PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10293, 30 May 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr R. W. Bothamley has been appointed an official visitor to Porirua Mental Hospital.

Mr J. G. Crawford, M.R.C.S., has been appointed medical officer to the lnvercargill Institution.

Mr John Jackson has boon appointed an inspector for the purposes of the Shearers and Agricultural Labourers' Accommodation Act.

The Meritorious Service Medal has been awarded to Staff Sergeant-Major John Thomson, New Zealand Permanent Staff.

The friends of Mr J. E. Read,.late of the Registrar-General's office, wilt be sorry to hoar that he"is lying seriHisly ill in the Wellington hospital.

Mr A. Marshall, who has been act-ing-chief clerk and receiver of lands revenue in Invercargill for the last eighteen months, has received notice ol his transfer to Blenheim.

Mr.H. J. Lowe has been appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for the land district of Marlborough, also conservator of State forests lor that* district.

~Mr A. N. Field, late. PaymesterLieutenant,<'R.NvV.R., son of Mr T. A. JEL Field,- M.P., has been elected a member of the Royal Colonial Institute. **•■'-'■-• "'■-■■■• '

Mr' John Rod;* of Johnsonville, -who has been in poor health some time past, is at present an inmate. of tha Thorndon hospital. His condition is reported to be improving.

Mr L. W. Maginnity, clerk in the Nelson Lands and Deeds Registry, has been transferred to the Auckland offict., and leaves for the north at the end of this"week."

The Rev. T. Fielden Taylor, formerly Chaplain to the. Forces, and lately ■>f the Nelson Diocese, has accepted the charge of St. Peter's Mission, Taranaki street,-and is to begin work }here next Sunday. * \

> .Mr. S-.. Av.-Young r SiM.vnas been appointed Registrar of the Supreme Court at Hamilton, and chairman of the Licensing Committees for the districts of Waikato and Thames, vice Mr J-.-'W. Poynton, S.M.

The following • appointments of clerks of Magistrates' Courts have been gazetted:—Hastings, Mr H. G. Smith; Oamaru, Mr G..G. Chisholm; Waimate, Mr W. Harte; Dannevirke. Mr O. V. Roberts.

Mr W. J. Birch, of Marton, who has been Wellington treasurer of the farmers' Union for some years, has resigned offi.ee, and Mr T. Moss, of Eke•tahuna, has been elected to fill his place.

After spending a quarter of a century in the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales ir various charges throughout the State, the Rev. W. Michael Smith, M.A., haa resolved to leave early in June foi England, and possibly Canada.

■ The Rev. Brother Boniface Carroll (Provincial of the Patrician Brothers;, Brother Baptist McGrath (Bathurstj, and Brother Alfonsis Eviston (Redfern) ..have left Sydney to attend a general chapter of their order in Tulla, Ireland. They will be away about six months.

The-following names- of officiating ministers,:und«r the Marriage Act arc published for general information: — Presbyterian Church, the Rev. H. C. Gaut; Methodist Church, Mr V. S. Mercer; Sal ration Army, Adjutant J. S. Bladin; People's Mission, the. Rev. S. J. Campbell, . " .

Captain E. A. Downie, who died in Adelaide recently, was for many years in the employ of. Messrs Howard Smith, Ltd. He was a native of Canada, and at, different times had charge of several .of • ii\&: company's largest cargo steamers trading in Australian waters and overseas. v

Mr Lindsay Gardner has returned to New Zealand after three"years' activa service in France. Before joining tho Expeditionary Forces he was for a number of years employed by Mtsssra Dalgeiy and Co., Ltd., in their Palmerston North branch. He has now been appointed to take charge of th» land department in' the Wanganui branch. :■ i-.....

Mr A. G. Kemp, Invercargill man* ger of-tho Austrahan Mutual Provident' Society, has received notice of his transfer, .to take charge of tho Qamaru office. His place in Invercar. gill will. be taken by Mr F. A. Barclay, of the Wellington office. Mr Barclay is a brother of Mr A. do it. Barclay, for many years sub-editor ot tho "Southland Times." r

The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-: Service-Medal has been ' awarded .-.to' bioutenant-Colonel R. R. Grigor, 12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles : - Major T. H. llingland, 'Sthx (Hawke's Bay) Regiment ; Regimental gcanfc W. C. V. Grindell, 9th (Hawked Bay) Regiment; Band-Sergeanfc M. K. Mara, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment; and Captain TV W. Sommerville, Unattached List (b). "■.

Tho following report -was received by ,'.he.City Council last night from the milk committee: "That this committee desires to place loss that it has sustained-by the-demise of the \ate Mr James Mcßean, who serFed this_ committee untiringly from its 'larliest .stages,. and who was a great factor in bringing„thc milk scheme to 'ts present successful position, And. regrets that «the t-conneil- has been deprived of an official who was qualified to fill the highest office that the council had. in its power to confer."

Ca-ptain B. F. Selby, U.C, who epiisted with the'Slain Body as a serScant in Invercai'gilf in August, 1914, i-eturnod to New ZealantLon board the t'aparoa. Cuptiiin »S«tby, who , wo* well known In territorial and sporting circles in Southland before the war, has come urnvoundod through all the heavy fighting in whic the Otago Battalion has been engaged. lie ku mentioned' in Sir Douglas Haig's dispatohei during tho Somme battle, end wqs_a warded the Military. Cross for conspicuous bravery at Messines.

Motors for hire (open or closed) ky ringing 2240. Stanton and Evans (under Virfj-Reeal patrona<?eT. 13. Molesivorlh street (opp-jsite • Parlihntpntarv Builriinizs). Garage accommodation and repairs. ~ •