PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2835, 28 July 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. H. Snioeton, the well-known Auckland merchant, will ono of the Y.M.C.A. Commissioners who will leave shortly for Trance, in connection, with tho comforts needed for New Zealand troops there during the coming winter.

Yesterday the Dominion Conference of the New Zealand Farmers' Union passed n resolution of sympathy with Mr. .T. H. Escott, M.P., in his illness, and decided to send him a message wishing him a speedy recovery.

Mr. A. E. Whyte, Consul in Wellington for tho "United States : of America, and secretary to the Wellington Racing Club, has received a cable message stating that his brother, Lieutenant Campbell Whyte. of the 10th Royal Fusiliers, has been killed in France. Tho late Lieutenant Whyte was in business in San Francisco with one of his brothers when the war broke out and went to, England, where ho enlisted.

Mr. A. 31. Goulding, solicitor, of Auckland, has been accepted for activo service.

Mr. P. H. Upton, general manager of the South British Insurance Company, is at present on a visit to Wellington. He will probably return to Auckland on Monday..

Tho many friendsof Mr. Arthur Drake, of Manakau, will regret to hear of his death, which occurred after undergoing a serious operation in a private hospital yesterday.

Mr.S. TJkita, who is a special member of the Japanese Trade Commission, is a passenger from Sydney to Wellington by the Manuka (due here on Monday).

At the Pctono football gymnasium last evening a presentation was made to Private H. Nicholls, o£ H Company, Fifteenth' Reinforcements. Mr. W. Eraser, a. vice-president of the club, in a few words, asked the recipient to cept a 'fountain-pen, on behalf of the club, of which he was such an energetic member, and wished him God-speed and a safe return. Mr. Nicholls suitably replied. Sergeant J. barber (accidentally- killed by a homb) was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Barber, of Wilson Street, Newtown, and was verv well known in Rugby circles. He had 'been a member of the Oriental. Poneke, and Melrose Football Clubs. At the outbreak of war he left with the Samoaii Expeditionary Force. He returned from Samoa in April, 1915, and left with the Fifth Eeinforcements, being one of the Suvla Bay heroes. It was oii Gallipoli, where he served till the evacuation, that lie won his sergeant s stripes.

Commissioner J. Cullen, of the Police, who has been absent in Auckland for some time past in connection with the trial of Rua, has returned to Wellington. Capt. /P. o.> Spry, formerly of the Wellington Fire Brigade,, who has been in charge of the wireless station at Samoa for some months, is a visitor to Wellington, v: