PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3053, 14 April 1917, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

- The Hon, !W- Fraser, Minister ofi :Public; Works, left for Dunedin last' night. • He-. intends to visit town, and Central Otago oa Public Works business. At a ineetinK of the Board of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand, held yesterday, Mr. Harold Beauohamp was re-elected Chairman; of Directors for the-current financial year. ."■ 'Mr! F. J. Chisholm, phief mail olerk at Auckland if of the past seven years, liaving been promoted to the positionof. assistant postmaster at Wellington, : was . on. Wednesday • presented by - his comrades with, a purse of sovereigns. .The. Ohief Postmaster, Mr. J. 0. William son, made the presentation on behalf of the.staff.. -..;\- There'are -four- candidates for the Mayoralty'of -Tima'ru.vThe present Mayor, Mr! E';:JL Gjiiness, is not landing.—Press Association., .-' Yesterday Mr. Justice Chapman admitted Mr. J. A. : Thompson,'' LL.B. (formerly clerk of the Magistrate s Court at.- Ohristchuroh) as a barrister arid solicitor of the Supreme Court. ' Lieut. Jack' Dunnett, of Invercar--jjill, who left with the Main Body as a member of the N.Z.F.A., .and went through the Gallipoli campaign from landing to evacuation, was promoted to the rank of captain on January 25. The'promotion took place, on one of the French battlefields. ■.... V Among the recent visitors to Wellington were Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Shaw, of Innisfail, North Queensland; 'J. H. Payih, Innisfail, North Queensland; 0. and M. Edwards, and J: and E. Eowe, Melbourne; F. Fowler, Ceylon ; G. Katohe, Japan; Van A. Wallace, Palo Alto,.California; F. Couper, West Australia ; and ,S. G. Held, New South Wales. .. Mr.' E. H. Nicholas, until recently organist: at .Pitt Street - Methodist . Church,-Auckland, has so much improv:ed in hpalth that he has been; able to accept the positioniof ~ organist and •'choirmaster at-Wesley Church, Melbourne.'' "".■'---"•" ■ The Rev! W. L. Salter,'who has just resigned-the" pastorate of the Mount ''Albert Baptist Church,' Auckland, has accepted, a 'call to temporarily supply St Timaru, during'tho absence of Pas:'tor";M.';W.. P.' Lascelles, 'who, in companv with'his son, is going to France -on'Y;M;p.A.:work. -;\ • ■ s . . .-v-Mr.'S. J. Wills',' who has'been secfet'arv of the Wellington War Relief Association since its formation, has resigned to become secretary of tie newly-constituted Soldiers' Financial Assistance Board. His place has been .filled by Mr. A. 0. Leach, fof the accountants' branch of the Public Works Department. Mr.! Leach'was educated at Westminster. London, went to South 'Africa before/-the war broke out there, . latnr joined the Cape Mounted Rifles, and went through the campaign (in which he was wounded). Mr. Leach, has been in New Zealand for the cast ■ seven years, the greater part of -which time he'lms spent in the Government Service. He expects' to take up his new duties towards the end of the month. ' ' Mr. L. L. Collver, representing an 'American. Tourist/Agency, arrived here, last evening -with! a Rmall party of 'American' tourists, who are visiting New Zealand and propose' visiting Aus.tralia. . '". '.' ;," '■•.'- -. -.-.- Mr. Eliot Warhurtbn ~has received, cable advice to the effect that his son, Lieut. Darien Warburton, of the 48th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, has heeh reported missing. Lieut. War- . burton, left New Zealand at. the outset of the' war with the Auckland Mounted Brigade of the Main ; Body. /He; wasiirivalide'd'from--'.Gallipoli.- and }';afterwafds ,r ]oin«d''th'o ; Rbyal Flving ';;C(orp.s? ; '''rh'e~message : state's'-that there"' '/is; a-"possibility ''that Lieut."Warburton" has I'hePu taken'pVisbnor. '■- His brother was killed on ! Gallipoli- ''