PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2365, 22 January 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dr. Basil 'Adams, the newly-appointed raedioal tuberculosis offioar for the Wel- > lington Hospital, is due to arrive in Wellington in Maroh next. Dr. Adams will' have charge of the Otaki Hospitul, and the tuberoulosis dispensary at the general hospital. CJaptain Charles Patterson, of the. , Twentieth Lancashire Fusiliers, a native . of Melbourne, died in Leeds military hospital, states a Press Association Cablegram from London. The resignations of. Dr. T. Mathie6on (house and Senior Nurses M. Craigio, G. L. Faulke, and Werder were received at 'yesterday's meeting of the Hospital Board. . Mr. P. C. Corliss,' head of the Deeds Department,, is on ,an offioial visit to Napier. . - - Nurse Ethel Jjewis, who is engaged iu work at the front (on a hospital transport), has been granted further ■ leave of absence by. the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Nurse Lewis was formerly the: Native health .nurse at Otaki, in which district , she is well known. , The appointment of Mr. Geo. Hogbenj 0.M.G., as Director of Education, is gazetted. Mr. Alfred Deakin, about whose appointment as Commonwealth' representative at the Panama Exposition there has been some controversy, sailed for San Franoisoo from Sydney by the Niagara yesterday. : ,"\- ! Mr. Hugh tWiitoombe, of Messrs. Whiteombe and Tombs (Ltd.), has arrived to take charge of the Ann's business in Dunedln. Mr. Louis :Whiteombe will return to Wellington in the course , of a few days. Mr, William John Atkinson, who h&t recently been In business at Feildixjg as an aooountant, died at Masterton on " Wednesday from heart failure. He was only twenty-nine years,of age.' *■ Mr. J. 0. Cooper has been appointed ' first offloer of the Maaterton. qivision , of tho St. John Ariibularicb t Brigade. ! Tho division - has decided <to .donate a bed to the proposed Trontham Hospital. iTh'e appointment gazetted of Mr. • E. R. de L. Lean as registrar of births, deaths, and 1 marriages at Woodville. Private Henry Charles Rayfield, of the Canterbury Infantry Battalion with themain Expeditionary Force at Egypt, whose death from pneumonia- occurred ■ on. January 15, was well known in Christchurch... He; was twenty-seven years of age, and was of a sturdy, athletic build, and when volunteers .were called'for.he was one of the first to enlist'. He was tho eldest son of' Mr. and Mrs. Rayfield, of 40 Carlton Street, Merivale, and formerly of 'Trafalgar Street. St. Albans.. ■ Before joining the Expeditionary he' was - employed as. a conductor on the Christchurch tramways. He;enjoyedperfect health right up to the time of leaving New Zealand, haying had hardly a day's illness in Ms life, and his death from pneurnonia has come as a great shock to his parents and friends. . ; Mr. G, S. Barker; Hamilton's oldest resident, celebrated his 99th birthday on Monday evening with a ! gathering of friends. ~ , " . ' : . "kw.kfog through the English papers, for news of the Rugby men who have' gone to the front,'! says ,a >southern . writer, "I came across an article in- . spired by tho number of famous footballers who have sacrificed, their lives for their country. The writer, the .wellknown , 'W.L.8.,' has something interesting to say concerning a player who . will be remembered in Duriedin, BedellSmight, captain of the British Rugby . team which toured New Zealand in 1904. ; 'Bedell-Srvright; had not gone to'the front when tho mail left, but probably is . among those who are in training for the new' army, whioh is to be let loose in ....,. "W.L ; S.'| states that D. R. < Bedell-Sivnght is remembered the> world 1 over as a great forward. Hs opponents < may. not mention that his methods were I of kid-glove order—in all probability they will apply'adjectives other • than 1 . 'forcible' and 'hefty' to his (tactics, but ' they, will grant the courage and skill i of the man." Mr. J. B. Clarkson • leaves tb-day by : tho Manuka for Sydney, "and ho,'will I 3 spend-six or seven weeks in Australia •; on the business of his. firm. : He will probably motor from Sydney to Melbourne and Adelaide, and return /to New : Zealand via Launceston and .Tasmania;