PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 208, 22 May 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Acting-Prime Minister has received a message trom the El. Hon. W. F. Massed announcing "All Snfe." Chaplain P. J- Minogue, ot Pahnerston North, has been transferred from No. 1 N.Z. General Hospital in England to the Ist N.Z. Infantry Brigade. Captain Minogiio left for duty on a hospital ship seven months ago, and transferred from the vessel when in England. M. Chayet, Consul-General for Prance in Australasia since 1911, has received orders to take charge- of the French Legation in Guatemala. A private cablegram received in Sydney states that Lieutenant-Commander tJyran F. Adams, R.N., eon of Sir. G. H. Adams, of G. H. Adams and Co., Sydney, was one of the officers of tho Vindictive in the Zcebruggo raid, and that he was unhurt. A Press Association message from Hast ings states that the condition of Mr. E. B. Langworthy, of the Hutt, Wellington (who represents the Lister Shearing Machine Company),- ae the result of injuries sustained through a motor-cycle and sidecar colliding with a trap near Fernhill on Monday night, is serious, nnd causing grave anxiety, i Mr. C. Stubbs, who was driving the motor-cycle, is not seriously injured. * Mr. and Mr?. George Shand, of Napier, and formerly of Wellington, arrived in Wellington from Napier yesterday. Mr. A. K. Dyson, chiof clerk to the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company, who is going into camp to-day with tho Forty-second Reinforcement draft, was yesterday presented with a purse of sovereigns from tho deck officers and engineers and the company. The presentation took placo on board the Nikau <it Wellington, and was made by Captain Hay, master of the Nikau, who referred to the high esteem in which Mr. Dyson was held by the officials and employees of the Anchor firm. Mr. Dyson has been chief clerk at the head office at Nelson for'the past 12 years.

On the eve of hie departure for camp, Mr Dourias Bray, principal of the firm of Messrs. Bray Bros., was >yesterdav presented by the members of the staff with a wristlet watch ns a mark of appreciation and the esteem in which ho is held by all those associated with him. The Bcv. George Heighway, of Great King Street Congregational Church, Dunedin, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Congregational Church at Palmerston North. The, Key. Heighway has been pastor at Great Kui ? Street Church for 21 years. The Rev. Sidney J Baker, who was the first pastor at the Palmer6ton Congregational Church for a term of seven years, has volunteered to nil we nap between the retirement of the present minister (the Eev. Macdonald Aspland) and the settlement of_the Key. Mr. Heighway. After leaving Palmer* on North the Rev. Mr. Baker took over the charge of the Congregational Church at Launceston (Tasmania). .Latterly he has been doing supply work in Australia. Mr. A. St. George Eyder has been appointed secretary and London manager ot the National Mortgage atid Agency Company, in place of the late Mr. J.ANewman Mr. Eyder was bom in New MaXand had 3 several years' busmen experience in this country, as well as in London, and also in America. Driver Ebb Millington N.Z.F.A.. who returned with a recent draft of sick and wounded men, is now an inmate of tho Victoria Hospital, Newtown. Mr C C Larmour, managing director of the Colonial Motor Company, Ltd.. is visiting America. He is accompanied Jjy Mrs. Larinour. Mr. Charles Haines, of Molesworth Street, has received cabled advice that his oldest son, Private Charles I , ..Haine , who left with the Twenty-Sixth Kernforcements; and was wounded in the right side en April S, was transferred to the Hornchurch Convalescent Hospital on May 9.

The death occurred in Wellington on Monday of Mr. William Kerr, for over 31) yonvs in the service of the Bank of New Zealand. The late Mr. Kerr, who was 59 years of age, was the son of the late Mr. John Kerr, o£ Christchurch. Ho was in charge o£ the Takaka Branch of the bank for some time, and was tnen transferred to the headquarters stall in Wellington, eventually retiring on superannuation, i At the swimming carnival at the Tepid Baths lost ovoning a presentation was made to Mr. 1?. Boss, toectoi: of the Boys' Institute, who anSwew the rollcall for camp to-day. Mr. G. A. Troup, the present of the institute, referred to tho three or four years service ren- ! feted by Mr. Ross, which had beenmo. I ductive of much good. The membership had grown from 300 to between 600 and 700, and 'the revenue had increased from So pec annum to X2OOO. He then handed M?. Boss a poeketbook containing a roll of banknotes. On behalf of Mr. Hislop, of Stewart Daweon and to., Mr. Troup presented Mr. Ross with a silver challenge cup, which it »!**!*s<*■ »£• Unm will nresent to tho institute. Jut. lZ hi hfs reply appealed to I the toe to give tho new director their hearty support, as without that he would be I greatly handicapped.