PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 1, 26 September 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain F. E. Guest, Government Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, is freely mentioned in connection with Government appointments, including the Colonial Secretaryship and a Governorship overseas—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

Dr. Eldon M. Litchfield has been appointed physician on the honorary stalt of the Wellington Hospital.

The Legislative Council yesterday gi anted the Hon. R. K. Simpson a week's leave of absence on account of ill-health.

The distinction of an Honorary Fellowship has been conferral 'by tho Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, upon Colonel AV. H. Parkes, C.M,G„ C.8.E., who served during the war with tho New Zealand Army Medical Corps. In a letter received by Colonel Parkes, the president of the Roya.li College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Dr. R. M'Kenzie Johnston, states that the college had decided to mark the termination of the great war by offering an Honorary Fellowship to a representative of each group of tho medical forces of the Empire and of the Allies in appreciation of the splendid services rendered. Colonel Parkes stated that such a distinction must be regarded purely as an appreciation of the splendid services vendfired during the war by the New Zealand Medic.il Corps, and that it was very gratifying that the corps had been deemed worthy of such high distinction.

A Press Association message from riirislehurch states that Mr. Frank O'Brien, manager of the well-known ■O'Brien boot factory, died rather suddenly last night.

1)". A. K. 'Newman, M.P.. has been confined to his house by illness. He hones to Ira able to attend the sitting of Parliament to-day.

The Following have been appointed deputy registrars of births, dcaluis and marriages for the districts named:—Mr. W. M'Kinnoß. Palmerston; M.r. F. E. Robertson, Halcombc; .Mr. James Kerr, Bketnlimi'a; Mr. A. C. AV. Murdoch, Feildingj Mr. V. J. Delaney, Bulls; Mr. John Ivxcell. Ngaruawahia; and Mr. jf. AV. Ashby, Nelson.

Mr. T. A. B. Bailey. S.M. has been appointed Registrar of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth.

'lieutenant T. Turnbuil, •!!.X.Tt., youngest son of Mr. W. Turnbuil, of Hobson Street, who went away in the Motor-boat Patrol, is returning to Wellington on Saturday. : '

Mr. C. W. Batten, Wellington dislric-. repatriation officer, is still r.way on business in the Hawke's Buy district, but; expects to bo back in Wellington on Monday next.

After an absence of nine years and a half, Lieutenant C. M. Ward, M.C.,> has THturned to Wellington, and intends to set up practice as a chemist, in which, profession lie had just gained his diploma in London when war broke out. During the war he served in the Pi.A.MX'., and • tlie British Machine-Gnu Corps, in which lie gained his decoration.

Mr. T. o.Bishop, A.0.5.M., a graduate of the Otago School of Mines, lias been appointed inspecting engineer nf metalliferous mines to the Department of Mines, Wellington.

Major P. E. Cooper, who has been serving with the Imperial Forces in Franco, has returned to Auckland. .Major Cooper, who was an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School, ami was formerly on the reporting stalf of the "New Zealand Herald," left Auckland to go' to England in 1015, in order to join the Royal Flying Corps. Finding some •tilticulty in gaining admission to that branch of the service owing to the number of applicants, he joined the floyui Garrison Artillery with the rank of junior lieutenant. He rapidly gained promolion, and, in 1313, was awarded the Croix do fJuerru.

Mr. J. Smith was unable to be present at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board owing to illness, and on the motion of the chairman (Mr. F. Castle) it was decided to forward a letter to Mr. Smith, trusting that he would soon be restored to health.

Dr. A. Clark, of Eemuera, who returned to New Zealand by the Ayrshire, after nearly four years' active service, reached Auckland on Tuesday. He served as a member of tho New Zealand Medical Corps, successively in Egypt, England, and France: After the signing of the Armistice he went with the New Zealand Division to Germany, and snbsequcnKy was at tho New Zealand camp at Sutton Coldfieltl, near Birmingham.

A Press Association message from Wanganui states that Mr. Kingston Chamberlain, who returned to Wnnganui on Saturday after four years at tho front, dropped dead yesterday morning from heart failure. Ho was- formerly employed by Hie New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co., and was about to start work. His youngest brother was killed on Gallipoli, and another brother lost a leg, and is stilj under the doctor's care.

Mr. Alexander Laird, who died recently at Wangahui, was born in New Plymouth in 1857, and in his younger days was one of the best riflo shots in the district.