PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 141, 10 March 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke), who has been touring the South Island with ihe Parliamentary Committee which is raking evidence on the state of tne Donnaion's industries, is due back in .sellington to-morrow moraiDg. i Press Association cablegram from Now York states that Major-General Sir F. B. Maurice (formerly Director of Military Operations, Imperial General Staff, and lately military contributor to the London "Daily Chronicle and the London "Daily News") will make a lecture tour of America. He will leave England on Saturday. Mr. F. J. W. Fear, pf this city, has been notified by the Defence Department that his son, Corporal Claude Fear, of the Engineers, is returning by the Hororata, due on March 15. Corporal Fear was one of the men called to man the forts at the outbreak of war when it was known German raiders were in these 6eas. When the raiders were captured he was grated extended leave. He then enlisted, loaving with the Eighth Reinforcements for Egypt, when he was attached to the Main Body men, with his brother, Corporal Bert Fear, who was awarded the D.C.M. at Gallipoli. From Egypt they went to France, where in the trenches near Flers, his brother was killed at his side. Corporal Fear saw much lighting, but escaped, without a scratch, a few days he was in hospital with influenza in November. Ho lias seen continuous service and was .again in t j lo front line when the armistice was declared. X Press Association cablegr&m from Sydnoy records the death of Alderman English, Lord Mayor of Sydney. He had been in ill-health for a long time. Mr. Harry Rands, M.A., arrived by the Moeraki from Sydney on Friday and went south to take his former position as science master at Wavtaki College. Mr. Rands has been over two years in England doing munition work. He is a brother of the late Rev. F. Rands, chaplain to the Forces, who succumbed to influenza on the Rhine some days ago. The members of the Arbitration Court leave to-day for Blenheim and .Nelson, and will return to Wellington in time to resume sittings here on March 1/. Mr. T. W. Brebner, district traffic manager at Invercargill, will retire from the Railway Department on supernnnua. tion at the end of this month, after 45 years' service. Mr. Brebner, who was bort at Port Chalmers, joined the Railway Service there in 1873 as shipping clerk. Of his 45 years m the service he spent 20 in Invercargill. Mr. W. B. Buckhurst, Crown Lands Ranger for Canterbury, will retire at the end of the present month on superannuation. Mr. Buckhurst came to New Zealand from England 50 years ago, and was associated at one time with the timber industry north of Auckland. Later he was attached to the Valuation Department at Auckland, and from 1893 to 1896 was Clerk of Committee to the House of Representatives. Consequent upon the reopening of the theatres in Australia, Mr. George Matheson, manager of the Figman Comedy Companv, will leave for Sydney to-mor-row. Mr. John Farrell will take up the managerial duties in succession to Mr. Math&on. Mr. Cecil Meadowcroft, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Msadowcroft, of Mount Street, hna left for Dunedin University to carry on medical studies. The death is reported of Sergeant-Major Charles Slattery, of Wellington, who succumbed in London to an attack of inkuenza. Sergeant-Major Slattery, who was a woll-known member of the Permanent Artillery, left Now Zealand with the Thirty-seventh Reinforcements. A few years ago he was a prominent member of the Poneke Football Club. | The Canterbury Education Board has decided to recommend to the Minister of Education the nppointment of Mr. J. E. Purchase, M.A., as principal of the Christohuirch Training College, m succession to the late Mr. T. S. Fostcr.-Press Assn.