PERSONAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 7

PERSONAL.

The Hon G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow morning from Wellington. Ho will attend at the Ministerial offices, Government Buildings, for public business from ten till eleven o’clock, and in the afternoon will visit Darfield, to be present at the ceremony to bo held in connection with the laying of the foundation stone of the Soldiers’ Memorial Hall. The Minister will return to Wellington tho same evening.

Mr H. Overton left last evening on a visit to Auckland. Commissioner J. Cullen spent yesterday in Christchurch and left for Wellington in the evening. Lieutenant Carvos&o, Officer in Charge of Supply and Transports, arrived in Christchurch yesterday on a few days’ leave. Lieutenant-Colonel Porritt has returned from Samoa, where ho was acting as principal medical officer, and has resumed his practice in Wanganui. The Hon G. Fowlds has been appointed to tho seat on the Auckland University College Council made vacant by the death of Sir G. M. O’Rorko.

In tho list of commission appo;ntments published a day or two ago the name of Sergeant W. G. Cain was omitted. He received first appointment to a commission.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Board of Governors of the M’Lean Instituto a welcome home was extended to Mrs A. C. Sandston, who had been on a visit to England during the past fifteen months.

Mr Mackay, who has been appointed overseer in connection with the experimental area at Ashburton, and will permanently reside in the town, is at present visiting Weraroa State Farm, and will enter upon his duties at an early date. Tho Minister of Defence will go to Auckland to-day to make the presentation of tho French Military Medal to Sergeant-Major Boate. Mr Allen hopes to be able to arrange for half tho Eighteenth Reinforcements to parade in Auckland in tho course of a. few weeks.

Mr M. Hawkins, formerly gaoler at Invercargill, and more recently inspector of public works under the Prisons ‘Department, has been appointed De-puty-Inspector of Prisons. Mr Hawkins arrived from Wellington by the ferry steamer and left by the second express for Invercargill. Mr F. J. Shelton, who recently was appointed • manager and secretary of tho New Zealand Fruitgrowers’ Association, is visiting Christchurch, and attended tho Horticultural Society’s flower show in the Art Gallery last evening. Ho will leave to-morrow evening for Wellington, where ho has mado his hoadquarters. Mr D. G. Clark, Commissioner of Taxes, arrived by the second express from Invercargill on Wednesday, and yesterday was in attendance at tho Government Buildings to interview taxpayers and answer any questions propounded to him on the subject of recent taxation regulations. Mr Clark will be in attendance in his rooms today, returning in the evening to Wellington. Tho death is announced at Dcvonport, Auckland, of Mr Colin Campbell. He was on the Dunstan goldfields, and was manager of the Kumara, Ross and Hokitika branches of the Bank of New South Wales. He joined tho Bank of New Zealand, and was for fifteen years manager of the Milton branch. On leaving Milton he went to reside at Auckland.

Mr William Montgomery, son of the lato Captain Henry Montgomery, of Wanganui, passed away in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in July last. He was an Australian by birth, but spent tho best years of lm lifo in New Zealand. In his youth he was fond of athletics, being a boating man 'and captain of the Wanganui football team. Ho was a personal friend of the late Mr John Ballance and Sir Richard Soddon, and a supporter of tho Liberal Govornmen fc.

Hie death took place in America early in August, of Sir F. SV. Frankland, at one time commissioner of the Government Insurance Department in New Zealand. He had a brilliant career at University College, London, especially as a student of mathematics. It was his intention on leaving University College to go to Cambridge, hut a breakdown through overwork led to his making a voyage to New Zealand, in the hope of regaining his health. On his recovery his high mathematical attainments found scope in the newlyformed Government Insurance Department of New Zealand, of which ho afterwards became chief commissioner. He represented New Zealand as statistical delegate at the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, Held in London in 1891. His reputation as an actuary led to his being called to fill appointments in London and in New York, and during the past- two years he acted as consulting actuary to the Equitable Insurance Company of New York.