PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 50, 22 November 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister returned to Wellington last evening. ■ He is leaving for tin; South Island this evening.

Dr. I'!. 11. Wilkins lias been appointed In the new ix>sition. under the Education Department of Superintendent of Medical aiui' Phvsical Instruction. Mr. AY. S. Pratt, Assistant Wheat Controller. who is reltiniitiif to civil employment. was met by delegates to the Dominion millers' conference, says a Press Association telegram from Christchurch, and presented with a purse of sovereigns. The various speakers paid tributes to the successful working of tlio Wheat Control Department, and the material assistance rendered to llie scheme by Mr. Pratt. A Press As ; ocial:ion message from Invcicarcill stales that the Rov. D. IVerron has accented a call to St. David's, Auckland, and will be inducted on December 11. Mr. .T. K. Allen, manager of the Public Trust Office flt Nelson, has been notiiied of his. transfer on promotion to Piilmerstnn' North as Deputy-Public Trustee there. Mr. Allen will take up his new duties on .lanimrv 1, 1920. Mr. K. A. Podd, who for the past: thirteen months has been manager of tho Mount' Gambler branch of the Commercial Dank, has received notice of his transfer to Wellington. New Zealand, where he will occupy the position of chief accountant in the city branch of tlio institution, says a South Australian newsi)n oei'. Mr. A. jr. li'iirnall. a well-known local swimmer, will leave for Auckland' to-day. Mr. Karnall. who is attached to the firm of Cordon and Golch. is one of the' North Island delegates to the New ZeaInnd Swimming Association, and is an ex-secrelurv of the association. Mr. I' 1 . (i. A. Sluckcy, inspector of schools at Masterton, in the Wellington education district, has bn'en appointed senior inspector in the Wanganui district. Mr. A. 11. Kiiuhell, land purchase olliccr of 111" Public Works Department.. ha-s been appointed Under-Sccrp-larv for Mines, in su.'ui'ssion to Mr. IT. •1» If. Plow, who held the position tcmnoivuilv while the war was on. l.ioulonanli-Cominando.r J(. Bourke, R.N.V.It.. who as commander ,ol' Motorlaunch 2711 played a brilliant part in t;lie great deeds of daring at Z:ebrngge and Ostein), has been visiting .Hamilton. Ll.Coinmander Doiirke won (lie D.S.O. for his part in the blocking operations at Zeebrugge, on April ii, l!lis. ('•> the occasion of tho second raid on C»lrwl, on May 10, ho won II:? Victoria Crop, and was made a Chevalier of tjic Legion I of Hoiiour, '