PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2514, 15 July 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

. \ • Dr. R. M.. Gunu/.of Carterton, who recently offered his, services' to the Defence authorities, went into camp at Tauherinikau oil Monday. His practice will; he carried on by Dr.vD. 6. Johnston in-liis abs'enco. Lieutenant F. S. Varnham (son of Mr. John Varnham; Chief Clerk of the Wellington -Education Board), who wont awiy with'the 4th Reinforcements, has . been promoted, to the! position of Quartermaster of the New Zealand Infantry Base Details, Zeitoun Camp, tinder Captain Wilkinson, also of Wellington.. Ho has taken the place of .Captain Sanderson, who has been granted sick, leave. - " - .. Mr. M. Juriss, formerly a sergeant in the Permanent Force, and who has been known to many in Wellington as an oxpert in physical culture and an authority on drill, .being unable to obtain ah ; appointment in the New Zealand forces, leaves for England to-day :to offer' his" . services tb the War Offico authorities, in London, cither .to go tt> the front, as an instructor or to work in a munitions factory. Mr: Juriss, who has been • acting as drill instructor ,to 'the Wel- ~. lington Central- section of the National Reserve, was: last evening presented with :an initialled travelling rug as a token of tho osteem in which he is held. Mrs. Porcy Carter, L.A.8., A.T.C.L., has been engaged to sing the soprano solos, in tho Wellington Musical Union's performance of. "Hiawatha" next Tuesday; Mrs. Carter is a gifted young Australian .vocalistshe■■ resided .. for some . years in the Wairarapa, and • was a student at St: Bride's Convent, subsequently with Spencer Lorraine in Wellington, .and alter with Edouai'd Darewski in London. 1 ■ Mr. Hugo Friedlander, of Asliburton', has- been reappointed chairman of the Dates Committee of .the New Zealand Racing Conference. . Private J. A. Moore, of Hastings, is 'dangerously ill in the Palmerston North Hospital. The following volunteers leave. Napier this morning for Palmerston . North, and will be attached ,as drivers •to the Army Sorvice Corps Vivian Walter Cox and Fred.\Smitli" (Napier), D. H. Evans, W. G. Feiran, J. Onyon, L. A. Pettit,' G: Pollock, T. W. Slingshy, and C. T. Smith (Gisborne)./ ' .Cabled news has been received that Lieutenant John Cliristto, brother of Mrs. (Dr.) Hagen, of Westport, is dangerously ill at Cairo; Lieutenant Christie went through tlio Boer TWar without. receiving a scratch) but in the present'war he has been wounded, .returned to the front; invalided, and is , ,«.ow reported .to bo dangerously ill.