PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2845, 9 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir William Cooper, of Sydney, was a passenger by tlio Niagara, winch arrived at Auckland on Sunday. He has ljgen resident in tlio Commonwealth for three years, and is proceeding to Great Britain on a \isit. '

Mr. J. S. Munro, of Palmorston, has received a cablegram from his son, Corporal J. D. B. Munro, who left the Otago University to join tho 13th 1W inforcements, saying that he had arrived at Bulford Camp ■on Salisbury Plain, England.

Mr. G. Cooper, one of the directors of Messrs. F. Cooper, Limited, seedsmen, met- with a serious, accident on, Sunday last. .In walking in the afternoon ho slipped and broke his right lee;. He was attended •to by Dr.: Mirams, of the Lower Hutt, and was! subsequently removed .in a motor ambu-1 lance to Kensington Street private hospital, where his leg was set by. Dr. Ewai't. Mr. Cooper is progressing as favourably as is possibfe under the cir- : cumstances. \ ■

Messrs. H. M. Smeeton, W. G.' Jamieson, and A. Varney, the Now, Zealand Commissioners for . the Y.M.C.A., who are going to Franco to; inquire into the needs of our soldiers there, left Auckland for Vancouver by tko Niagara. Tlicy are accompaniedby Mr. J. Shacklock, ex-Mayor _ of, Dunedin, who ia going to France with, his motor-car to assist in Y.M.C.A.' work behind the fighting front.

Bandmaster H. M'Comish, of the sth Regiment Band, has been promoted to be honorary lieutenant.

The death took placa on Sunday, at the ago of forty-one, of Mr. James Owen Jones, third son of Captain James Jones, of Oriental Baj'j after a short illness. The late Mr. Jones was educated at St. Patrick's College.' When the' Russo-Japanese war broke out he was in Japan. Deceased, who was unmarried; was one of tho founders of tho Oriental Boating Club, and was also connected with the old Arawa Sailing Club. The funeral, wliicb. took place at Karori yesterday after-' noon, was largely attended. Lieutenant C. Whyte, who was killed in France on July 22, was thirty-six years of age, .and was married to Miss Mollie Harnett, of PalmeTßton North,' six weeks before he left .for the front.; Ho was a mining engineer, and jiad; held important positions in Australia' and Mexico.

Lieutenant R./W. Westmacott,' Auckland Infantry/ Batt., N.Z. Expeditionary Force, who has been temporarily employed at Defence Headquarters, Wellington, lately, lias been appointed A.D.C. to Colonel Logan, Admimstra-' tor of Sanioa, and left on Monday to take up bis duties. Lieutenant West-' macott. tvljo left New Zealand the Main Body, was severely wounded at Gallipoli.in June; 1915, and as a result had his ,leg amputated, He bad a.' brother also severely wounded on Gallipolii and another brother at Home was killed in action.

Auckland's fast-diminishing band of pioneers lias sustained another loss in the death of Mr. Edwin Carr. The deceased was born in London in ISo4. and arrived in Auckland, where lie had resided until the time of his death, by the ship Morning Star in 1861.