PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2507, 7 July 1915, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Walter Buchanan (Wairarapa ward) and Mr. William Allan (City ward) lave been re-elected members of the, Wellington Education: Board with- ,4 out opposition. There will be a contest ' in connection with the Hutt-Horowhe-uua ward, the return of Mr. . John ' Kebbell, the retiring member, being opposed by Mr. D. M. Yeats, formerly; headmaster of the Lower Hutt School.' Dr. R'. H. Makgill, • who „was given leave of absence from the position of District IJealth Officer at Auckland, has arrived in London. - Dr. Makgill has been detailed for special work m the Chemistry Department of the Wait Office with his uncle, Dr. J. S. Haldane, F.R.S. Sir Henniker Heaton a son of thei late Sir John Henniker Heaton (tho apostle of penny postage) has been appointed second: lieutenant in the Welsh' Horse. Mr.'C. P. Skerrett, K. 0., has been elected a vice-president of the Wellington Racing Club, vice Mr. J. H. B. Coates,' resigned. ~ Dr. Appleyard, formerly medical officer of the Easteftr Extension Company's cable steamer .Patrol, arrived, from Sydney by the Manuki last evening. Dr. and Mrs. Simmers were alsd passengers by tho sam& steamer. .The funeral of the late Private Archi- - bald Lionel Smith Badger,, of Christchurch, took place at Karori Cemeteryj yesterday morning, Chaplain-Captain .Walker officiating. Deceased, was 22 ■, years of age. His mother and six brothers were present at the graveside. The funeral was conducted with full military i honours, and) the Trentham'Band played "Rock of Ages". as-the coffin was lowered into ths grave. Dr. G. G. Kenny, of Te Aroha, has 1 ' just received news from Home of the 'further loss of near relatives. ! His. family has now lost seven members in the war, as followLieut.-Commander Henry Parny Rennick, who went down:' in H.M.S. Hogue when she was torpedoed in August; Captain Bertram . Lawrence, West Yorkshire Regiment, j killed in France; Captain Bertram Byers,- badly . woundedby a bursting' bomb ; Captain, Stanhope Kenny, killed in action at Neuve, phawlle on March 10; Lieutenant Hamish Pender, Gordon Highlanders, killed: in action at Neuya Chapelle; Colonel Frank "Rennick, 40th Pathans, killed in action in April; and Lieutenant Lester Wallaki, killed in aotion August 18. . ■ . , At present the. pulpit of the Vivian; Street Baptist Church is being filled byi relief ministers. Next mtnth the Rev. Archibald Brown, who has for- many, years' .been connected with' the: East London' Tabernacle, will visit New Zeai land, in the course of a thd: world, and arrangements have , already! been made with liim to supply for a few months at Vivian Street, possibly, it is hoped, for half a year. ■ Gabled advice has-been received in Wellington, by Mr.*R. D. Maoleod, of tho Audit Department, from -his son, Private N. K. Macleod, who left New > Zealand with the Main Expeditionary,. Force, and is now In the trenches on' the Gallipoli Peninsula, etating that he is quite well. . , The services cf Sir. Joseph Blaschcck, the'popular entertainer, have been engaged by His Excellency the Governor : for the entertainment he is to'give the staff of the ' Hospital Ship Maheno at' Government House* to-morrow evening. •- Mr. E. H. Williams left Hastings jw '; terday morning for Wellington. , Constable Doggett, who has teen the "' mounted policeman at Blenheim for some time, has been appointed to the charge of the Pongaroa station, in sue- , cession io the late Conatable_Fraser. It will be about a weelf or ten days before Constable Doggett takes up his new. duties. . . ' • Mr. King, of Sydney,.of the firm of' Mitchell and King, contractors, who at one time did a good deal of building ■work in this City, arrived from Sydney, iby the Manuka last evening, . . Lieutenants Brown and Hinton, _whd; have been undergoing a course of in-, struetion at the Duntroon_Militery College, in Australia, returned to Isew Ziea-i land last evening by the Manuka. ]Vlr. F. E. N. Gaudin and Mr. M. M. • M'Callum, of Auckland, are at present visitin" Wellington in connection with . the Gaudin case. They occupied seats in the Speaker's Gallery m the House yesterday afternoon. Mr. Gaudin, who is in the Reserve of Officers with the ranji of captain, lately had his oommis- ; sion returned to him. , Mi;. John Hunter, who has been a' £ resident of Masterton for a number of years,,and who contested the Mayoralty., in April last, is leaving, tee shortly, to take, up liis residenco in Wellington. Aj; autograph album, signed - by- Lady. Liverircol, members of ParHa-cient, and others, was offered at auctiou at a juvenile entertainment in Masterton, on Monday night, and realised a sum ot £62 10s. .