PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 3, 28 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Justico Stringer has returned to Wellington from his visit to Nelson.

ColonofChaft'ey returned to Wellington last ovening by tho Pateena from Nelson and Pictou.

Mr. H. J. B. Morris has been appointed Resident Agent and Postmaster at Piikapuka (Cook Islands), and to bo a Commissioner and Deputy-Registrar of the High Court of the Cook Islands-

Mr. Robert 'l'riggs, who has been appointed Public Trustee, will fitill_retain his position as Controller of tho Department of Imperial Supplies.

Captain Robert Simpson, of tho 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal (with twenty years fifty-six days' servieo).

Mr. J. S. Wilson, a Christchurch member of the National Committee, of the Y.M.C.A., is at_ present on a brief business visit to Wellington.

Messrs. C. B. Daniel and Alexander B»rr have been appointed inspectors of seamen, under the Shipping and Seamen's Act, for tho ports of .Auckland anil Wellington respectively.

"Mr. W. S. Curtis, who has been appointed censor o£ telegraphic messages in' respect of. telegraph stations at or near to Wellington, will havo as his assistant Mr. Grordon Richmond.

After a long period ofservico as infant mistress at the Tnrraco School, Hiss If. Williams has been compelled to resign on account of ill-health. At Ihe school yesterday Mio was presented with a gold bracelot watch, the gift of pupils, teachers, and members of the committee. Mr. Thompson, chairman of the committee, and Mr. Macmorran, headmaster, spoke iu warm terms of Miss Williams s long and faithful services, and expressed deep regret that ill-health had compelled her to resign. Tho teaching staff entertained Miss Williams and the committee at afternoon tea. '

Miss Dorothy Ellis has been appointed instructress in Home Science under the Wellington Education Board. Miss Ellis holds the diploma in Homo Science in Ot-ago University, and has had several years' experience in teaching.

Private advice has been receivel in Auckland that Private E. 11. Pierce, youngest son of the lato Mr. G. P. Pierce, of Auckland, died of wounds received on September 9. Private Pierce, who left New Zealand with tho Seventeenth Reinforcements, was a nativo of Auckland, and was educated at St. John's College. Por some years prior to enlisting he was manager of a sheep station in Hiuvkc's Bay. Ho was thirty-four years of age.

Mr. J. I/. Palcthorpo has been appointnil Registrar of Electors for the electoral district of Auckland AVest.

Tho Board of Education lias appointed Mi*. At. 11. Dixon, now headmaster of tho Gladstone School, to be Assistant Instructor of Agriculture. Mr. Dixon has had l>oth English and New Zealand experience.

Mrs. E. Powell has received cable advice that her youngest sou, William Harold Powell, has arrived. safely in England, and has again enlisted. W. H. Powell will bo remembered in certain circles as appealing against his inclusion in a ballot, as ho was a wounded and discharged Imperial soldier. Mr. Powell held an English passport, and (after complying with tho Appeal Board's instructions) went to Australia, and v.hen stronger, continued his journey to England. Mrs. Powell's eldest son, Chap-lain-Major Powell, of tho Nineteenth Reinforcement's, has recovered from } is illness while at the front, and is on duty again. Second Lieutenant Victor L. Powell, who was -wounded jit the beginning of June, has had to rctnrn to hospital for operations, whicb unfortunately have not yet boon successful.