PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 97, 18 January 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The. Hon. D. H. Guthrie, .Minister, of'Lands','has.'gone to Dargaville to he present at the opening of an addition to Kauri Park in that district.

Mr. P. M'Leaii, of the staff, of. the National Bank of New Zealand, has. been appointed to a position on the' staff of the Napier branch of the bank, and leaves'oil Monday to .tako up his new duties. ■• . ■ .. ■

Dr. G. E. Dcamcr, whose death was reported a few days ago was for many years a resident of Featherston, Deceased was the eldest son of the late Dr. William Deamer, of Christchurch,' and received his medical training, in 'London and Edinburgh] and oii return.iiijjto New Zealand carried pn practice for thirteen years in Christchurch, afterwards removing to Featlierston, where he resided from 1902 till 1009, when he went to Island.liav. Wellington Failing health ..compelled him to cease work, and after a few years' stay in Sydney he- retired to Auckland in the early part of 191S'. He is survived by a widow (who'is a daughter'of the late Colonel Reader, of Wellington) and two daughters, Mrs.'" Albert Goldie, how in America. arid Dorothea Dehiiipr.. who is Sister Mary Arine of Our Lady : of "the Sacred Hcartj Kensington] , Sydney? . ' ' r ""■' : ' ; ' :

Mr. W. H. Green, of Seatoun, has received information from the Defence Department that bis . second son, Trooper G. R. Green, who was returning' in draft .208, was taken to .the hospital on January 12 at Fremaiitle, suffering from • simple pneumonia: Trooper Green has been in Egypt and Palestine for three and a half vears.

. .The ttev. S. liohertspn prr,.has returned, to AVellington from the' south.

Major Farr, who -commanded • the 13th Battery, N.Z.F.A., on the Western' front, left for .the south Jast night/ • •''.

■The influenza pandemic recalls the •fact that 27 years ago the disease was rasing at its height in' Britain, and among the victims on January 14, 189! i, was the elder brother of the present King, the Duke of Clarence, who died from 'double pneunionia following, influenza, at the age of twenty-eight years. . ■

Mr. Ernest C. Duncan, of die Wellington branch-of the New Zealand Insurance.'Company; has' received advice of his transfer to the company's' Cnl-j cutta; branch, and leaves by the Uliiriaroa to-dav." ' ■• :":■■■'

Mr. A. L. who has occupied the position of accountant on the staff of the Bank of New Zealand,-Ashbur-ton, fur about five years, has received notice, of his transfer on promotion to tlm position of actilig-inanager at Newtow n, Wellington. He.will take up his new duties towards the end of -the l>rc: sent month. - ■

; Messrs. T. A. H. ; Kield, J. M. Dickf son. and C. -E. Statham, members-of I'nyliament, are at present, ii l: Wellington. ■ .....

A Press -'Association'-telegram from Duncdin says that (.leneral Pan is improving in health, "aiiil' will rest there till Monday, when ho le.ives for 'Wellington and Auckland.. In view of his strenuous toiliy the doctors advise hull to take thinys quietly,, and probably he will not appear personally at ofiicia'l functions for some days. .

The announcement is made. ..(hat under Admiralty instructions ail 'passenger .steamers from Australasia for England have to proceed homeward via riumbay in order lo embark troops from Indin.and Aleso])ut:nnisi. As a result of this order t,he accommodation for .-.passengers by vessels to • leave.. New ■ Zealand for lloinc have bownie -greatly■ restricted, and inniiy bookings already niiido v.-ill have.+o be cancelled..-