PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2579, 29 September 1915, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

'Arclibishop Rechvood : of Wellington, presided at the laying of the foundation stone", of a. new Catholic .Presbytery at Fairlie..(Canterbury);on Sunday. Mr. W. ,T. Hildreth ' lias been appointed: to fill tli©: vacancy on the Wellington Harbour Board caused, by. ( tlio retirement of Captain D. J. Watson. The appointment was made by the Gov-ernor-m-Councii in ' accordance with powers vested in him,' under the Act. Mr, Hildreth will therefore be tlie representative !for the 1 Hutt and Makara' counties "and suburbs on the board. He was a Government appointee on. the last .Harbour Board. . A cablegram.,received .by Mr/ F.. J. W. Fear, of Willis Street, Wellington, states that his eldest son, La'nce-Cor-ppral Bert Fear, D.S.M., is at present lying in King George's Hospital,_ London. suffering :irom . six wounds in his leg," hut 'adds, that he is improving, steadily. * The official flag l of the Wellington Harbour Board was floiyn at half-mast yesterday out of respect to the memory of the late Mr. A. Malmberg, a storeman, who had been in,the ejnploy of the hoard for twenty-two years. Mr. Malmberg has been ailing for some time past. He leaves a, widow, but no children- . Mr. ■0. E. Wyett,' of Messrs. Wyettr and Delatour, dentists, is leaving on a trip to the Old Country, next month. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Wyett. Sergeant Strickland i who will be leaving with the Seventh' Reinforcements, is very well. known in musical circles in Wellington. He was a,, member of the Wellington. Municipal' Orchestra, and was formerly a member of the Wellington Savage Club., Sergeant Strickland's brother-in-law, Mr. Horace Hunt, lias been a. prisoner in Germany ever since the war broke out. Mi'. R. S. F. Craig, brother of the Rev. J. Craig, of Fairlie, and 0110 of the best known dentists ■in the Taranaki district, is leaving New Zealand next month with the Seventh Reinforcements in a professional: capacity. Colonel Porter, C.8., 'was ft passenger by the Paloona. to Cisborne yesterday on urgent private business. Chaplain Captain Dore, who was recently wounded in Gallipoli, and was subsequently invalided to England, is now at the Military Hospital at Devonport (England), where ho is 'progressing slowly. . . The death' has occurred at Ma'stertonof Mr. Thomas Hughan, third son of tho late Mr. Thomas Hughan, for many years Crown Lands "Ranger for Otago. ,The remains of the deceased have been taken to Dunedin for interment. Mr. W. G. Holdsworth, who has been superintendent of the Courtenay Place Congregational Sunday School for 35 years, is retiring, and at the annual meeting of the scliool'last evening several tributes to his good'work were recorded and a presentation was made by tile Rev. A'. E. Hunt. .