PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The Hospital Board yesterday received the resignation of Nurses M. L. Waller and K. Mills. Mr. and Mrs J. R. Cruiekshank left yesterday morning on route for the Old Country. They expect to be absent about seven or eight months. Tcmp.-Warrant Officer V. C. Daviea (Wcstown), who returned to New Zealand by the troopship Carpentaria, arrived in New Plymouth by the mail train last night-

It will be of interest to footballers to know that Mr. W. L. Macßae, a Wellknown Hawke's Bay referee, has taken up his residence in New Plymouth. The death is announced at Auckland of Mr John Batger, a very old colonist, who for many years was associated with the public and commercial activities of the northern city

General Russell has been ordered by his medical advisers to cancel all engagements. It is considered that a complete rest for a lengthy period is essential. The Napier reception has been abandoned.

Mr. Owen Bayly, son of Mrs. Walter Im-I.y, who is now a student at the Auckland University, has passed the first potion of the examination for the law decree. The subjects in which he has passed are jurisprudence, constitutional history, and Ititin.

Ihe Rev. R, IT. Hobday, M.A., vicar o. JUtliani, has been appointed to the hcadniastership 0 f the Wellington Diocesan Boys' School, Day's Bay. He expects to leave Eltham to take up his new duties within the next three months. —Argus.

At St. Peter's Mission, Wellington, rea faro well was Riven to the Itev. K M. Kemptliorne, late curate of St. Peter's, who is leaving to take up duties a* \ icar of Pohaugina. Mr. Ballinger, on behalf of the congregation of the mission, presented Mr Kempthorne with a suver communion service and set of linen afd wished him Rod-speed and everv success, in his new sphere. Dr Diamond Jcnness, son of Mr G. •'l'lmess, of Lower Hutt, is about to return home for a brief stay before resuming work with the Canadian Government. From an English University Dr Jenness went to study anthropology among the wildest tribes of the Pacific Islands, then he went to the Arctic with Stefansson to study the Eskimos He. had been two years with the last-men-tioned people before he knew that the rest of the world was in a state of war. ; . On returning to civilisation he enlisted m the Canadian Army as a private, and is now under engagement to the Can*- , dian Government to write the result ot ; Ins experiences He is an "old boy" of \ Wellington College.