PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2745, 13 April 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Major Corrigan, Group Area Officer, who lias been visiting Auckland in coiw uection with tho returning soldiers bj , the Turakina and Malieno, arrived back last evening. Lieut.-Colonel A. B. Charters, for a long' time Cam;> Commandant at Egypt in connection with the New Zealand Forces, has now been placed in charce of the Otago Infantry Battalion. He has been succeeded in Cairo by Lieut, Colonel J. J. Esson, formerly ..of Wellington. , Mr. Roy Herman, of Christchurcli, who left with the Main New Zealand Expeditionary Force" as a private, has been promoted to a lieutenancy. He was present at the . landing at Gallipoli, and was also there when the position was evacuated, and was tlie only surviving member of his company. An elder brother (Captain Cedric Herman) wont to the front in. charge of one of • the companies of Auckland infantry. < Lieut.-Colonel Edward Sherson, New Zealand Field Artillery, has been award* ed the Colonial, Auxiliary Forces' Officers' decoration. The death occurred at-the New Ply. mouth Hospital on Saturday of Mr. John Smith Matson, in his 74th year. He arrived in New Plymouth in 1861, ' with the military settlers in the barque Brilliant from Melbourne, and after residing there for many years left for the West Coast, where ho was engaged in gold mining for 35 years. He afterwards went to Wellington, but during the last four years lived a retired life in New Plymouth. He leaves a widow and eight children—Mesdames H. Moon (New Plymouth), W. Gandell (Greymouth), A, Good (Greymouth), R. Dawson- (Timaru), ■G. Ledsham (Christchurch), and P. Hansen (Rawene), and Messrs. E. Matson (Carterton), and W. Matson (Wellington). Captain R. Neave, of the Esses Regiment, has been appointed an Assistant Instructor in Musketry in the Now Zealand Forces.