PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Lieut. Maurice Sp'rott, M.C, sei di the Anglican Bishop of Wellington, halj been promoted to captain. ( Mr. J. Blair Mason, engineer to ths Otago Harbor Board, has been appointe4 consulting engineer to the New Plyw mouth Harbor Board, and is mow paying a (preliminary visit of inspection to this port. The name of Second-Lieut. Norman JP. Little, son of Mr. J. Little, Sentry Hill, is included in tho lateßt cabled list of New Zealanders, who have been awarded the Military Cross. Lieut. Little is yet another old boy of tho Nejw Plymouth, High School to earn distinction in the war. He was dux of the school in IWO and won Dr. Pookes' cup for general excellence that year and again in 1811. He continued his studies at Victoria College, Wellington, and while in camp wa,s; notified of his success in passing the B.A, degree and also partial pass LL3, He left with the 18th Reinforcements, Mr. W. G. Foster, Mr. W. D. Stewart, and Di>. Eeakes, constituting the New, Zealand Government Requisitions Com/i niittee, have resigned. Their resignations are understood to 'be the outcome of a gazette notice to the effect that at the request of the British War Office it has been decided that the Department of Imperial supplies shall be the eontrolling body in the Dominion, under the Premier's direction, for all matters oonnected with the requisitioning of wool and other supplies by the Imperial Government in which the Wax Office is eoui cerjaepj