PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15870, 9 April 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Information has been received in Masterton that Lieutenant-Colonel Hart, of Carterton, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General. Private advice has been received that Captain D. E. Wood, of the Canterbury Mounteds, has again been wounded — this time in the foot. Mrs C. W. F. Lucas, Ashburton, received word that her husband, SergtT Lucas, has been admitted to Codford Depot Hospital. The Hon. Arthur M. Myers, ActingMinister of Finance, arrived in Christchurch vesterday, and leaves to-day for the South. , Mr Myers will return to Ohristchurch at the end of the weekMr E. W. Sofield, who has been licensee of several local hotels, and is well-known in bowling circles, leaves to-morrow for Palmerston North, having been appointed manager of tho Manawatti Club.

Tho Defence Department advises that L.-Sergt. G. Parker, of the A.S.C. (Permanent Establishment) died in Wellington Hospital on Thursday afternoon, tho certified cause of death being "malignant neck."

Dr. Kenneth McKenzie and Dr. C. J. Rossiter (says tho "New Zealand Herald") havo volunteered for service at the front, in response to an appeal for more military doctors by Surgeon{Joneral 11. S. F. Henderson. They havo applied to the Hospital B9ard to be relieved of duty at tho hospital.

\ verv well-known commercial traveller—Mr J. S. Brown, traveller for English paper manufacturers and printing machinery—is reported to have died when a prisoner of war m Germany on January 7th last. He went to the front with one of tho Australian drafts last year.

Second-Lieutenant Neil C. McLean, Riflo Brigade, whose promotion to the rank of junior subaltern m tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force was reported last week, is a son of Mr Murdoch McLean, Mayor of Mount Albert, Auckland. He left New Zealand in Oc. tober, 1915. and has been promoted from tho ranks to a commission. Lance-Corporal John Mason (late of Messrs Guy, Mason, and Oram, of Pal- ! uicrston North, and now attached to ! the Now Zealand Ambulance in Egypt) recentlv won a chess championship over I there. *in which English and colonial soldiers wero competing. Lance-Corporal Mason at one time held, tho New Zealand chess championship, and on two occasions was runner-up. When it camo to tho war, Mr Mason knew what was tho right "move,." and he left a lucrative legal practice to put on khaki (says tho "Manawatu Times"). Thero are now four brothers in nniftprm —ono ; wounded in France —and ft sister, out j nursina.