PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16422, 16 January 1919, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mr H. X>. Heather has been appointed honorary Japanese Consul for Auckland. Mr M. B. Peat, head bill clerk in the Auckland branch of the National Bank, has been, appointed manager of the Paparoa branch of the bank. le Captain J. W*. Langridge, a Main Body man, who returned with of tho recent drafts, arrived in Christ--16 church yesterday. . Mr Alf. Linley, tho well-known Wellington theatrical agent, is at present )f .in Christchurch on business connected! LO with the screening of the film "The Man who Stayed at Home." ir Mr S. Hamilton, inspector of permanent ways in South Otago, with headquarters at Milton during the past 13 T years, has left to take a similar position e on the railway at Oamaru. Tho Rev. Doan Hyland, of Rangiora, ,r has gone to Dunedin, to be present at 6 the Month's-Mind of the late Bishop Verdon, and also to take part in the selection' of his successor. Mr Lionel Margoliouth, formerly of i Napier, who has been in the South BriI tish Insurance Company, Ltd., in Bombay for the past twelve years, has been appointed manager at Singapore. Cabled advice has been received in e Hastings that the condition of the Hon. ;t A. L. D. Fraser, M.L.C., who has been , r in Sydney for a considerable time, is i_ again very serious. c It is understood (says the "Nelson ° Mail") that Mr T. Brook, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Westland, will buo- - ceed the late Mr F. A. Thompson as 1 -.Commissioner' for the Nelson Land Dis- , trict. Mr John Robertson, school inspector, g of Otago, who enlisted three years ago as a private, and on reaching Egypt 0 volunteered for the Camel Corps, has been appointed Assistant Diroctor of _ Education at Cairo, with the rank of j major. Mr H. Fj. Pacey, who has been general manager of the New Zealand Dairy * Association for the past four years, has b resigned that position. He is acquiring - an interest in another businoss, his 1 mam reason for doing so being medical f advice that he must have change and j less arduous occupation. Mr E. H. Cavell, who for the past thirteen years has been accountant at i Gordon and Gotch Pty., Ltd., Welling- , ton, was recently the recipient of - a handsome presentation from the "VVelt lington staff, on the occasion of his departure for Dunedin to take up the duties of manager for the South Island branches. News has been received by Mrs "NY. B.' Cooke, of Karori road, "Wellington, that her husband, Second-Lieutenant | W. B. Cooke, M.M., has been awarded the Military Cross. Second-Lieutenant ! Cooke left New Zealand with the Main Body as a private. He won the Mili- | tary Medal for gallantry at Gallipoli, i and later received the Dar to the medal for good work on the Somme. He is tho j eldest son of Mrs J. Cooke, of Linwood. Lieutenant R. H. Baigent, R.N.R., i returned to Nelson a few days ago. Lieutenant Baigent left New Zealand in 1914, and joined the Royal Air Force. Ho then transferred to the naval sorvice, and was on a patrol boat in the North Sea. He subsequently transferred to the underseas craft and served on three submarines in various theatres of war. He has experienced many exciting adventures during his four years of service. ! Major Randall "Woodhouse has been awarded a second bar to the Military Cross that he gained in 1916, the first bar having been awarded a year ago. Major "Woodhouse, who is an old Otago High School boy, and a graduate of Otago University, has been on active service in France throughout the whole period of the war (telegraphs our Dunedin correspondent). He joined the R.A.M.C. in London, where he was preparing to sit for his F.R.C.S., crossing to France in the-middle of August, 1914, and was with a field ambulance following up the retreating" Germans when the armistice was signed. During that period he has been three times wounded, and once slightly gassed. The funeral of the late Private Henri Meihana, 10th Reinforcements, Pioneer Battalion, took place at Tuahiwi on Tuesday afternoon. Private Meihana "had been invalided home some months ago, and remained till his death a patient of the Christchurch Hospital. Tho burial service was read at St. Stephen's Church in the pa by the Rev. G. W. Harding. The funeral, being a j military one, was attended by a firing : party from Rangiora, assisted by several i returned Pioneers, and at the graveside they paid tho usual tribute to their < departed comrade. Great sympathy is i felt for the boy's parents, this being : their second great sacrifice within two < months. Amongst those present was i Sergeant Robin Flutey, M.M., one of the few Maoris who have gained honour s 1 in the field. ] Lieutenant Henry S. Baker, of the ( Australian imperial Force and a former * resident in New Zealand, has been £ awarded the D.S.O. for notable work in J connexion with recent fighting in 1 France. He is the fourth son of the 1 Rev. Sidney J. Baker, who was Congre- 1 gational minister in Christchurch and * Palmerston North before removing to 1 Tasmania eleven years ago. Lieutenant t Baker matriculated when at the Palmerston North High School. He en- < tered the profession of journalism in I Hobart ana studied law at the Tas- i | manian University, graduating LL.M. t early in 1915. He enlisted in the v A.M.C. on the day of receiving his de- a gree and saw much service in Egypt v and France as a warrant officer. In b 1917 he was transferred to the infantry c and gained his commission after a train- Ji ing course at Queen's College, Cam- I bridge. On returning to France he was c posted to the 13th Battalion, A.1.F., n and soon afterwards won his second t star. He was recommended for the Military Cross three times. 6