tho Bishop of Nelson's consent.

Before severing his connection, with tho Post and Telegraph Department yesterday, Mr. J. L. H. Ledger, Controllor of Money Orders and Savings Banks, was mot by tho officers of the Department, and' on their behalf was presented by Mr. W. R. Morris (Secretary) with mementoes of esteem earned during his forty years of service, almost exclusively with tho head office staff. Mr. Hugeins lias now assumed the dual office of Controller and Chief Accountant.

Mr. L. Muir, proprietor and editor of the "Poverty Bay Herald," is in Wellington, attending tho Newspaper Proprietors' Conference. Mr. J. A'. Mnckay, editor of the "Gieborno Times," is also a. visitor to Wellington.

Mr. Thomas Barclay Bell, manager of tho business of the Atlas Assurance Co., Ltd., in Australia and New Zealand, died suddenly at Melbourne recently. He was appointed-manager of tho Atlas Company in 1890, when that office first established branches in Australasia. Hβ was born in Scotland in 1854.

Miss May TJre, of Dmiedin, lias been appointed to the titaff of tho six school nurses which has been organised by the Education Department as an extension of the system of medical inspection for tile schools of tho Dominion. Tho live other appointments havo already been announced.

Mrs. Charlotte Bair King, who early in January celebrated her 101 st birthday, died at Waiuku yesterday (says a Press Association .telegram from Auckland). She arrived in. tho colony in 1840, before the arrival of Captain Hobson. Her late husband arrived in 1814, when sixteen months old, his father having been a member of Samuel Marsden's party.