PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon, W. H. Herries will leave for Rotorua to-day to be present, as member for the district, at the opening of the Soldiers' Convalescent. Camp to-morrow. The Hon. W. Fraser, Minister of Public Works, will leave to-morrow for Wangahui. He will go over the Wa- ' ngauui-Rae'tihi Road, and will proceed by rail to Ohakune, returning to Wellington on' Saturday. The Hon. A. M. Myers has returned from Auckland. The Hon. Dr., M'Nab has gone to Mount Cook Hermitage on Tourist Department business. The Rev. E. T. Wynne Bond has resigned the charge of the parish of Martinborough (states the Martinborough "Star"). It is understood that Mr. Bond hopes to be able to proceed to the front. Major H. H. Allison, of the 10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles, has been appointed area officer and adjutant of the 10th Mounted Rifles, iu place of Lieutenant Stubbs, wlio will shortly proceed to , Trentham to go into camp with the Reinforcements. Major Allison will establish himself at his headquarters, Blenheim, on F«bruary 1. A Press Association telegram from Auckland states :* Robert Charles Black, a veteran officer of the Post avd Telegraph Department, died on Saturday last, aged 64' yeans. Rifleman Thomas Flint York, of the Ist Battalion,' New Zealand _ Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action against the Senussi, on the Egyptian border, on Christmas Day, was a son of air. Thomas York, of Woolston, Canterbury. He was 36 years old, and was,educated at Christ's College. He had been engaged in farming in the Wairarapa, and latterly at Waimate.' Rifleman York married a daughter of the late Mr. D. H. Brown, of Fendalton. ; His wife and two children live..at Waimate. Rifleman Edgar Norman Davis, New Zealand Bifle Brigade, who has died of wounds received in action against the Sonussi on Christmas Day, was' the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Davis, of Otira, formerly of- Christchurch, , and was 20 years of age. Before ho enlisted he was an assistant fitter at the Otira tunnel works. fyi .the course of a letter to a friend in Patea, 'the Rev. H. J; Deane, formerly vicar of Patea, stated that in consequence of v the- death of their son, Trooper 'Bernard Deane, at the front, both Mrs_. Deane and himself had abandoned their-intention;of returning to the Dominion. A noble example of patriotism has been given by the Newsliam family,which is a fairly large one, states the "Poverty, Bay Herald." Four'brothers, who were farming at Ormond, have been to the front, three with the howitzer . battery (one.. of them returned on Thursday), and onfe with the Liverpool's Own, whilst a fifth brother holds a commission in it. Scottish: regiment in ' France. Not. only have the male members of the large family shown such loyalty,, but the sisters are also doing a noble work in ministering to the sick and wounded, all except, one being inrsee in military hospitals in England. Mr. John. Munro Wilson, who for a number of years has been Government valuer in Nelson, has been transferred to Palmerston North. ', The staff, of Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co. farewelled Mr. J. C. Maxwell, who is to go into camp shortly as a non-commissioned officer of the Ambulance Brigade. Mr. James Macintosh, , the company's managing director, expressed the good wishes of Mr. Maxveil's erstwhile associates, and presented to the departing' officer a wristlet watch on behalf of - the staff. Mr. Robert Warren, of Hastings, is, says our Napier correspondent, seriously ill, and his condition is causing some anxiety. •

Mr. Allan Thomas, a 'brother of' Messrs. 0. and W. Thomas, of Dehra Dcon, Riwaka (Nelson), lias secured a commission in the Royal Field Artillery. Mr. Thomas, who was formerly Mr. Justice Dennistoil's associate, left for England some time ago and joined the • Artists' Rifles, from which he was •drafted to his present position. Mr. P. L. Hollings, the well-known ■ solicitor, of Mastterton, and a former Mayor of the town, sustained a severe stroke on his return from Wellington Idst week, after competing in the bowling tournament, and .is now lying in a critical condition in' a private hospital. —Masterliin correspondent. 1 Mr. P. Hall.v, Conciliation Commissioner, will 'eave for Nelson to-day to preside r-.t a sitting of the Conciliation Council to investigate the general labourers' dispute. Lieut.-Colonel J. R. Purdy, N.Z.M.C., who has been in Auckland in connection with the return of wounded and invalided soldiers by the Maheno and Ruahine, has returned to Wellington. Captain Burgess, of the Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross, who came to Wellington to see liis brother at Trentham,-returned to Auckland yesterday. Mr. W. C. Harrington, assistant secretary of tho "Evening Post," who is - going into camp on Tuesday as a raem : her of the 12th Reinforcements, 'was the recipient of a present on Saturday from.' tho proorietors, who have also granted him "leave of absence. His confreres in the office also presented him with a wristlet watch. Mr. C. Stubbs, secretary, made the presentation on behalf of the staff. Lieut.-Colonel J. R. Purdy, DeputyDirector of Medical Services, who for some years has been a member of the Lower Hutt Borough Council, has tendered his resignation to that body, owing to the pressure of military duties. The Minister of Public Health (the Hon. G. W. Russell) stated yesterday that he believed there were only fivo soldiers of the Maheno contingent .remaining in the enteric isolation hospi- ' till at Auckland. Mr. Gwilliani, Assistant Town Clerk, Lower Hutt, is still a patient in the ■Wellington Hospital as a result of an accident which he met with while riding his motor-cycle on tho Hutt Road. ; As it will_ probably be some time before Mr. Gwilliani will bo well again, iie may have to cancel his enlistment for. service at the front. Mr. Douglas Warren Russell, a sor of the Hon. G._.W. Russell, who has enlisted for active scrvice in the Infantry is on the Bank of New Zealand staff at Lyttelton, and has been for fivo years in tho Territorial Artillery. Pte. John_H. Dixon, B Company, Ist Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade (Earl of Liverpool's Own), who was severely wounded on Christmas Day at Morsa 'Matruli, is twenty-two years of ego, and is a son of Mr. If H. Dixon, assistant master at Wellington College. Lieut. Oliver Sydney Ellis, who was reported recently as having been wounded at Gallipoli, is a son of Mr. J. W. Ellis, of Muriaroha, near Hamilton. Ho was born at Otorohanga just over 21 years ago, and received his education at the King's College, Auckland. He was one of the team of New Zealand senior cadets which, after _a tour of Canada in 1912, succeeded in bringing home six out of the seven championsb'n nri7.es comnetod for. Gaining his commission in May, 1913, Lieutenant Ellis was in charge of the Hamilton Senior Cadets until his departure early in 1915 to join tho Fifth Reinforcement draft at Trentham. He is a good nil-round athlete, and was a member of tho Fifth Reinforcement'■ representatives when they defeated the Wellington' fifteen just prior to embarkation for Enypt; Lieutenant Ellis took partitt nil tho heavy fighting at Ahmc during August. Later lie was placed in command of the remnants of the _ 16th. Waikato Company, which position he held, as far as is knony, until ho was v'ou'ided.