PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2661, 5 January 1916, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency tlio Governor went 'South with the hospital ship to be preRont at tlie welcome coremowes at Cliristchurch and Dunedin. He will return to Wellington from Dunedin. The Hon. W. Frascr intends shortlj to visit the Wanganui. district, to travel the Wanganui-Raetihi Road, aiid so on to Ohakune. He intends to spend some days, perhaps a week, exapiinmg what are the district's needs .with, respect to roads. This month he intends also to go to the North Auckland district,' to Northern Wairoa, to see how the Whangarei line is progressing. .. News has come to the Defence Minister that the New Zealand Official War Correspondent (Mr. Malcolm Ross) is ill.' Ho did.not write the account of the evacuation of Gallipoli, published 'here. This was the work of •he Aus. • tralian correspondent, Captain E. CJ ■ W.. Bean. The Prime Minister _ sai<l yesterday, however, that he the later' from Egypt liafl been, written and sent by Mr. Ross and that he did not believe Mr. Rosi .was very seriously ill. Dr. Newton Matthews, of New PKmouth, who has been serving with it i< K.A.M.C. as a lieutenant, has ba .?i promoted to the rank of captain, j Mr. W. V. Craske, manager of !t.h< Jnvercargill branch of the Union Ship Company, is to be transferred), tc Burnie # (Tasmania), as manager of jithf branch there. /• Miss J. Gifford Laurenson left ,';' res■ terday on a short visit to AYangan ai. Mr. and Mrs. .G. S., V. oi Napier, left by the mail train yest's.-xiaj morning, en route to the "Old Country. A Press Association telegram / fron Nelson'announces tlie sudden dealbh ol Mr. Jas. Tait, clerk to, the Collingwood County Council. f -