PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Rev. A. M. Johnson, vicar of St. ; Pad's, and Mrs. Johnson, who have beon visiting England, left London recently in the Indrabarah on their return journey. Mr. J. E. Lane and Mr. P., J. Bancroft have been. appointed;.to. the Hawke's Bay Licensing Committee, vice Mr. W.H.'Lane, deceased, and Mr. B. 0. M'Cormick, resigned. Dr. J. S. Reekie has been appointed medical officer to the Waikeria Prison at Te Awamutu'. .' ' On the eve of his approaching marriage, Mr. W. H. Pollock, president of the Wellington Harriers' Club, was the recipient of a very handsome cut-glass table centre.' Mr. W. H. Bennett, vice-president of the club, in voicing the sentiments of the members, wished Mr. Pollock every happiness and prosperity. According to a "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Service cable message received last evening, Lister Donne, son of Mr. T. E. Donne, of the New Zealand Office, has joined the New Zealand contingent forming in London to make, good the deficiencies caused by illness and accident in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Captain G. W. Braddell, Officer Commanding Area Group 7a (Masterfcon) and' Mrs. Braddell are on a' visit to Wellington. The funeral of the late Mr. James Kilminster, who died from injuries received in a railway accident on Tuesday, took place yesterday afternoon, and wao largely attended. The service at the graveside was conducted by the Rev. Mr Gibson. The deceased gentleman was born in Wellington 63 years ago. His early home was where the present wireless station on Tinakori Hills stands, and for some years he farmed there, and later he removed to- the Hutt -Valley. The appointment of Mr. G. T. B. Smallbone 'as Deputy-Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages at Dannevirke is gazetted. A pleasing ceremony took place yesterday when members of Nos. 80 and 35 Companies Wellington Technical College Cadets presented Lieutenant L. W. Hugo, who is leaving with the Expeditionary Force,' with a. silver wristlet watch.' All the commissioned ; officers of this cadet company 'aro now serving with the / Espeditionary Force, so the presentation fell to Colour-Sergeant C. Crane, who is now the senior officer of the company. The death is announced of Mr. Thomas North, another of Wellington's old, identities. He was born at Jones Hill, New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, on February 6, 1827. In his youth ho went to sea, and became chief officer of the ship Abby Doubrody, and wsvs engaged in the year 1848, at the time of ttie great famine in Ireland, carrying emigrants 'to New York and other parts of America. Afterwards he became, master of the Bame ship. Arriving in Melbourne in the ship. Maga-Polla, he,was struck with the gold fever, and was prosent at the big rushes at Bondigo. In 1854 he arrived in Wellington, and was for a number of years connected with the Panama Shipping Company as their stevedore. Retiring from this" company, he became owner and proprietor of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Tory Street. A family of live sons and two daughters survive him. A portrait of Sergeant Keith Harrison, George, of the Australian Expeditionary Force, appears in the Melbourne "Argus" of September 14. Sergeant George, who is in the Second Field Artillery Brigade, is the second son of Mr. W. H. George, chairman of Georges' Ltd., Melbourne. He was educated at Nelson College, New Zealand, and after leaving school for some years engaged in business pursuits in the Dominion. About twelvo months ago he became one of tho principal shareholders, and assumed ail aotive part in tho management of the Melbourne company. Upon the declaration of war he immediately volunteered in the' ranks of the -field artillery, in which branch of tho service he has already had several years' training as a volunteer in tho "D" Battery in Wellington, Now Zealand.

It is reported that three contracts have Leon let for tho metalling of tho Government road formed last summer through the Mangatainoka Block, which was opened for settlement tho previous; winter.