PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 285, 28 August 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain (temporary Major) D. W. Talbot, Unattached List (b), has relinquished the appointment of. president, courtsmartial, and courts of inquiry, Now Zealand Expeditionary Forco training camps, and lias been demobilised. Tll.o Kev. J. 11. Burgin ha 6 been.' appointed vicar of St. Peter's Church; OneIvunga, .in place of Canon J. Haseldon, m : lk> has resigned after twenty-one years' service. Mr. Bnrgin will take up his duties in November or December, lie has been on war service, having left New Zealand as chaplain to the Rifle Brigade. Ho returned to Now Zealand in May, 1.917, and has since been acting as chaplain to returned soldievs. For' nearly four years, prior to going on service, Mr. Burgin was vicar of St. Stephen's Church, Ashburton. _ Mr. G. Frost (chairman of the Wellington Technical Education Board) and Mr. John S. Swan (one of the two architects concerned in the preparation of working plans of the now Technical College) will leave for Christchurch on Friday evening for the purpose of consulting Mr. J. H. Howell (the new director) on the plans of the proposed building. Second-Lieutenants L. A. Whitaker and A. N. Jones, Wellington Garrison Artillery, and Second-Lieutenant (temporary) F. H. Wilkie, No. 4 Company (Wellington), N.Z.A.S.C., have resigned their commissions. Mr. Robert W_. M'Neil, of New York, arrived in Wellington yesterday. Mr. M'Neil is making a special business trip through New Zealand. Captain F. W. Vossoler, of the Wellington Garrison Artillery Division, has been transferred to the Reserve of Officers. The esteem in which the lato Lieutenant Robert Tolei'-Curtis was hold was evinced by tho large number of friends who followed his remains to their last resting-place. Prominent among whom were several members of the Veterans' Association, including the president, Mr. Tiugey, Captain Fox, and the secretary, Mr. Davidson. Deceased was buried with full military honours, the coffin being draped with the Union Jack and mounted on a guncarriage, with an escort of soldiers belonging'to the New Zaaknd field artillery. The chief mourner was Miss Adelina E. Toler-Curtis, only daughter of deceased. Portion of tho burial service was held at St. Michael's Church, Kelburn, by the Von. Archdeacon Watson, who also officiated at the graveside. At the conclusion of the service the "Last Post" was sounded. Numerous beautiful floral tribuets. sent by intimate friends, covered the oifliii. Mr. W. L. Hesseltine, chief clerk in the Nolson City Council office, lias been selected, out of 91 applicants, for the position of clerk to the Kiwitea County Council!!, ICinvbolton. Mr. HesscStine has been for fifteen years a member of the Town Clerk's staff, ajid has filled his present position for the last ten years. He will enter upon his new duties about October 1. Mr. Victor Beck is to act as advance representative for the New Zealand Diggers' Pierrots .throughout the tour of the Dominion of this clever combination.