PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 92, 13 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Colonel A. D. Stilt, D.5.0., M.C., of (lie Canterbury Regiment, who left wilh (he Main Body, returned by the Kigoma yesterday. Lieutenant-Colonel Mead, D.5.0., of the same regiment, and also a Main Body officer, returned also. Major Brooker, M.C., Canterbury Regiment, who also served as an assistnnt military landing officer in Italy, and was late A.P.M. at Sling Camp, _ returned from active service by the Kigoma yesterday. A Press Association message received from Napier last night staled that, OhiefDetective Ward, who has been transferred (o Wellington was fareivellcd yesterday by rho Magistrate's Court officers, tile liar, and fellow-officers. Suitable presrniaCons were made, and the tone of the remarks showed the high esteem in which Mr. Wjird was held, and the regret felt at his departure on well-de-served promotion. Mr. John I. Fox, organiser and secretary of the Hrilinh Section of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association and late manager of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Club, is reluming to New Zealand by I lie Kiiapehu at Ihe end of the month. Captain W. Hell, Olago .Mounted Rifles Regiment, who bad Ihe misfortune to lose a leg during Ihe lighting round Keniiuel, returned by flic Kigoma }cs- j lerdav. j Lieutenant Arthur B.vrne, Otago Regi- ; ment, of Dunedin, returned from London , by the Kigoma yesterday. "Major D. M'Curdy, of Lower lliitf. wilt*, wns Assistnnt Director of Postal Services with the X.Z.E.F., arrived by the Kigoma yesterday.

Lieutenant 11. J. Manning, late Assietnnt Embarkation Officer for the N.Z.K.F. in London, returned by the transport Kigoma yesterday.

Among the officers who returned by the transport Kigoma yesterday w*as Captain A. G. Dean, M.C., Main Body, Canterbury Regiment.

Captain (Dr.) I. H. Hay, of Otago, was among the officers who returned 'by the Kigoma yesterday.

Major R. A. R. Lowry, who served in the Main Body in the Canterbury Regiment and subsequently held one or two staff- appointments, returned by tho Kigoma yesterday. »

- Mr. Jex-Blake, of Gisborne, accompanied by his wife, daughter,' and two sons, arrived bv the Kigoma yesterday. Mr. Tt H. Ringlnnd, of Dunedin, was a passenger by the Kigoma from Sydney yesterday.'

Air. 15. A. Hicks, Hawke.'s Bay chess champion, who played in the recent New Zealand chess championship, will leave for Wairoa this morning.

Mr. W. T. Woodward, M.A. , late senior house master at Scots College, has been appointed first assistant master at the Wellington Diocesan B.O.Vfi' School, Croydon, Day's Bay. ■

Mr. S. N. 7/inian, Indian Civil Service, a son of Mr. T. Ziman, of Auckland, i= on furlough, and is at present on a visit to Wellington. Mr. Zimnn was selected as Die Rhodes Scholar for New Zealand in 1908, and spent, three years at Balliol College, Oxford, where he "raduated B.A. with honours. He joined the Indian Civil Service in Ml, tnkin® tin an administrative appointment in "the Bombay Presidency. He was permitted to join the Indian Army in 1916, taking a commission in the 35th Scinde Horse, and with the rank of captain wai attached to the staff on the North-West frontier, where he served for two years, participating in various engagements. He will return to India in "November.

A Press Association telegram from Hastings states that the Rev. ,T. B. Brocklehurst, vicar of St Matthews, Hastings, lias resigned his charge, owing to ill-health. Ho was appointed in_ WIO. The death has occured at the Napier Hospital of Mr. W. R. Goldfinch, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Goldfinch, of that town, after a long illness. Deceased left New Zealand with the Mam Body, and was invalided home some two years ago Since lie returned he had found Employment in the Nayier Telephone Exchange, and in (he Registrar of 1 enfiion«' Office, but his health was not equal to the strain, and broke down. He entered the Napier Hospital "Klit months ago, and had been there ever since. The Rev. J. L. A. Kavll, of Auckland, has (states an exchange) been appointed organising secretary in New Zealand for the Welanesian Mission, and the Rev. W .T Durrad is now nssistant-wraniser and lecturer. Mr. Kayll was until Mclv acting diocesan secretary at Auckland. and prior to that was organiser for the Auckland diocesan central fund Mr. Durrad served for a number of years in the Islands as a member of the mission.