PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 128, 24 February 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James Allen) returned from Napier on Saturday The Hon. A. L. D. Fraser, M.L.C., who is confined to a private hospital in Hastings, is reported to be in a very precarious state of health. At the University Senate on Saturday the Medical Committee reported that a request had been received from Captain Roland Fulton, who was with the Expeditionary Force, that he should continue his'post-graduate course in London. The committee recommended that the request be granted subject to certain conditions.—Press Assn. Mr. John I. Fox, late manager of the Wellington Returned Soldiers Club, leaves by the Maori for the south tonight to'ioin the Marama, which is sailing shortly for England. Dr. Adams, .of Blenheim, is a visitor to Wellington. Mr P. H. Upton, general manager of the South British Insurance Company, will leave Auckland for Vancouver by the Makura next month, en route to England, and will be absent for several months. Mr. Searby Buxton, one of Canterbury's early settlers, died at his private residence, Cavendish Street, AHenton, Ashburton, on Tuesday last. The late Mr Buxton was born in Lincolnshire in 1832 and was within a few days of reaching his 87th birthday. He is survived by a ° family of four sons and three daughters. The Rev. James Paterson, of Wellington, was unable to attend the Presbyterian Assembly at Christchurch owing to indisposition. This is the first time that the reverend gentleman, now in his eighty-ninth year, has been absent from the Assembly for forty years. His condition is not serious. Major-General Sir Alfred Robin, General Officer Commanding the Forces, and Surgeon-General R. S. F. Henderson, C.8., Director-General of Medical Services, are at present on an official visit to tho Nelson and Marlborough districts. They are expected to return to *■ Wellington to-morrow^

Councillor John Taylor, of Tawa Flat, who is leaving the district to reside at Otaki, was entertained at a farewell gathering in the local schoolroom on Saturday night. The building was crowded with residents of the neighbourhood and surrounding districts, and Mr. laylor was made the recipient of a handsome silver tea service as, a memento of the esteem and appreciation which he had won from the residents of Tawa i Flat.