PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2540, 14 August 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. 'AV M/ Myers, Minister of •Customs and Munitions, left Wellington for Auckland yesterday afternoon, and arrives back in Wellington on Mon- , day afternoon. N Sir. Myers'will not receive, any (deputations or deal-with public: business, tho visit_ being purely a private one in connection with the serious illness of his brother-in-law, Mr. William Coleman, the well-known 'solicitor, of Auckland, Mr. J. Burnett, late chief engineer "of t'lio New Zealand Railways, will leave .Wellington for London by the Ruahino to-day.. Mrs. and Miss I). A. Burnett ■.will accompany Mr. Burnett. . Mr. S. Gilmer, of Wellington, leaves for London by the Ruahine to-day. , Mr. W. White, secretary of the Napier Fire Brigade, has just recoived his I 22 years' service bar. I ■ Mr. J. H. Sheath has been re-elected chairman of the Hawke's Bay. Educar tion Board. • Mr. C. K. Wilson, formerly member for Taumarumu, is visiting Wellington. ■ Mr. Fred. C. of Sydney, arrived'in Wellington from San Francisco /on Thursday. Mr. Groves is assistant superintendent of the Now.South Wales Tourist Department, and he is on his way homo from the Panama Exposition. He is at present in Christchurch, but does not ptvposo to stay, long in Now Zealand. Dr. A. W. Averill, Anglican Bishop of [Auckland, is visiting Taranaki. Ho /will return to Auckland towards the end of tho month. . Mr. G. J. Garland has been elected . chairman of. the Auokland Education .Board for the sixth time.' •

i "Following tho sad news of the death j from enteric fever at the Military Hos- '■ pitalj Malta, of that lino young University forward, Tom Dennison, conies the equally sad intelligence of the death, <ilso from enteric, of Harold Childs, the University footballer, and 011G of tho bast back's of Otago," writes the Rugby contributor of the "Otago Daily Times." I "'Harold- Child's came to the Otago TJnii versity from Wellington College, where he was couched in football by an old Otago master, Mr. T. Brodie, who thought highly of liis qualifications. In his first year with the Otago University \team, Childs justified the promise of his college days, and developed into one of , the finest all-round backs the Royal lilr.es ever possessed: He visited Australia in 1912 with the combined New Zealand University team, and was regarded by the critics as one -of _tho poiindest backs in that good combination. Childs won his representative cap in 1012, but ia 1913 an illness kept him out of the game in_ the height of the season. The following year the war broke out, and Oliilds joined the Third Reinforcements. 111 Egypt with another well-known University player (Sergeant Pilling) Childs joined the First Neiv Zealand Contingent for the front, and took part in the fighting at tho landing at Gallipoli. He wounded itt tiliis action, and was sent'to Alexandria. .■His chief concern-then was to got back 7to the front, and it was when on his '•way to the firing lino for tho second Airne that lie was'seized with enteric, jSrom- ivliicli ho succumbed."-