PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 77, 24 December 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Fir ,T.iniP* Allen, Minister of Defence, left for I lie south last evening. The Mayo:- (Mr. .T. V. Luke) and ITvs. T.iiku have left nn a visit to Won?anui. They will bo nbsent from "Wellington until Hie New Year. Mr. A. B- J. Irvine. Auckland manager of the Union SlPiim Ship Company, liavin" reaoheil retiriiiK ase. has deculwl l(i"rel : .m|u'sh his position as from tlio end of next month. Mr. J. If. C. Ikmd at present ppncral traffic manager n't the soii!|!nnv'*'lipnd Dnnedin, !,,,£; | H . C n iimininted lo fill the vacancy. Mr N. S. Valla will succeed Mr. Bond as Vniiral traffic manager at Dunedin. Oner.il Brnmwell Booth and =to(V officers are expected lo arrive in New ..ealnml in April. General Booth w roming out via Vnneonver. and will laml ~t AiieWfln.l. Ho will vij:t tk chief Salvation Army centres in >w /.ealamt, poi')" as fur as Tnvercii'Bill. and return to \Vellin"lnn for eonferenee and other lm«ine"! ' The fJpiiernl will leave Wellimrtoncn an official visit to Austral'?. Mr T M Troiin, who lias been senior Irovciler W Messrs. WnW, StephcnFMi and Co. for a number of years, was nrpwnled nn Saturday w;tl' a frold albeit witch chain on spverins his connection ,1-iHi Hie firm. The presentation was made by Mr. Martin, direclor who s,*ke of the Rnod nualihcs of the' recipient and the cordial relationship which had always existed between hlii! am! the firm. Mr. Donald Kohertson. Public Service, ro'imniesionor. will retire from the service as early in the New Year as possible. Sn 'far his successor has not been named.

A Association ca'olo messaso state-, that the Hcv. Doiwltl.Baker has l:oeu elected Bishop of Bendigo. ■ \ iirivale letter received from Mr. .ToliK 11. Th it, of the theatrical firm of ,T and X. 'I'nit. records tlio deatli ot l,j-i (■lde-t brotlipr. Mr. W- Tait. in He - liour-i". Deceased was not connected vith (Ih> (inn. The other brothers are Messrs. ,Tohn. I'raiik. Xovin, and Charles lait. Mr Xevin Tait acts tor the firm in London, and Mr. flinrlen Tait. is innnaffiii.' rl ; reclor for Allen and Co., lnusio publisher-; and warehousemen, in which rhe firm is largely interested.

Mr. V. Johnson. mmiiißor for Hid Union Company nt Sydney, and llr. t. Hughes imin.igcr at Molbourne, have exchanged positions.

The Rev. S. I' , . Hunter, M.A., 8.D., of St Paul's. Oamarii. has been awarded by the Melbourne College of Divinity l'»' st Class Honours in the TToi'mirs B.JJ. group nf "Biblical and Historical Theology. The- owniiiiMion covered six papers, one oaeh on "Th- Fstory of Doctrine to \D 787 " "Tlip Theolojry of Uionins Xniiinu-*/ , "The Tl.rotoi- of Alllnwht ltiM.l." "Old Testament and Jewish VhroW ami Iwo papers on Jjovr . esLament Theology (one ?w™\. the other on a reticular subject i. Mr. Hunter secured an average of !IO per cent, over the six papers. The Ttev. W- H. Hal troy, who has Wn vicai- of Knlikati for the past f/>ur vonrs, Ims announced his rrs:«nainn on th, ground that the hi ß h cost ol living has caused hie expenses to exceed his income. , , i i, Contain H. A. Dillner D.S.C., line left fov Lvttoltou. vh're ho is f° S»P mi appointment as surveyor under the Marine Department. His Excellency the Governor presenl »d in Ohristcburch on Saturday the Military' Cross to Lieutenant' Geffrey Gordon Rich (Kinir 1-dward's Horse), his award was made for conspicuous gaimnirv and devotion to duty in defence of a pn;t which Lieutenant Well held wr.li r> men mid two Tlotc'ifciss nuns on April 12. 101 S. 'it Tluit Maisons Post and Lα Hasseo Canal brides. Although turned and lmmbod. he retreated mwnnls and saved tiie trench system by a local counter-attack "ewe arrivins that the enemy were moving down to a bridge, ho was ordered to ■>allni> his troops there, and, nrnvimj Minnltanron'ily with the enemy, he attacked, drove them back, and re-estab-lished the bridge-head.

\dvice has boon received of the sudden death in Engl-md of Dr. J. A. Goin" forinerlv of Iftmillon. Dr. Going was W years 'old. no left Hamilton Inst Julv, and was practising in .Cam(,rid«e«hire. En>;lm:d. Before settling at Hamilton he h<id nraclised in Queensland and the FalVand Islands. Hois survived by a widow, and one son, Mr. Philip fining, who resides at Cambridge, Mr" II H. Allison, headmaster of tho West' I.vttollon School, has been appointed'headmaster of the Grcymouth iiMriet HMi School. He will enter upon his new duties after the Christmas holidays.

Manv people in scientific circles . in New Zealand will be interested to learn Hint the Eev. T3ro. Ignatius Gottfried, for some years well known in Wellington as an astronomer and scientist, who road a number of papers betorc the Philosophical Society of. New Zealand, •ind left, the Dominion something over a year ago for tho Oaldands University Washington, n.C, was, on October .8 last, ordninod priest by His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons. Detective J. F. Hammcrley, who Vaa been attached to the Dunedin office for tho past six and a half years, hae left the l'oiico Department. SeiL'eant Clurkson, of the Gisborno police force, has received notice of his (nnsl'er l<> take charge of tho Blenheim no'lice district, and will take over his new dulica as booh as arrangements can be mtide. llr Marcus !•'. Harks, Government Printer is fpeiuling tho Christmas and New i'oar holidays at Haniner Springs. J[r E Brown, recently appointed Inspector of Machinery, served illis apprenI ceship ad an engineer will) Messrs. Cable and Co., Wellington. In 1507, he was appointed fourth engineer of tho s.s. Invenin, then visiting this port. In Mil ho was promofod to tho position of chief eii"ineer of tho Tnvtrnn, and in 1912 he supervised the construction of tho s.s. Hawkhcad, and failed as her chief engineer until his entry into the Royal Navy early in 191" a* «" engineer sublieutenant. He served two years in II M S. Cochrane on North Sea patrol, convoy, and Northern Russian stations. On tb'o loss of H.Jt.S. Cochrane, in 1918, ho was promoted to engineer lieulcnantcomm.imW, and appointed to tho command of the engine department ol R..M.S. Tempest. This vessel was n modem destroyer of M.OOO horfc-power, with a Rpce'd of -17.2 knots, and was attached to Admiral TvnvhiU'fi sciuadron with base at. Harwich. He left the Royal Navy in Au»usl last wilih Hie rank of engineer lieii"toiiiiiit-ooiiuii!in(ler. Mr. Droivn will act as inspector of machinery, surveyor of ships, examiner of murine cnginceis, land engineers, and land engine-drivers. Mr. J. l>. Clarkson intends spending Christmas mid Now Year in the South Island. He will be accompanied V-y Mrs. Clarkson, who has just returned from America and England.