PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 295, 2 September 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. A. M. Myers left for Auckland by Saturday's train. The Hon. J. A. Hanan returned from the south yesterday. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie left for Feilding on Saturday. He will return to Wellington to-morrow. The Hon. G. W. Russell leaves today for Hastings. On Wednesday he is to open tho now hospital at Dannevirke, and he will come back to Wellington' the following day.

Dr. Roberts, who has been lecturer on pathology at the University of Otago since 1885 and professor of that subject since 1909, terminated his long and honourable connection with the teaching staff of that institution last week. His students this year in pathology presented him with a token of their esteem. Dr. Roberts, in acknowledging the good wishes that were conveyed to him from his classes, illustrated the growth of the Medical School by mentioning that in his first year as a lecturer he had one pupil in his class, and that in the second year there was none. This year there are- about 30 students in tho pathology class.

Mr. J. E. MacManus, formerly secretary of the General Labourers' Union, and.not long since returned from active service, has been nominated for the position of organiser of the 'Agricultural and Pastoral Workers' Association of Now Zealand, and is likely to be elected to that office, says the "Otago Daily Times."

, Lieutenant C. F. Atmore, who has been awarded the Military Cross, is a 'son of Mr, Edward Atmore, Napier manager of the Alliance Assurance Company, and a former resident of Wellington, and grandson of the late Captain' J. T. Steele. Lieutenant Atmore left New Zealand as a second lieutenant with the • Eighteenth Reinforcements, and earned his first lieutenancy on tho field. Over a year ago, at: the Messines battle, he was badly wounded and gassed, and he was in England from June, 1917. to March, 1918, during part of which time he was acting as a Stokes gun and trench mortar instructor. Ho then returned to the front, where his actionb have earned a distinction.

Mr. C. A. Innes, who is to enter camp shortly, was entertained at dinner in tho Stafford Tea Rooms, on tho eve of his farewell to'civilian life, by a number of friends in the bowling world. Mr. James Muir, who presided, toasted Mr. Innes's health, and dwelt on tho guest's popularity as~ a bowler. Messrs. R. W. Shallcrass, E. J. Hill, E. H. Fountain, S. Potter, and W. Young (Hataitai) added their tributes. Mr. Innes suitably replied.

A Press Association telegram from Oamaru records the death .of Mr. George A. Travis, clerk to tho Waitaki County Couno.il, aged 42 years; ■ Mr. Travis became ill three weeks ago. His death caused a painful shock in ,the community. Ho was a popular and entbrprising citizen, and had been clerk to tho County Council for about six years. He was previously in the Railway Department, and was wlell known throughout Otago ■ and Southland, and was a prominent member of the, Church of England Men's Society and lay reader. He won the North Otago golf championship in 1914, and was president of tho North Otago Rugby Sub-Union last year. At the time of his death ho was chairman of the Totara School Committee. - Mr. Travis is survived by a widow and three children.

A Press Association telegram from Hawera states that Mrs. J. Ranch, a resident of the district for over thirty years, died suddenly on Saturday morning. .

The, Rev. G. H. Maun,.who is in the third year of his pastorate of tho Gore Metho'dist Church, has accepted a_unanimous invitation to tho Cambridge Terraco Methodist Church, Christchurch. This church is associated with tho former' Christchurh Central Mission, and it is proposed to carry oh the work there on mission lines. Mr. Mann -will vacate his present charge in April, on tho approval of the Methodist Conference.

Considerable interest was centred iii Manners Street yesterday, when numbers of citizens went along to the Grand Opera House to. witness tho hypnotic sleep now in progress; Tho subject has been sleeping 48 hours.

A short silting of the Magistrate's Court was hold on Saturday morning, Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., boing on tho Bench. An elderly man named John M'lutosh was.■fined £2, in default seven days' imprisonment, for having committed a nuisance in a public place.