PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 197, 15 May 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. D. H. Guthrie, Minister of Lands, is going to Dannevirke and Takapau on Monday, and in company with Mr. G. Hunter, M.P., he intends to inspect a number of soldier settlement* in the district. He is to meet deputationf* in Dannevirke from local bodies on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday he will inspect some land offered to the Government for settlement by discharged soldiers. Ho will return to Wellington on Wednesday, in time to meet a deputation tho following morning from butter producers in the Mauawatu district. Brigadier-General H. Vl, Hart, (.'.M.G., D.5.0., arrived in Wellington from Carterton yesterday in order to attend the reception to Sir Andrew Russell. Sir Robert Stout has been reappointed a Government nominee on the Victoria Collego Council. Sir Edward Gibbes, formerly Secretary of the Education Department, has been appointed Government nominee on the Board of Governors of the AVellington Colleges. Mr. ,T. R. Hushes, civil engineer, who formerly resided in Wellington, has returned from Scotland by the Remueva. During the fivo years of his absence from New Zealand he filled the post of assistant city engineer in Dunfermline. Mrs. HugliQs (nee Miss Ethel Bull) came back to Wellington with her husband. Major A. SI. Samuel, who contested the Hutt seat at the last general election, will be a candidate., for the. Rotorua. electorate at the approaching elections, states the "New Zealand Herald.'" A Press Association telegram states that Mr. Frederick Hobbs, Town Clerk at Westport, has received notice of his appointment to the position of Town Clerk at Lyttelton. Mr. Hobbs, bpsidos fulfilling his municipal duties, has acted as secretary to a largo number of public and semi-public functions. Dr. Kidd, of, Christchurch, has been appointed resident surgeon at the Ashburton County Hospital. Dr. Kidd, who is 32 years of ago, took his medical degrees at Dunedin in 1915, and was then appointed house-surgeon at.the Christclnu'ch Hospital. Later ho went mi active service. He was wounded in the right arm at Messines. For the past thirteen months lie has been assistant to Ilia Assistant-Director of Medical Services in Christchurch. Lieutenant David Hunter Blair, a grandson of the late Mi\ K. H. Rhodes, of Elmwood, Christchurch, was amongst the British prisoners recently repatriated from Germany. Lieutenant Blair was captured early in the war, and during his long imprisonment he studied German and Russian with such effect Hint he was able to pass examinations in both languages on his return to England. He has now been appointed a major attached to the Intelligence Department. Captain P. V. Storkey, V.C., of Napier, has been appointed associate to Mr. Justice Sanger Owen, of Svdney, New South Wales. Mr. D. A. Aitken, general manager of the Union Steam shipping Company, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning from the south.' Tho Rev. S. Morris, who has been doing home mission work for the Baptist Church in Otago, will bo a passenger by the Taimii, leaving Wellington for London to-day. After four years and a half of active service Lieutenant F. Ensom, of Hunterville, arrived in Wellington by the Northumberland. Lieutenant Ensora has had exceptional luck, having gone right through from the historic lauding at Gallipoli, receiving only a slight wound, which took him out of the line for a few weeks after tho Battle of Messines. He left for the north by yesterday' 6 express.