PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 27, 27 October 1920, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Archbishop Redwood has returned to New Zealand after ten months' absence in the Old Country and Europe.

The following promotions and appointments in the Puolic Trust Office are announced:—Mr. P. 1?. Wmckcomb, Local Deputy Public Trustee, Palincrston North; Mr. W. 6. Hand-Newton, Assistant. Solicitor, Head Office; Mr. D. L. M'Kay, Second Assistant Local Deputy Public Trustee, Auckland.

Mr. H. Willis, an official of the London office of the National Bank of New Zealand, arrived at Auckland by the Tainui from England on Saturday. Mr. Willis proposes spending'about three months in the Dominion,

The following recent promotions in the Post and Telegraph Department are announced:—Mr. A. Shclton, senior mail clerk, Napier, to be inspector (postal division) General Post Office; Mr. A. A. Chittenden, postmaster, Otiahuhu, to be. postmaster, Kaetihi.

Sub-Inspector W. G. Wohlmann, of Auckland, who has been promoted to the position of Commissioner of Police for Samoa, will leave for Samoa by the Mokoiti next Saturday

A Maori War veteran, 'Mr. Jamcg Henry Johnston, died in the Auckland Hospital on October 25 at the age of 89 years 7 months Mr. Johnston was born at Antrum Island in March, 1832 He enlisted in the 66th Regiment in 1852, ami joined the depot at Canterbury. 116 ciime to New Zealand in 1554 and joined ,tl\o regiment at Wellington. He was present throughout the Maori War from .IS6O to 1855, principally in the Taranaki district. From 1860 to 18112 he was in tin Commissariat Departmeni, and after in the military section of his office -until 1-SCo, when he received his discharge and later the New Zealand War Medal.

The Eev. E. I'algrave Davy, 'of Auckland, superintendent of the New Zealand Children's Mission, has left for Sydney, at the invitation of Ihe Evangelisation Society of New South Wales, to initiato a children's mission movement for, the benefit of the young people of-that State. Mr. Davy will also organise on the various beaches of New South Wales sandserviccs and pastimes which have proved so popular_in the' Dominion. "Warrant-Oiik'er J. M. Bennett and Sergeant Shiers are gnzetted lion, lieutenants in the Australian Military Forces. Lieutenants Bennett and Shiers accompanied Sir Eoss Smith and Sir Keith Smith on their flight from England to Australia

Mr. Scott Colville, touring manager for J. C. Williamson, Ltd., arrived yesterday to arrange for the season of Carter the Great, magician and illusionist.

Mr. Harold Bowden is manager of J. C. Williamson's 'Tilly of Bloomsbury" Company, now at the Grand Opera House. '