PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2384, 13 February 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

' Their Excellencies the Earl and Countess of Liverpool returned to Wellington - from'Cliristehurch yesterday niorningi Tljo Richi Son.- W. F. Massey, Primo Minister, .returned from Auckland yesterday afternoon. - The Hon. W. H. Horries left Tau■ranKa yesterday morning en route to . .'Wellington. Ho should arrivo hero tofaiorrow morning. Mr. F. M. B. Fisher has returned to Wellington, from his holiday in Hawke's 'i-Bay. .. . ' \ : L . The Rev. .Canbn Garland left yesterday by the Manuka for Sydney on a /holiday trip. ■ \ Mr. Leo M. Myers, late of Auckland, and now residing in London, has enlisted as a private in the Sportsman' " Battalion, which is attached to the 'Royal Fusiliers. The battalion, which )takes recruits from 19 to 45' years of . .age, is under the command cf Colonel ' (Paget, and is: now encamped and undergoing drill prior to departure for ithe. front. Mr. W. T. Wickham, British Trade Commissioner, is at present visiting the South Island. .1 . The temporary rank of major has ( been granted to Captain Hector Gow- ' >ans Reid, Army Service Corps, while Employed with the., New Zealand Expeditionary Force.' Captain Redmond Neill, Reserve of Officers, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers), has been f granted the local rank of major while ; employed with the New Zealand Reiniforcements. Lieutenant Eric Hamilton vßeamish, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles, has been granted the temporary rank of captain while employed with tho 3rd Reinforcements, but ne reverts to the rank of'lieutenantupon joining the Expeditionary Force. .The following temporary appointments ;have been approved by the damp Comimandant (Lieut.-Colonel H. R. Potter) : ("A" Squadron 3rd ReinforcementsCorporal E. L. Jones, to be sergeant; •Lance-Corporal S. M. James, to be cor•poral; Trooper G. H. Smith, to be 'lance-corporal; Corporal M. Innis- . (Jones, to be lance-sergeant. '

V Mr. John Roberton. son of Dr. Ern•est Roberton, of Auckland, and q former pupil of King's. College, has been Iposted to a commission as second lieu- | tenant in the 9th Service Battalion of } Gordon Highlanders', and,, by latest jariail advices, was proceeding to the military college at Camberley for preliminary training. He ■ was top of the 'sixth form at King's College m .1911, and since then has been at Emanuel College, Cambridge. For /two years previous to the war he was a member of the Cambridge'"University troop of King Edward's Horse. His younger brother, ■ Jaines Roberton, who left King's College, in March last, is still . serving with King, Edward's Horse. :

Mr. J. D. Dinneen, 8.A., of Remu•era, who has been a member of the 'Auckland Grammar School ■ staff for ,'some years, left Wellington on ThursVday by the steamer llemuera for Eng- , land with the intention of studying for a pilot's certificate in aviation and qualifying himself*for service in the military wing of the' Royal Flying Corps. . :

Dr. C.'"E. Maguire, medical snperin.tendent of .the Auckland District ,Hos•pital,, who was recently granted oneyear's leave of absence, having volunteered for. service at the front, is >expected to arrive at the Trentham camp an' Tuesday next. Dr. Maguire, having been attached to the troops in Southern Algeria for about fivo years,' where he 6aw active service, felt it to be his duty under the circumstances to j place his services at the disposal of the i. Government., Dr. A ; M'Gregor Grant, "of the resident medical staff, will act as medical superintendent during : Dr. Maguire's absence. •