PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 98, 18 January 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

It is notified that the King of Sweden has accepted the resignation of Mr. A. E. Pearce as Swedish Consul at Wellington. Tho Minister of Education (Hon. J. A. Hanan) is in Dunedin attending the University Senate. His Majesty's Trade Commissioner (Mr. K. W. balton), accompanied by Mrs. Dalton, left for tho south yesterday. Mr. Dalton expects to be away about three weeks. Mr. G. Allport, Secretary to tho Marino Department, is accompanying the Government steamer llinemoa on her inspection of the northern lighthouses. He arrived in Auckland 011 Monday. Word was received in Nelson on Wednesday that Captain R. H. Lucas, It.A.M.C., soil of Canon. Lucas of Nelson, has beeen awarded by the King of Italy the medal of the Chevalier da la Carona d'ltalia, for hospital organisation work 011 the Italian front. The Rev. lather J. Goggan, who is well known in many Catholic_ parishes in New Zealand, arrived in Wellington yesterday. He intends going to Australia, where he is to undertake mission work. . Mr. J. O'Shea, City Solicitor, arrived from the south yesterday morning. Mr. Colin It. Robertson has been re. appointed a member of the Jaranaki Land Board. Mr. William Arthur Sutton has been appointed a Crown Lands Ranger for the Nelson district. The appointment of Mr. C. E. Dempsy as deputy of the Official Assignee at Palmerston North is notified in this week's Gazette. Mr. G. T. Haskins, head of the Locomotive Department on the Westland section of railways for the past two years and a half, will retire on superannuation shortly, when he will removu to Christchurcli.

Yesterday the Wellington Education Board announced that the following appoinments had been made: —Eastern Hutt, assistant (war appointment), Mr. E. Evans; Korokoro, headmaster, Mr. 11. J. Foss; Ballance, head teacher, Mrs. M. J. Wilkinson; Mauriceville, head teacher, Mr. W. 13. Black; Martinborough, assistant (war appointment), Mr. J. Casey; To Aro, assistant, Mr. A. A. Kirk; Te Aro, assistant, Miss R. E. Dorrington; Te Aro, assistant, Miss'J. Forsyth; _ Mount Cook Boys', assistant, Miss W. water, solo teacher, Miss C. Murphy; E. 11. Tew; Linkwater, sole teacher, Miss C. Murphy; Kakariki, sole teacher, Miss H. Ross; South Wellington, assistant, Miss L. Feist; South Wellington, assistant, Miss D. V. Bisset; Mangahao, sole teacher, Miss D. G. Taylor; Wliaranui, sole teacher (war appointment), Mr. J. Maloney; Onamalutu, sole teacher, Miss A. I'. Martyn; Clydo Quay, assistant, Miss A. Hilliard; Masterton, assistant, Miss E. G. Wadding.

Advice has been received by the Y.M.C.A. National Headquarters that Mr. R. A. Jvenner, of one of tho New Zealand field secretaries in charge of a Red Triangle hut in France, has been slightly wounded in the head while on service for New Zealand soldiers. Mr. Kenner was a inemjier of the literary staff of the I Auckland "Star" before he was appointed a field secretary. Mr. B. Sutherland, of the Railway Department, left for the south last niglit, owing to the serious illness of his father at luvercargill. News has been received in Wellington that Private Robert A. Gibson, who left with the Twenty-fifth Reinforcements, and saw service in Franco, has been transferred from the New Zealand Army to the Naval Service, and is now an engineer on. one of Ilis Majesty's transports. He was formerly on "the engineering stall' of several of the Union Company's vessels. Mr. Leonard Charles Smart, whose name appeared in the latest list of gazetted defaulting reservists, is a prisoner of war in Germany. He was ;i marine engineer on tho Otaki, which was torpedoed in March last, and since that time has been a prisoner. He has been in fairly regular communication with his relatives in Auckland. Mr. F.. 11. Pope, Auckland, branch manager of the State Fire Insurance Office, is on a brief visit to Wellington. The Very Rev. Father Lynch, Redomptorist Missioner, has arrived in Wellington to preach tho retreat to the Catholic clerg'J of the Wellington archdiocese. Mr. M. Foley, for some years clerk at the Magistrate's Court at Masterton, and formerly of Gore, has been promoted to the clerkship of the Magistrate's Court at Napier. An old colonist, and one-timo wellknown figure in Waikato, Mr. Robert Lowory Bradley, has died in Auckland, at tho ago of 81. Mr. P. Brodic has been elected president of the Auckland Licensed Victuallers' Association, vice Mr. J. Endean, who resigned. Messrs. B. Edwards and J. W. Williams have been elected vice-presidents. HAVE YOU TRIED TO INVENT ANYTHING? Perhaps you liavo an idea thnt is valuablc—tliero are many appliances Hint are urgently needed and maybe von can invent one. Send for invaluable free book, "Advice to Inventors," Henry Hughes (Ltd.), 157 Featherston Street, Wellington.—Advt.