PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 233, 26 June 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. M'Lean, C.8.E., who left with the Main Body, returned to Wellington yesterday. Previous to sailiiiK for New Zealand Colonel M'Leau was acting.as a D.11.5. in Germany after the demobilisation of the Fourth. Fu'ld Ambulance. '

Mr. W. Dunn, secretary to the Pnblic School Teachers' Superannuation Board, has been promoted to the position of accountant to tho Education Department.

Mr. D. E, Leslie, who has been first assistant at the Mastcrton District High School for the,past seven years, and who is also director of the Masterton Technical School, has been appointed headmaster of the Wellington Terrace School, •in succession to Mr. G. MacMorra-n. Mr. Leslie has previously served under tliuHawke's Bay and Marlborbugh Education Boards.

Mr. Harold Beetham (Wairarapa), who left with one of the reinforcements some tune ago, has received his discharge in England, aud was expecting to leave on hie return to New Zeatand on June 20, travelling via Canada.

A Pi'ess Association message from Hamilton states that Senior-Sergeant J. J. Cassells, who, lias been transferred to Whangaiei, where he.will have charge of the '.police district • there, was publicly fareii'elled by the magistrate, justices of the peace, the Returned' Soldiers' Association, and the general public yesterday morning. Highly eulogistic, references' were made as to his services and sincere regret was expressed at his departure..

Amongst those exiled in Sydney by the suspension of the steamer services.is Mr. E. A. lktt, of tho staff of Messrs. SarKood, Son, and Even, Mrs. Wolfgang, wife of Mr. Frank Wolfgang, ofliessrs. Begg and Co.'s staff, is also held up in .Sydney. ' >'

Mr. Noel Barraud, the well-known New Zealand artist, and ii life-member of tho New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, who has been residing for some time past in England, recently had a picture accepted bv tho Royal Institution of Painters in Water Colours, England, and hung at its exhibition. . ■ .

Mr. C. T. Aschman, headmaster of the Normal School,' he's been elected by the Canterbury and Westland representatives of the Teachers , 'lnstilute as theCaiitei , - hury representative of the Grading ■Board. ' ■

Mr. E. W. Shanahnn, formerly of Auckland, has recently presented his thesis in the London University in Economic Geography and Agricultural .Economies. This has been accepted by the Senate as qualifying him. for the D.Sc. Economics. The thesis, which is to be' published in London shortly, is to bo entitled "The Production and Consumption of Animal Foodstuffs, with a Special Deference to the British. Empire."

Among the deaths from pneumonic influenza in Sydney recently was that of the Itov.H. M. A. Pearce, incumbent of St. Bede's, Drummoyne, Sydney. 'I'lie deceased clergyman was 39 years of age:

Mr. Urnest Drake, the Auckland tenor, who is to sing in the Choral Union's performance of "11 Trovatore" next jveek, arrived from the north by yesterday's express. •