PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 283, 26 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency, the Governor-General has acceded to the request of the -Ne.y Zealand Clnb to bo patron ot the club again this year.

Admiral Viscount Jellicoe has accepted the invitation of tlio i\w Zealand Club to a luncheon at the Y.JI.C.A. rooms «t 1 o'clock to-day. His Excellency the Governor-General has intimated Ins intention of being: present at the luncheon.

Mr. R. W. Bothamley will be acting cleric of Parliament and acting clerk of the Legislative Council tor the coming session. Mr. A. F. Lowe was appointed tv this position some months ago, hut lie is not to talce up his new position until a fortnight after the end of tho coming session, remaining for this session clerk of the Kotiso of Representatives.

Dr. H. W. Clenvy, lloman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, who has been in :i hospital in Hamilton for some (lays, was reported last wcck-ciul to be slightly improved. Mr. R, W. Douglas, of Wellington, has been appointed secretary of tho Manawatu, Dairy Company.

Jlr. W. S. Jones, who was clerk of the Magistrate's Court at' Marton, lias been transferred to tho Wellington Magistrate's Court, and lias taken up his duties hero as third clerk.

Mr. Garth Gill (Westport) has been appointed to the secretarial positions of tho liavelock .Town Board and the Havelock Harbour Board. Mr. Gill, who is .a discharged soldier, is a son of Major J. S. Gill (Westport).

Mr. E. C. Fletcher, of New Plymouth, who recently returned from active service,- is to be manager of the branch of tho National Bank of New Zealand at Hawera.

Mi\ F. W; Millar has been appointed permanent secretary of tho Public Service Association, and is resigning from his position in the Public Service so as to enter npon his duties next month.

Mr. J. Kennedy Brown, who died on Wednesday at the residence-of his daughter, Mrs. A. C. O'Neill, 'Mamma, at the age of 88, came to New Zealand from ■\ustralitt in 1876. He was a native of Dunoon, Scotland, and left Home for Australia as a young man of 20.. He settled at Becchworth, Victoria, and for some' years was Mayor of that town. Ho was connected with the Australian Mutual Provident Company in Auckland until four or five years ago, _when falling health necessitated his retirement.

Major K. L. Caldwell, M.C., D.S.C. and bar, and Belgian Croix de Guerre, who recently returned from active service, is a son of Mr. D. U. Caldwell, of Auckland and formerly of Wellington. Major Caldwell, who is at present stayin" with Mr. J. D. Ritchie on Wellington Terrace, graduated for flying at the Auckland School of Aviation, and at tho beginning of 1916 wont Home and joined the Royal Flying Corps. In July of that year he went to France, where ho did service in the air until October. 11)17. After a brief furlough lie returned and served in a similar capacity until' two months after the signing of tho armistice. ;

\ Press Association telegram from Auckland states that Major Thomas Broun, F.E.S., formerly Government Entomologist, died on Sunday, aged 81. H(, was an old Imperial veteran, receiving his first commission at the age of It!, during the Crimean War. "\Mien that ended, he proceeded to Burmah in 1856, and afterwards served with his regiment, H.M. 35th Royal Sussex, in Bengal, throughout the' trying period of the Indian Mutiny. The late Major Broun took part in the Maori War in Waikato with the Ist Waikaio Regiment,.and oil the East Coast, from September, 1863, till its conclusion. He devoted most of his time later to tho study of New Zealan.. insects, tho beetles more particularly. He was the author of the work on "New Zealand Coleoptern," which ran into several volumes. In recognition of his original research work, he was elected an honorary member of European scientific societies and Australian naturalists' club*. He was a nativo of Edinburgh.