PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2718, 13 March 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

esir Joseph Ward is to visit Winton to-day, and will speak at Gore this on recruiting .matters., He will arrive back in Wellington on Wed-, nesday morning. Mr. H. H. Ostler, of tlie -well-known Auckland legal firm of Jackson, Bussell, Tunks, and Ostler, has been appointed Assessor for. the Public Works Department ,in connection with that body's claim in the Compensation Court for £10,945 in respect to land taken for the widening and! reconstruction of Jermyn Street. A Press Association message from London states that M;\ W M. Hughes, the Commonwealth Prime Minister, has been made a Priyy Councillor. The Rev, J. A. Hosking, for the past five years stationed at Daniievirke,.will shortly take charge of the Methodist Church at Masterton. : Mr. J. C. Brown, of Denniston, has been appointed district manager for the Westpor'fc Coal Company. He will be succeeded as local manager at Denniston by Mr. A. Marshall. Mr. J. D. Gray, secretary of the Recruiting Board, returned on Saturday from . Invercargill, where, with Sit 1 Joseph Ward, he assisted at a recruit, ing meerting.-' Mr. Simon Fraser, son of the late Captain Fraser (in oommand of the steamer Jane Douglas for some twenty years or so)j died in Wellington last week at the age of 44 years. The deceased "was a warehouseman by trade, and commenced to learn his business with the now dsfuncb firm of ' Turnbull, Smith and Co., and prior to his final illness was in the 'employ of Roberts, Ltd. Some twenty years ago Mr. Fraser was a. prominent member of the Toneke Football Club, _ and a member of its senior team. His brothers are: Messrs." Wm. "Fraser, of . Wellington; Mr. Thomas Fraser. and Mr. John Fraser, of Johnsonville (formerly of the Railway Service, Wellington), now on military service in Europe. The funeral took place on Saturday, .the burial service being conducted by the Rev. J.: Kennedy Elliott, D.D. A' private cable message has. been received hi Qhristchurch stating that Captain L. G. D. Acland- had been further promoted to be major. He left New Zealand with the Main i Expeditionary Foroe as second lieutenant, end has sinco been promoted through the various steps, as well as being men< tioned in dispatches and ge.iniug the 'Military Cross. Mr. W. Copeland, of Dee Street, Invercargill, has been advised that his eldest brother, Private W. Copeland, of the" Australian Imperial Forces, has been killed in action. Private Copeland left Victoria with the Ist Expeditionary Force, and was among the first to land at Gallinoli. He had also seen service in the T3oor War. A number of the commercial travelers who are staying at the Clarendon Hotel, Christchnrch, met the manager, Mr. Tom B'everidge, and presented him wi£h a handsome suit-case as a mark of appreciation of the courtesy he had always extended to them, both during his managership of the Grand Hotel in Wellington, and ;tho Clarendon in this city. Mr. Beveridge is ,on the eve oT his departure for Scotland, where he. intends to enlist. ' Mr. P. XT. .Venn, of Shannon, who ha» been seriously ill for months past, ig now improving (states the "Horowhe-. nua Chronicle"), and he hopes to be able to return home in a few weeks' time. Mr. E. : G. Stamp, chief clerk of the telegraphic branch of the Ohristchurch Post and' Telegraphic Office, has been appointed to the position of postmaster.'at Feilding. Last week Mr. Stapp received a : presentation from theOhristchuroh staff of . a marble clock for himself and a silver cake dish for Mrs. Stapp. Mr. Louis P. Whitcombe. local director of the firm of Messrs. Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd.,. left for Auckland last evening. • The Tiraam "Herald" reports thatMr. J. S. Lawrie, formerly in_ the motor business in Timaru, is seriotjsly ill in Wliangarei with infantile paralysis. Both his legs are paralysed. Mr. F. J.- Ryder has been eleoted a member of the Horowhenua County Council. Five returned 6olfliers applied for land at Friday's meeting of the Hawke's Bay Land Board. The applications were adjourned till thep lans had been prepared. - The Rev. G. S. Cook, who has been superintendent of the Thorndon Methodist Circuit for the past four yearß, has been, stationed at 1 Cambridge by< the late Auckland Methodist Conferenco, and will be leaving Wellington early in April. . Mr. Dennison Millar, governor of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, is coming from Sydney to Wellington by the Mssuka ,aicoi'ding to private advice received. Mr.'J. W. Collins, acting-secretary of the Board of Trade, has given instructions, under Section 6 of the Cost of . Living Act, 1915, that all communications regarding alleged infringements of the provisions of the Commercial Ifrust Act, 1910, or complaints that the prices of any class of goods is unreasonably high, should be addressed to the. Board of Trade, Wellington. Tho Hutt River has bean extremely low during the last month, so muoh so that the River_ Board' overseer reported at last evening's meeting that some of the board's floating plant bad been removed to a new site by dragging it over shingle beds' instead of towing it through the water as usual.