IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 548, 1 July 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL SERVICE MEDAL.

, ran FpsT awarded in new Zealand. . sergt.-major cheistie the 1 , | , RECIPIENT, !\5..i ' 'nvti ■ -Private Secretary to • - > n E^I ! onc^#°-P/) Vernor :(now: nt theVC'ook Gfonp) has received 'a cable message far Lord Plunset from Lold Gtwe, Societaly of State tho. Colonics to the fpliowicg vi *'It gives me 'great pltasmo to inform ;t you,, that Bis Majesty , ther King-has been ' - ?rwJs«Bly pleased to approve of the grant,inz of the Imponal service medal to Walter varißtie. t ' a J, ter Christie is noil known in Wellington. For l the past forty,years he has been foreman of the Defence Stores m, Buckle < Street, during thirty of which lie was Sergt- , , Major of the 1 D Battery, in Milch ho still • '?° ld » n n honorary position. ' Ho folight in the Maori War iti the New Zealand ]sefend« , ±ofce, and was second Mn command lat the Chataam Islands during 'the 1 time the notori- < ous To Kooti was banished to that ocean-woin ! group/ Last year Mr Christie retired froin the seivice on sUpeiannuation, and at the piesent time he is loviving memories Of tho Old CorniK'n i 016 ln ' aun ,S ha nn 'l Mr. Tingoy, ot Wellington, nero deputed to wait on Lord . Roberts (patron of the NoA Zealand Veterans' Association), and piesent lnm with the gold »ofthe association. It is Undoistood that , 'w L t '' n P°rial Seivice medal of tho i.■ "■■ tolMl e?er : granted to a . MeW Zealander.-' ■ 1 ''