PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 280, 22 August 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association cablegram from London states that Captain Leonard A. B. Donaldson, who .commanded 11.M.5. New Zealand when the armistice was signed, has taken over the command of 11.M.5. Temeraire.

Mr. A. V. Shoi'tur, the newly-appointed resident superintendent of the Atlas Assurance Company, is among the passengers to arrive from Sydney by the Essex, which will berth this morning.

Mr. J. J. Clark, of Dunedin, is gazetted a member, of the National War Funds Council, in succession to Mr. .Tolin Roberts, who has resigned, and Mr, H. Holland, of Christcluirch is gazettcd nil additional member of the council.

Private Donald 11. Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scott, of Roxburgh Street, who is a member of the City Engineer's staff, returned to Wellington from England yesterday afternoon with the Mamari's draft. Private Scott left Wellington with the Thirty-eighth Reinforcements.

Mr. Leon Cohen, for many years a chemist in Wellington, and well" known in musical circles, is now a dairy farmer on the Taieri Plain, some eighteen miles from Dunedin.

It is notified in the Gazette that Mr, W. F. C. Whiteman has been appointed censor of telegraphic messages in" respect of the telegraph station at Awanui.

Mr. C. 11. G. Carpenter has been appointed a member cf the ICarioi Domain Board, in place of the late Mr. William Strachan.

Mr. J., I'. M'Mahon-Box is gazetted Chief Officer of Police at Nine Island, as from July 13 last.

At u meeting of the Wellington Patriotic Band, held last evening, their secretary, Mr. W. Lang, was presented with a silver tea set on tho occasion of his marriage and departure from Wellington.