PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 90, 10 January 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

6 Mr. Justice Si ringer " ill arrive from tlio south to-morrow morning. Sir Joseph Ward loft for the south last mailt. Tim Hev. Dr. Gibb, of St. John's Church, accompanied |iy Mrs. Ciibb, will leave for the United Kingdom by the Avawa to-dav. The of Dr. fiil>l>'s visit to the Old Country is to try to secure twenty I'rc.sb.ylori.in ministers and twenty home missionaries for service in New Zealand. Mr. K. D. Thomson, 8.A., chief secretafv to the Prime Minister, was admitted to the Companionship-of St. Michael and, St. Ueoige by the New Year Honours. The decoration is one that has never previously been given to a secretnrv to tmv -Minister, and it has been • appreciated by his colleagues .-no less than bv Mr. Thomson himself. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Thomson was entertained bv his fellow-secretaries and cone rat uia ted on having achieved the special distinction. Lieut.-Colonel D'Arcv Chaytor, C.8.E., C.M.G., is renirning to New Zealand by Hie Wahine, due to arrive 011 or aho.tit February, 11. ( His .Grace Archbishop lledwood, accompanied by the Kev. -tather Maillard, parish priest ot Levin, will leave for San Francisco .en route to England and the Continent on Monday next. Dr. Maekin, of Wellington, will leave at the end of the month for Sydney, where lie will connect with a Dutch liner for Java and Singapore. Subsequently lie will proceed to l'lnglitnd, via Japjiii. Dr. Maekin expects to be away at least eighteen months.

Mr. I'. H. Harris, at one time inspector for 1 lie South British Insurance ComDiinv in Waiknto. anil formerly manager of the. Naiiier branch, lias been transferred to Oliristehuvch, as manager oi the cumuanv's business there.

On Wednesday 'last the staff of the National Mortgage and Agency Couinanv's Timaru branch, made a presentation to 'Mr. W. R. M'L.iren, who has been manager of .the branch for a period of. thirty years. Mr. T. li. Mackay, chief auctioneer, in presenting Jlr. M'Tiaren with n framed photograph of the whole o? the members of the stall, referred eulogisticallv to Ihe good feeling which had'always existed between Mr. M'Laren ami his fellow-workers. Jlr. K. TT. .rovo-. the grain manager, endorsed Jlr. Maekay's remarks.

Mr. li'odney A. Vailkhui'bt, who for some months has been organist of St. AugustineV Church, I'etone, has accepted the posiiion of organist at St. Michael's, Kelb'.irn, and will take up his duties very shortly. k

M.r' H. iM. Tiighllwixl, of the Urisbano firm'of Messrs. Hutlnn and MTarlane, arrived by the Moeraki last Sunday on a visit to Ilis relatives in Nelson.

Mr J (r. L. Hewitt, S.M. at M.arton, and Mrs. Hewitt left for Sydney by Iliß 'Moeraki on Thursday lo connect with the Orsova for London.

Mr. K. W. Mihlen. 'of Pnlmerslnn North, left for Sydney on Thursday by the Moeraki en route lor hnglaad.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Levin will leave on a. visit to .linglaiid in Apiil next.

I- Mr William Grant, of ."Uasterlon, is 1 amoiig the passengers who are to leave • for England by the Arawa to-day. r A military funeral wiw accorded ar, 5 Devonport, Auckland to the late Colonel ! W E. Gudgeon. C.M.G., formerly of Wei- ■ lincton. Tlio firing party was supplied 1 from the Permanent Force, and among ■ I th.c officers present were Major J. A. ' i Wallingford (representing Colonel . I. If. : ' Potter, ulHcer commanding the Auckland 1 | military district), Colonel G. Craig, 'I]) S O -.on-in-law of tlio deceased, and j Lieutenant Quigley. Others present in- : eluded Judge C. P. MacCormiclt, ot tlio 1 ' Native Land Courl, representing bir William Ilcrrics, Minister of Native Af- • fairs, Judge J. W. Brown, of Gifiborne, ' ex-Judge It. Dunbar Johnson, Messrs. l'i P."l3arle, Registrar of the Native • Land Court, li. W. Northcriift, NXC., Holaml Hill, representing (lie veterans, :W. Ware, and W. T. Raymond. Iho ' eilief liimirncrs included Messrs. H. and ■ M Gudgeon. The burial service was conducted by the Rev. A. .1. Greenwood, vicar of Holy Tiinity Church, Devonport. m ii ; clvrf clerk of the Marine Department, is at present acting-sec-retary. in place of Mr. G. Allport, who retired from the position ai tlio end of last year. ________