PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 20, 18 October 1919, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS

. Brigadier-General Richardson. Lieut - Colonel Avery, and Major J'. M Cristell will leave for Auckland on 'Monday to inspect ordnnnee stores and services. I liev will 'return -to Wellington the iollowine Monday. ~'

Mr. S. W. B. M'Crcgor, IT.-M. Senior Trade Commissioner in Australia who has been touring in the South Island, will arrive in Wellington to-dav. He is reti'vning lo Australia by the Mahenu about October 27. :

Canon ,T. Ilaselden' who is retiring after-.53 years' ministry at St.. Peter's Church, Onehunga. has been appointed temporary viear of St. Luke's Church, Mount Albert .(.slates Jisin exchange). Canon- ltaselden was the.-first vicar of this church, forty-lwo years ago. He will be succeeded at , Onehunga by the Rev. J.. K. Bnrgin.

Mr. (*. Irving, chief steward of Iho liner Karamea. wfto was taken to 'the New Plymouth Hospital on Saturday when the vessel arrived in port, suffering from paraly>is, dicjl at an early hour 011 Wednesday luorniiig. Deceased wa-= ow-t TO years of aw, and. was a native of Surrey.' His last' address was given as Tower Street, Brightliugsea.

The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) and Councillors W. F. Bennett, <G. Frost, _ J.. M'Kenzie, M, F. Luckie, and AV. ,T. Thompson, were appointed . managers' of the Wellington Technical College (as representing the C-ily Council) at Thursday's meeting of the council.'

Northern advices state-that Mr,. James Carlaw, Auckland city waterworks engineer, is to leave for Sydney .by . -Ihe Niagara next, week, having- beon-'granted six-mouths' leave on account. of -the nbte of his health. - •

IJr; .T. D. Campbell Duncan, who has for Hie past nine and a half years been medical officer in charge of ' Halmior Springs Sanatorium and Baths, lia6 been appointed Government' Bnlnsolojdst at ' fiotorua,-* in succession to Dr. A.'S. Hcr'heff, 'resigned. Since' September, Iflta, Dr. Duncan ha.s heeii'serving-'\viWr the Now - Zealand ExpMitiohary '.forces','in ■'fferptV' Trance, and 'at 'Nrt:'' ; 2 Nhir Zea'land General Hosl)itiil:WMton-0!i-Tl?aill'es. 110-was' wouiided itt'liic Sonilii'e Offensive' ot"191B. .Prior to T'eturmng'-'to New Zealand. Dr. Duncan had been soine tiiuO at the Royal Mineral Water' Hospital, Bath, studying the latest methods of balneology as practised there,' and for some tinio previous to his retura' to New was !'=sof:iated with Dr. Joiies'.Llewellyn, of Harlev Street, Ltiiuloi), and Bath; who is senior governor.'pf the Eoyal ; Mineral Water Hospital at Bath, "and Otie 'of the leading authorities"nri rlientiiatisin and chronic diseased in England.-. Since l-eturnini; to New .Zealand Dr. Duncan has heen attached to the .King George V Hospital, Eotorua, as medical officer in charge of physio-tberapeui/ic!. -

, Mr. Harrington Reynolds, who died suddenly on the stage at the Christchurch Opera House on Wednesday evening, was an American actor. very .well known.on circuit in the States. He originally came out to Australia and New Zealand with the Daniel Frawley' Company, playing "Arizona," "Barbara Fre-itchc," etc., s"onie fifteen years ago or more, and with that organisation went, rifterwards.. to -South Africa. He next'-' returned .to Australia in 1913.wifh "'/T ji'e.R«f.av>V >> a play, in which ho figured conspicuously ii.< .the -Rev. Brian Kelly': aijd with that play lid came to Wellington in June, 1914. After "The Rosary'.'; had run .its 'course, Mr. Reynolds .managed, a steel company at Brisbane, and later still went into vaudeville with a sketch based. oil "Theßosary" and others. .He was playing in Wellington a fortnight ago, when he looted very well. ■ The ; actor,. who was-67 years of age, leaves a widowand son (Mr. Harrington Reynolds, jun.). a vaudeville artist, in New York, U.S.A.