PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 145, 8 March 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

It is reported that Mr. M. C. Corliss, late Superintendent for the Post and Telegraph Department at Wangaiiui, is seriously indisposed, and his condition is giving his friends great concern.

Mr. Michael Hoffman, an old resident of Masterton, died on Wednes-day-evening at the age of 93 years.

Mr. W. N. Dempsey, headmaster of the Eketahuna District High "School, was entertained by tho people of Bkotahuna prior to leaving for tho Lower Hutt, whence he has been transferred.

Mr. W. A. Flavell, general manager of the Westport Coo-1 Company, arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday morning.

Mr. George Girling-Butcher has rosigned his position as secretary and organiser of the New Zealand Catholic Federation, with which he has teen officially connected since its inception. Hu was chairman of the Provisional Committee which was set up as the outcome of a public meeting held in 1912, and, when the federation was fully constituted in 1913 ho was elected president of the Wellington Diocesan Council and the Dominion Council. In September of that year he accepted the position of secretary and organiser, and in that capacity travelled the archdiocese of Wellington and the diocoses of Auckland, Christchur'ch, and Dunedin, giving addresses in practically every Catholic parish from Auckland to the Bluff. Mr. Girling-Butcher's icsignation, which takes, effect as from May 31, is dictated by personal reabone. ■