PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 219, 10 June 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. D. S. Map Donald h.i 6 returned from his visit to tho South Island.. The Hon. G. W. Russell left by tho Main Trunk train for the north yesterday. ' . Tho Hon. A. M. Myers left yesterday for Auckland, where he will remain until the end of the week. Mr. Harold Beauchamp,. chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, intends to leave for England next week per the Arawa. The Eev. A. W. H. Compton, M.A., Vicar of Greytown, hns been npnointed senior Anglican chaplain of tho Wellington military district. He served in tho South African War. Tho death occurred yesterday of Mr. C. E. Hickey, for many years ono of the best-known cricketers in Wellington. Tho lato Mr. Hickey, who was only 30 years of age, was a remarkably successful slow bowler, and was one tho mainstays of the Phoenix Club in t.ho last years of club cricket. He also played under the district scheme., Ho represented tho province in numerous interprovincial games. Mr. Hickey was tho elder son of ono of Wellington's pioneer journalists, the late M. C. Hickey, and was identified with several local commercial concerns. Tho deceased, whoso wife predeceased him by ten yoars, leaves ono daughter, aged 10 years. Tho Eev. W. A. Sinclair, formerly of Christchurch, has been appointed secretary for Foreign Missions by the New Zealand Methodist Church. American papers chronicle the death at Falls City, Nebraska, of Miss Rose Dumpier, daughter of the late_ distinguished actor Mr. Alfred Dampier. .Yesterday' 6 meeting of tho council of tiio Wellington Central Chamber ofCommerco congratulated Mr. F. Castle (n member) upon his election to tho chairmanship of the Hospital and Charitnblo Aid Board. Tho Rev. P. C. Wyudham Earee, Hector of Britnslield, lias been appointed to the Rectory of S.vde, in Gloucester-' fihire, England. Mr. Earee was vicar of Palmerston from 1896-07, and of Masterton from the latter year to 1005, when he returned to England, and becarno curate at Davontry. Two years later he was nppointed rector of Angersleigh, Taunton. Mr. Thomas Anton, A.1.A., N.Z., who i* at present a warrant ollU'er attached to N.Z.E.F. Headquarters, f,ondon, has been admitted n member of the Chartered Institute, of Secretaries of Great Britain. Previous to his enlistment for active sorvico in 1015 ho was secretary of I lie Wellington Accountant Students' Society. Tho Vor.v" Row Chancellor 11. Holbrook, pastor of Grey Lynn (Auclclai)d diocese), has been decorated by the I'opo with th" prow Pro Eeclesia et Papa, as a. reward for zeal anil ability. Mr. T. Forsyth, chairman of the Wellington Education Board, has been elected to represent tho governing bodies of secondary schools on the Victoria Collego Council.