PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 198, 30 January 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

At the annual conference of delegates • to the N.Z. Athletic Union, at Ghrist--1 church, Mr J. Clarke, of New Plymouth was re-elected a vice-president.' Mr A Hansen, of Eltham>, was re-elected a member of the executive. The death is reported of Mr. McNie one of the old pioneers of Rangitikei! Sixty-three years ago, when there were only two shops in Wellington, Mr McNie landed there, and after a while made his way to Stanway (Halcombe), where h e resided during the past forty years. ' • Captain Hubert H. Wright, of the Army Service. Corps, has been appointed General Staff Officer with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Samoa, vice Major W. R. Pinwill, Imperial General Staff. Captain J. G. Roachc, of the sth (Wellington) Regiment, succeeds Captain Wright as Assistant Quartermaster-General.| Lieut. Henry C. Cotton, of the Corps of New Zealand Engineers, is gazetted aide-de-camp and orderly officer to the Acting-'Administra-tor at Samoa, vice Captain T. R. Eastwood and Lieutenant W. H. D. Bell. Lieutenant Norman E. Lee, of the New Zealand Field Artillery, has been appointed to the Field Artillery Brigade, N.Z. Expeditionary Force (2nd rein- ' forcements), in place of Lieutenant F. i S. Robinson.