PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 137, 27 February 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, left for Auckland yesterday. Ho will be absent from Wellington for about a week..

Cable advice has been received by Base Records Office stating that the Military Cross has been awarded to John Inglis Chrystall, a New Zealauder, who is serving with the Imperial Forces. As this officer is not a member of the N.Z.E.F., his next-of-kin is unknown at Base Records.

At the annual conference of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association of New Zealand,, it was.-resolvcd:—"That the members'-el'this associatwn hi annual meeting assembled desire to place on record their dcppest'.sympatny with the relatives of the late. Private John George List, works manager of the "Taraiiaki Daily News,'.' -who recently died in France': is a result of wounds received in action.

Mr. J. Caradus, who has been on the staff of the Bank of New South Wales in Nelson.for the past four years, has been transferred to the inspector's staff, Wellington. Prior to taking up his appointment, Mr. Caradus willreik'.Yf the manager of the bank at Waverley. .

Mr! Albert A. Spencer, president of Lhe Auckland Employers'' Association, is a visitor to Wellington.

Mr. T. R. Tripe, manager for the Union Steam Ship Company at Launcestun, has arrived in New Zealand

Mr. It. E. Bannister, who is now settled permanently in Australia, is at piesent on u visit to Wellington, and expects io spend about two months in Now Zealand.

Mr. G. S. D. Macaul has arrived in Wellington to make advance arrangements for a tour of New Zealand by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The tour will commence in Duncdin next month.