PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2601, 25 October 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. J. Allen went south on Saturday night to Dunedin, where ho will meet the wounded and sick soldiers returning to Port Chalmers to-morrow. The Hon. A. L. Herdman, the Hon. W. Fraser, and the Hon. G. W. Russell leave for the South Island tonight.

The Rev. F. T. Read, Methodist minister, Dunedin, has been appointed a chaplain on the hospital 6hip Mar am,i, to represent tho Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Congregational Churches. The Hon. W. H. Herries (Minister of Railways) returned to Wellington on Saturday from Tauranga.. Sir. George Munt, of Newtown, received a cable message on Saturday afternoon, informing him that his soil, Sapper R. A. Munt, who went away with tho Engineers of the Main Expeditionary Force, and w'ho was wounded on September 25, is making a rapid recovery in the Main Hospital at Malta. He was wounded in the head, exactly five months after ho landed at Gallipoli. ' Sapper Munt j expects to rego to England for a few weeks to recoup.

At the meeting of the Council of tho New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, held oh Friday evening feeling references were made about Mr. Frank Grady, who died suddenly on Wiursday evening last, and it was decided to forward a letter' of sympathy to Mr. Frank Grady, junr., who occupies a seat on the council, as representative of the Hawke's Bay Lnwn Tennis Association.

Mr. A. B. Beamish has accepted tho position of delegate for the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association on tlie Council of the Lawn Tennis Association of England, rice Mr. Anthony Wilding, deceased. Colonel Cosgrove, Dominion Chief Scout, visited Greytown on Saturday morning last, and met as many members of the local Boy Scout Committed as could make it convenient to meat him, and discussed matters appertaining to the scout movement. On Friday, Colonel .Cossgrove inspected tho Carterton troop of Boy Scouts. Advice was received in Wellington last night that Pte. Edgar Jones, second eldest son of Judge Jones, of Gisborne. had died from -wounds in-hospital at Rouen, France. Soon after the outbreak of war Pte. Jones went to England, and there joined the London Scottish Regiment. He had been at the front in France for about two months. A brother, Pte. Tom Jones, of the Publio Trust Office staff, Wellington,' is now in camp with the Trenthani Regiment at May' Morn.

Advice lias been received by Sirs. F. B. Smcdlcy, Park Terrace, Wellington, that lier'son. Lieutenant- Charlos F. Smcdley, of the Mounted Rifles, Main Expeditionary Force, who was invalided to England in. August last', after service at the Dardanelles, is now convalescent, and making good progress. Mr. and Mrs. George Ross, of Bolton Street, have received advice that their son-in-law, M. Paul Martin, adjutant of the 121 st Battalion of Foot Chasseurs, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre, with palm, for brilliant conduct at tho attack on Schratzmannelle, when, at night, he went in. advance of tho lines, under heavy fire, to recover the body of his captain, wlio had been, killed during that da-y. Islv. T. A. Turnbull, a popular member of the Commercial Travellers' Club, who is leaving for Christcliurch, was entertained on Saturday by his fellowmembers. Mr. George Pine, president of the club, was in the chair. Eulogistic referenco was made concerning the frork Mr. Turnbull had done as a member of tlie club and the community. Several speakers, on behalf of themselves and fellow-members, expressed best wishes for Mr. Turnbull's success in Christcliurch. Mr. H. P. Woodward, manager of tho Bank of New Zealand at Greymouth, who is retiring on superannuation, will be succeeded by Mr. Bevan, branch-manager at the Thames.

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