PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2553, 30 August 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Colonel, E. H. Hilev, Director of Railway Trauspart, lias been appointed Director of Camps and Barrack Construction.. He is attached to the Quarter-master-General's Department. Lieutenant-Colonel R. Ileaton Rhodes returned, to Wellington from Christ- :••••• .church ou Saturday morning. ' ■ The Ministcr-in-Charge of Hospitals • (the Hon, G. W. Rnssell) left Wellington. for. Auckland on .'.Saturday, in company, with the head of tho; .Department, Dr. Valintine. Mr. Russell is visiting Auckland, Hamilton, and Rotorua, to organise tho availablo -in ' hospital accommodation, ' skilled nurses, and volunteer women helpers, ... for tho .reception and . treatment ,of v. .wounded and .sick soldiers in. these districts. It.is intended that after the men become.convalescent as many as possible of them shall be sent to the • Sanatorium at Rotorua, in order to re- - store them to robust health as speedily as possible, and a. similar use is to'ho . v >. made of the Sanatorium at Hanmer. Mr. Russell intends: to mako an organising tour of the South Island after ho has. travelled the North Island; ' .The .many friends in. New Zealand of Bishop Cleary .will regret "to iearn that his condition continues far from satistory.; Archbishop Redwood announced at-the Basilica yesterday .that' he had received word "from, Sydney that as . the .. result of a consultation . on: Saturday ; the "doctors; had - decided. that a ■■second ' operation was necessary, and this will ; take place to-day. ' Mr./H. 1 J. Barnard, secretary of the Eltham Dairy Company, Was advised l on Saturday of the deith of his -son, Private Harry who left New Zealand as a member of the 3rd' Auckland Regiment with; the Main" Expeditionary . Fotce. The Barnard family is rendering* notable service, to the Empire. Out of eight sensj. tlieV five ■ who could get;.'away ; 'bayo -answered the call. : Private Janes Barnard is included in the Tahiti's wounded, jlo\v en route to New Zealand. Pri- , rate Frank Barnard left as a member of tho Army Service. Corps with the Main : Reinforcements, and Private ;•••• Joseph Barnard left here with the 6th Reinforcements, and still another son, Charles, is a member of the 2nd Battalion of the Trentham Regimont. . "At .'the. Supreme-Court on Saturday Mr. Harry vLawson was admitted as a solicitor by Mr. Justice Chapman, on the. motion of Mr. Arßlair. . Mr.'Peter Gordon, for many'years a resident of Masterton and To Whiti "districts, died somewhat suddenly on • Saturday evening from heart' failure. . Deceased, who was about 70 years of agej leaves a widow andgrown-up family. ; He was a prominent bowler and . _cx-member of the Masterton Bowling ; . Club.—Special correspondent.. :, : In the course of its annual report-the New, Zealand Academy . of. Fine ■ Arts states that "the council has with' deep •egret to record ,the death of Mr. John . N'cwton for many years a- member of the academy. By his will he bequeath- .' 3d three' pictures to the' permanent, col- .;. lection, a water-colour, "Mother and j. ••••Cluld;',':. . by. Miss Francos . Hodgkins, "Ihe'Adjutant Storks," by Garlick, and .an oil,"Monk's Head," • by Dattilo Rublw." Lieutenant-Colonel T., W. • M'Donald(a former Mayor of' Lower Hutt), who was recently invalided back from' Egypt, has been appointed general staff officer . for tho Otago Military District, a post : v/hich he; held before he left -with the • . Maiii Expeditionary Force for Egypt; Mr. \E. M„ Beechey,lately- solicitor in the City Solicitor's office, will join tho , staff of Messrs. ' Young and ' Tripe, this . neck. ... ■_ Mr. Louis Cohen, of Waaganui, has' been elected to the. council of the Dominion Bowling Association. Mr. George Duncan Sinclair, who died on,.Friday at Hataitai, was born forty-' :rane: years ago at Dimedin. He went to ■ sea, as 'a boy, but about eighteen" years .ago he joined tho Wellington Meat Ex- . port Company, in whose service' lie re- • . mained for a period of fourteen years. ■ He then resigned in order to take np the position of chief stevedore for tho Shaw, Savill, and; Albion Company in Wellington, and was four years with that company; ' Ho was respected by all who had business relations with him ■ -and.'by a largci circle'of friends. ■'/ Cable news has been received to' the effect that Mr. 0. E. Gallie, second youngest son of Mr. and Mrs; Jno. Gal-" lie, Wellington, has received his commisi sion in the Royal Field Artillery. Mr. , " Gallie received his military training in tho Wellington College Cadets, the' Mas- : terton Mounted Rifles, and a'*o served with the D Battery 111 Samoa. At tho outbreak'of'war he was on the staff of • ' Dalgety and Co. \ -