PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2716, 10 March 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. A. K. Newman, M.l'. ior Welington East, who bat) been conducting i recruiting campaign in the vicinity ot Wellington, has been invited to speak 111 ;ho South Island. Ho leaves for Dunidin noxt wees. Mr. \V. 6. Foster has been appointed 1 members of the Publio Trust Office Board. General Orders issued from Pefenco Headquarters state that. Captain E. A. \V. Henloy, N.Z.M.C., has been appointed medical officer to the Field Artillery Cadre, Napier. Dr. C. J. Wood, Anglican .Bishop of Melanesia, is expected to return to Nfew Zealand in May to attend 'the General Synod to be held in Chnstohurch this year. Mr. W. J. Knell, manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Opunako, has received notice of his transfer Picton. ' f Dr. Valintine, liispector-General of Hospitals, paid a visit of inspection to the Napier Hospital on Wednesday morning. A pleasant little gathering of the members of the Island Bay Municipal Electors' Association was held in Godber's Rooms at lunch time yesterday, when Mr.H. G. Hill, late chairman of the association, who is about to take up his residence in Nelson, was cordially ' farewelled. Mr. E. H. Barton, who occupied the chair, presentedi Mr. Kill with a serviceable wallet, and in doing so referred to the regard in which ha had been held in the district, and the enthusiastic work he had done on its behalf during his long connection ivith the association. Mr. E. J. Colley, of Grey Street, lias 3ntered into partnership with Mr. Jamas' M'lntosh as professional accountants, auditors, and secretaries v Writing to a Wellington friend Mr.' H. G. Berryman, of Nelson, states that his son, William Berryman, who saw much active service at Gallipoli with the forces, was receiving a permanent commission. His other son, Stanley, was also offered a commission, but was prevented from taking it up as General Godley would not sanction any transfer from the New Zealand to the Imperial Forces. Mr. J. H. P. Strang, of Palmerston North, who went to England some few months 'ago, has offered and been accepted for service at the front in a motor ambulance section. On Wednesday evening the members of the 'executive of the Wellington Orphans' Club met and presented the club's secretary. Mr. Herbert F: Wood, with a music "cabinet, and a wristlet watch for Mrs. Wood, as a mark of esteem. Mr. D. Ryan, manager at Auckland for the Huddart-Parker Company, is on a visit to Wellington. The Government Biologist '(Mr. A. H. Cockayne) is on a departmental visit to Canterbury. Mr. J. J, Walsh, of the literary staff of the "Otago Daily Times," has joined the infantry section of the 14th Reinforcements. The; death occurred on Tuesday of another pioneer settler of Otago, ill tho person of Mr. William Jaffray. Thp deceased resided at Saddle Hill, and was in his 96th year. Advice has been received that Sur-geon-Capt. Alfred Clark, of Auckland, has been transferred from the staff of the hospital ship Maheno to headquarters in Cairo. The "Timaru Herald" reports that Mr. J. S. Lawrie, formerly in the motor business in Timaru, is seriously ill in Whangarei with infantile,paralysis..Both Ids logs are paralysed. Mr. A. L. Robb, of the Wanganui Corporation staff, who was honourably discharged from the New Zealand forces liter his return from the front, has re2nlisted. v i ' Mr. Charles Cathie, president of the Now Zealand Baptist TJniou, is visiting the various churches .in the union. He is at present in Dunedin, whence he will go to Oamaru and Timaru. Private Raymond Baker, who was severely wounded at Gallipoli, and has been at the Convalescent Home, Rotorua, for some months, has been discharged, and is on his way to' his parents' home in Wellington. Mr. Allan Signal, of Bulls, has been promoted to second lieutenant, and will sit forhis captaincy next week.. As a private he joined the Tenth Reinforcements, but on obtaining his lieutenancy lie was appointed as a permanent instructor, and.he hopes to reach the front in a later reinforcement. Among the New Zealanders now in the Old Country, Sergcant-Major Otto Friedlander, son of Mr. Rudolph Friedlander, of Ashburton, has been recommended by Major-General Godley for a commission in the Imperial Army_. Ser-geant-Major Friedlander enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Main Body) as a'private. The appointment of Commander E. R, G. R. Evans, C.8., to the Crusadai was recently announced in an English paper. Commander Evans was second in command of the Scott Antarctic Expedition, and brought the expedition back after Captain Scott's death. He entered tho Navy in 1597, and served in the Morning relief ship to tlie Discovery Expedition, 1902-4. The death of Mr. Arthur Albert Harold, of the Te Aro branch of the National Bank, occurred in the Otaki Hospital 011 Tuesday. Deceased, whe was twenty-nine years of ago. and unmarried, cam© from Leeds. Before lis entered the Otaki Hospital he had been in a private hospital in Wellington. The funeral took place at Otaki yesterday. tho Rev. Father Ainsworth conducting the service. The death has occurred of anothei of Southland's pioneers, Mr. W M'Naiiffhton. in his 70th year. He, to pother with his father and mother, lef the parish of Dowaly, Perthshire. 11 October, 1860. They sniled 111 the Lad.i Egidia, then 011 her maiden voyage, ant arrived at Dunedin in Januaiy, 1861 From tlu>re £he family went to South land, and took un land at West. Plains Here tlie.v had veritably to carve a hftnn nut of tbVwilderness, the first housfMi West Plains being built by Sir M'Naughton's father and mother will their own hands. Mr. Henry William Heath, an ot< roioni'st, died in Auckland 011 Tuesday Deceased in the early days was manage of the North Shore Ferry Company After mnnv years in that, cniwcitv he re signed and took' up a land and estai and was the first agent in Auck land for the London ami Laucashir Insurance Company. Ho left Ne>v Zoa land some years ngo for Cnico, Caliroi nia, where lie "\vns ensued in inismcß for some, years. About twelve years ag he returned to Auckland, where l>e cor tinned to reside till his death. He wa one of the oldest members of the And; land Bowling Club. His wife predc censed him some years ago. Mr. Edward M'Anenv, a well-know builder in Wanganui. has received ai other postcard (via the Red Cross 01 ganisation in Switzerland) from hi brother, who is a prisoner of' war fi Kliangeri, Constantinople. The card ; dated December 12, 101/5. The write says he has been expecting letters, In: supposes they must, be held up som< where, and concludes: "Am in goo lionlt'h and spirits. 'Hie weather i much milder, the snow having di°n] pcared. Am expecting clothing froi our Government for the bovs here wit me. There are sixteen New Zcalnn boys here, all doing fairly veil. —Serg I a.' M'Aiiaiw."