PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 22, 21 October 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association message stntes that Sir James Allen will love Ghristchurch this morning for Dunodin. Sir Joseph Wind will return from the south this morning. Major K. St. J. Beere has been promoled to bo lieutenant-colonel in command of the oth (Wellington) Regiment vice Lieutenant-Colonel .). J. Esson, C.M.G., who has been seconded for duty as Honorary Financial Adviser. Mr. Charles Hemingway, well known in local bowling circles, returned to Wellington ]),v the Ifiverina yesterday after twelve months' residence in Australia. Major H ; M. Griffon, Director of Financial Services (N.Z. Army Pay Corps), has been promoted to tho rank of lieiitcnant-eolonol. An ex-Wellington journalist, Mr. C. J. Todd, at one time a member of the stall' of The Dominion, has recently embarked on a News Service enterprise at Melbourne which promises to develop into a valuable adjunct to Commonwealth as well as Victorian newspaper life. Mr. Todd has associated with him three Australian journalists and a large staff of reporters, and their main purpose is to supply a news service to the Australian Press and also to papers overseas desirous of keeping in touch with Australian affairs. The new enterprise, which will carry 011 its business under the title of The Press Bureau, will also undertake propaganda work, advertisement-writing, and the preparation of special articles. "Wellington journalists will wish Mr. Todd and his associates success in their venture. Brigadier-General G. Kamaciotti, who for two vetirs lias been connected with Hie Australian Defence Department as inspector-general of * administration and chairman of the home service personnel commission, will enter upon six weeks' furlough to-morrow prior to retirement from the former position. General 'Ea.maciotti, whose health has been unsatisfactory, will be leaving Australia in February next, and in the meantime he will stiil be associated with the home-service personnel commission, which is charged with the reduction of military establishments wherever possible. Tt is now considered certain that Brigadier-General T. Griffiths. who was commandant at A.T.F. headquarters in London, will be the new inspector-general of administration, a post which was created at the instance of the business board of administration, and which carries a salary of ,£BOO per annum.