PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 168, 12 April 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Colonel the Hon. Sir James Allen, K.C.B. (D), Minister of Defence, is to ha entertained at dinner on April 1" bj Major-Ueneral Sir 11. W. C. Chaytor. K.0.M.G., C.8., A.D.C. (I);, and officers of the Defence Department.

Dunodin papers announce the death of Mr. P. Thurgarland, accountant to Messrs. R. Hudson anil Co., and twentysix years in that employ. He took ill suddenly on Good Friday and died on Easter Monday.

Councillor C. B- Norwood has cabled to his office in Wellington that he w in Paris, and will return to London en April 13, and that he will leave Kngland about May 1 in the s.s. Indarra for New Zealand.

Mr. E. T. TayJor, of the firm »f Mcjsw. E. Taylor and Co., is about to leave on a health-recruiting triD to.lho South Sea Islands.

Mr. Herbert F. Wood, the Wellin.sl.o7i tenor, who has been touring for a month on tliA New Zealand Picture Supplies circuit, left for Sydney on Friday Inst.

The Rev. G. E. Hale left -m Friday night for Auckland to take nnrt in tho welcome to the Eev. Albert 'Phornhill, ALA., who, witli his wif;;, and two children, is expected to arrive from Syd-ney'to-day. Mr. Thornhill has been for some'years in chnrge of the RrookfieSd Church, Manchester, one of the latest Unitarian Churches in England. Ho is to take np the ministry of the Auckland Unitarian Church.