Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17118, 13 April 1921, Page 7

Personal Items.

.. 0 B Pemberton, secretary of the i Mid P Association, who Has been an ' With 'tour in tho North Island returned to Christchurch yesterday. £ Mr Fred Lock, acting manager of tho ' branch of Hallenstem Bros, has , jSKd"notice of his transfer to the ," Auckland branch. Vnfos of condolence v.ith the rekjirts of tho late Mr'W. H. Buss and w™H Lightband were passed, memw* standing, at Inst night's 'meeting' of the Co«ncil of the Canterbury Automobile Association. - ijeuicnant C B. Graham-Watson, u. was a midshipman in H.M.S. New Ljand during her world cruise in 1913 £rf who served most of the warm dertrtyers, hns been appointed to H.M.S. flow as Flag Lieutenant to Rear-Ad-nriral Sir 'Walter Cowan, commanding tk" battle-cruiser Force. in influential deputation of citizens rtaresenting business interests and „#ts bodies waited upon Mr George tTpayno yesterday and requested him ■ fi accept nomination for a seat on ttfe fifty Council. After consideration arid iding thanked tho deputation, Mr ftyne intimated that he must rehict- , decline nomination as ho hod al'reMV made arrangements for an ex'tftiaed tour of Australia and tho East. 5 M» H. B. Horsbrugh, of Fcatberf'fob, has received advice that her bro-sSiJjr-has been' promoted to the rank of jjjjSor-General, and is stationed at Del%s! Jfnjor-Gencral S. R. Davidson,, W().5f.0 i> s » son °f tne l ate Major-Gen-ft?«l A. G. Davidson. He was,born in 6 JMfe in 1860, and came to New Zea-"f-t&nft with his father, when the latter ivfeok the position of Commandant of fe UK $ Zealand forces, and finished his JtflttCation at Nelson College. He was %,&& of the two successful candidates in for admission into the ii fijian' Army. Tho other was a son of 4 MHon. Colonel Baillie, M.L.C. At mS, |k Outbreak of-the Great War General ,' x\stn<laan held the rank of Major in the £s&, Sikhs, and went to France with •'ipjjj regiment. When the Indian troops ' n TfW?CTit up-in the fipritinpr in' Northern the Sikhs-suffered badly, and ■= r'ifjiigufll Davidson • earned great praise. jjSffiijiition in dispatches, for the cool r jro'skilful manner in which—liis senior efffep having fallen—he rallied the Ini diwi-troops and brought them out. of tsf*A in ornVrlv array. Later, when ■JliiHildinu Brio-no"© v.'n.t withdrawn from ' KfAnce, General TH.virUon was nlaeed "in i oomififtTirl jis Britrndier-Genern.i. and |3h{ with.t.hp Indian troops to Mp'<vvJjHhotW in' , .t,lie' , ls'»nTiT«t*B r*" r *'«i. 'N* Wimty ™ A Woys CnTln<re v-W Sffijk^njefl* 7 ' tp lenVn „f t), ft miecessful M*Wer of tftejr oM roVWe.mate. *