PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 31, 31 October 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

•\ Press Association cablegram from Frcmantle .states that .Sennlor Pcarce, Federal Defence Minister, lias arrived by the Orsovn, en route to Melbourne.

Professor T. U. llaslerficld, for twenlyone vears Professor of Chemistry to tlie Victoria College University, lias tendered his resignation to the council, in order to lake up his duties as Director of the Cawthron Institute at: Nelson. Professor l-iasterliold does not anticipate boil)'.' able to take up his new duties until April next.

Mr.. Tolln Henry Boyes. Registrar of Pensions at Auckland, lias been appointed Assistant-Commissioner at Wellington. '

The body of the late Mr. J. Colvin was put on the steamer Komata. last evening to go to Westporl: for interment. A verv representative gathering of friends of Mr. Colvin joined in tho procession from the Mortuary Chapel to the steamer Almost all the members of Parliament were there, the 'Ministers with their secretarial staffs, and also all the senior officers of the House and officers of the Departments with which Mr. Colvin hud had to deal as Minister. The affectionate regard in which members held Mr. Colvin had been manifested in the House earlier m tho afternoon, and it was also shown by tlie sad group of members who stood by while the coffin was being put aboard tho steamer.

Mr. S. Bridge, of (he A.M.I?. stall, is at present on holiday 'leave in the Marlborough Sounds.". When wounded at the front Mr. Bridge was also slightly Brassed', and the recurrent effects liavo forced him to relinquish work for a lime.

In view of the sudden death of Mr. Waller T. Cox and the continued absence oT Mr. David Reid in Europe, tho managers of the Orient Line have appointed Mr. D. L. Dowdell ncting-senci-iil manager in Australia. Mr. Dowdell lias just arrived in Australia from London, where he has been acting as tho delecnte. member of the Commonwealth Shipping Board. Prior to this he was the branch manager of the Orient lino in Melbourne.

Mr. Jacob Davis, managing director of Benjamin's Ltd., died in New York on August 25. The remains were brought back to New Zealand by the Niagara, and reached Christchurch several days nno. Tho interment took place in tho Jewish portion of the Lmwood Cemcteir. the Uev. 'David Schlnss officiating. Tlie chief mourners wen- Messrs. Mark Davis. J. Davis, and L. Davis, brothers of deceased.

Messrs. W. 6. JTaybittle (Feilding) and F W. Haybittle (Wellington) leave on a trip to the Southern Islands 'by the Government steamer Minemoa to-day. Mr W. T. Irvine, of Palmerston North, will! leave to-day by tho Government steamer Hinemoa on a tnp to the Southern Islands. Mr. S. 11. Cradrtock, who for ihe past Ave- years has 'been accountant at tho A«liburton branch of the Union Bank of Australia, has been promoted to the position of manager at the ianeatua branch of the bank. . Mr. A. W. Bennett, late general mana. ger of the Now Zealand Shipping Company, lias joined the. New Zealand Board of Directors of that company. Mr. John M'Kittrick, Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages at limaru, has been promoted Relieving Registration Officer at-Wellington. Mr. G. M. Gilbert has been appointed Deputy-Registrar . of Marriages, Births and Deaths at Ingle-wood. Tho appointment of Mr. W. H. Treeman to be clerk of the Magistrates Court at Itawera as from October 10, is announced in the "Gazette.' Mr. Hugh M. C. Robertson has been appointed an assistant-inspector of hospitals. Mr. Francis L. Ward has been appointed ranger of Crown Lands for the Taranaki districtMr. Even A. Campbell is gazetted a member of tho Assessment Court foil tho Ohakuno borough, and Mr. A. P. Allport for the Collingwood county and Motuekiv borough. Mr. David IK Floming is appointed a member of the Court for Awatere and Marlborough counties.

Caption H. Monro, director of tho Canterbury Steam Shipping Company, Chvistchurch, anil Mrs. Monro, will arrive lw the Manuka this morning to meet tlicir son, Mr. Eric Monro, who w returning from England by the s.s. lon Elliott. Mr. E. Monro was a member of the N.7,.E.P., unci obtained Ins ilits charge in England. Couueilbr G. Frost has been appointed the representative of the Wellington Citv Council at the Provincial Expansion League conference, to bo held at Palmerston North, next week.

Dr. D. Isaacs, who wns attached to (ho Dental Corns of the NXE.F., lias returned to Wellington, after an absence of four venrs. He spent a year in Egypt, and was on the Marquette when she was torpedoed in the Mediterranean with »rent loss of life. Subsequent to that trade event he spent fix months at Salonika, and was afterwards two years anil ,i half in France. His only ailment durinir Ihe period he was in France was an attack of appendicitis, for which he had to undergo an operation. Dr. Isaacs wns in London a good deal with the late Lieutenant 1). A. Kenny, whose 1111Hmclv death is still mourned in Wei lington. Being fellow Savages and both active members of the Wellington Amateur Operatic Society, they saw several ncrfonnanees together, and renewed their acquaintance with Mis? Rosin:* linickman. the New Zealand prima donna, in London. Then Lieutenant Kennv went to join up with n machinegun school for a special course of training, but a few days later returned to London a sick man, anil went to the hospital at Waltoncn-Thanies._ Dr. Isaacs slales that Lieutenant Kenny's death was caused through peritonitis supervening on appendicil:-, not enteric, ns was rcßorteii. A greens!one cto-'s is to be erected in the new SI. Mary of,the Angels' Church (where Lieutenant Kciinv was choirmas'er and organ'st for years) by the Wellington Savage Club.