PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. S. G. Smith, M.P., arrived in New Plymouth last night. Mr. Harry Dearth and the members of his concert company arrived in New Plymouth yesterday and are staying at the While Hart Hotel. Sir William Ellison-Macartney, Governor of West Australia, will proceed to England early next year on urgent private business. It is understood he will not return.

Mr. W. A. Rennell, accountant at the Bank of New Zealand, New Plymouth, has received notice of his appointment to the position of manager of the bank at Levuka, and leaves about the 18th. Mr. H. R. Bloxam, who has been on the local staff for some years past, succeeds Mr. Rennell as accountant here.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Dookrill yesterday received a cable message stating that their son, Captain J. S. (Jack) Dockrill was returning by the Bremen. It is nearly ten years since he left New Plymouth to pursue his medical studies at Dublin, where ho eventually graduated. He subsequently joined the Army Medical service and saw much service during the war. The news of his return will be welcomed by a large circle of friends.

The Government Statistician, Mr Malcolm Fraser, is to represent the Dominion ,it the Imperial Conference of Statisticians to he held in London next January. During Mr. Frascr's absence Mr. -T. W. Butcher, Chief Compiler of the Census and Statistics Office, will be acting-Government Statistician. —Press Association.

Among the passengers on the Makura, which arrived at Auckland from Vancouver recently was a Canadian naval hero, Lieut.-Commandcr Bourke, V.C., D.S 0., Legion d'Honneiir. Lieut. Bourke and Mrs. Bourke have come to New Zealand from British Columbia, where, in times of peace, they liav§ a fruit farm, to spend an extended holiday, and possibly to settle in this hemisphere (states the Auckland Star). Lieut. Bourke has seen three years' service in the U.N.V.R , of which the last year was spent in Dover, in command of a submarine "chaser." A Gamete notice supplied information as to the .raison d'etre of his decorations- His D.S 0. is the result of a plucky rescue of 3S officers and men from H.M.S. Brilliant, ona of the block ships that were sunk on the beach just outside Ostend, on April 23, 1017, while his V.C. can be traced to the saving of an officer and two men from the sunken Vindictive in the second attempt upon that port.