PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2847, 11 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association telegram from London last evening states that Mr_ Asquitli's son Claude is a prisoner in Germany.

The Hon. Sir Maurico O'Rorke, M.L.C., has been confincd to his house at Auckland for somo days through serious illness.

Cable news has just been received that Lieutenant lan Cruickshank, who left with tho Main Body, was wounded for the third time in Egypt on August 6. , Dr. Herbert Barraclough is gazetted to be chief medical officer of tho Island of Niue (G'ook Group). Mr. W. .J. Napier, of Auckland. i& visiting Wellington. Captain Ernest Robertson, N.ZIM.C,. who has been on a visit to Auckland, has reported for duty at Awapuni camp. j His Lordship Bishop Julius, of Christchurcli, is at present on a visit . to Wellington. Dr. A. W. Averill, Anglican Bishop of Auckland, is on a visit to Wellington. Before 'returning to Auckland Dr. Averill. will, make a tour of the Waikato. Mr. 0. J. Parr, M.P. for Ederi, a. member of the New Zealand delegation to the Empire Parliamentary Associa- u tion's Conference'in England, , is; expected to return to Auckland about tho middle of October. The official programme arranged,by the Parliamentary Association has been completed, , but Mr. Parr and Mr. E. ; P. Lee, M.P. for Oamaru, aro remaining in England for a few weeks. Mrs. Parr leffr Auckland recently to meet her husband. Mr. L. Kamiya, manager of tho Osaka Mercantile Steamßhip Company, . of Osaka, Japan, who arrived in Auck-' land from Sydnoy on Sunday, has gonq to Hotorua. From Rotorua he will proceed to Wellington. Mr. Kyoji Ukita, Japanese Trade Commissioner, who is at present in. Rotorua, will afterwards procccd to Wellington to return to Japan. Mr. J. Mac Donald, chief accountant in the Railway Department, Wellington, is on a business visit to Auckland. Mr. T. E. Donne is gazetted secretary of tho High Commissioner for Now Zealand in London. Corpl. S. J. Revington-Jones, Auckland Machino-gun Section, who is reported killefi in action on July 29, was one of the many representatives of the U.S.S; Company at the front. Previous to enlisting a.t> Auckland lie was acting as purser in their servicc. Bfe left ivith tho Main Body, and was through all the fighting in the Gallipoli campaign. Ho acquired his only wound in the Suvla Bay engagement (a bullet through tho nostrils), and for special work in tliis engagement , wa.s lucky enough to be recommended for tho D.C;M. by his commanding officer, Capt. Wallingford, and unlucky enough not to get' it. Later ho was joined in; Egypt by his elder brother, Pte. Outram Revington-Jones, who left with the Seventh Reinforcements, and thero transferred from tho mountcds to the Auckland Machine-gun Section. They fonght together in Franco until July 26, when Outram retired to hospital, wounded in tho head and face, his brother being killed three days later.

Mrs. Leese, of Owen Street, Newtown, lias been advised that her son, Lance-Corporal Guy Little, has been wounded w the fighting front in the North of France. Corporal! Little went to Samoa with the first New Zealand Expeditionary Force in. 1914, and returning the next year, left for Egypt with the Fifth Reinforcements, and saw a good deal of action on the Gallipoli Peninsula. He was, formerly a wording jeweller in the employ of Messrs. Itash and Gooder. 1

Mr. Frank Levy, who has acted as advance representative for the Allen Uoono Company for some years, will leave Mr. SJoone's employ at the end of the month, to join that of Mr. Hugh D. M'Jntosh. Mr. Levy will do tne x advanco w«rk for Horace Goldin, the Russo-American magioian, who is to commence 'a tour of New Zealand in Wellington on August 30.

Mr. W. H. Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, has. been appointed to succeed Mr. P. Hally as Conciliation Commissioner stationed at Wellington, i Mr. Hagger has been in tho service of tho Labour Department for nineteen years, entering first as clerk, and being subsequently appointed as inspector. Afterwards he waß in charge of the Christchurch branch of the Department, and on the retirement of Mr. J. Lomas he came to Wellington as Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories,. and later Deputy Superintendent of Workers' Dwellings. Ha will take up his new duties in a few days.

Mr. A. E. Kernot returned from a visit to Australia by the Niagara, and came on to Wellington by the Auckland express yesterday. Dr. 6. Owen, Professor of Physics at Auckland University College, who enlisted in February and was granted leave of absence from the end of the second term of this session, will leave for the training camp on August 22 as a prospective non-commissioned officer.

On Tuesday the clerical staff at Defence Headquarters presented Mr. W. E. Butler, chief clerk, with a suit-case and a totara pipe on the occasion of his transference to the Pensions Department. Mr. R. Collett, who formally made tho presentation, said that good relations had existed between tlio staff and its chief. Replying, Mr. Butler said that he left the staff with many regrets.

The Gazette announces the appointment of Mr. Thos. Brook to bo Coirroissloner for Crown Lands and Chief Surveyor for the West-land Land District.

Mr. Henry Humo, J.P., lias been appointed a Visiting Justice to His Majesty's prisons in Wellington.

Mr. P. H. Williams, of tlie Universal Film Supply Co., Ltd., arrived in 'Wellington from Auckland by tlio Main Trunk express yesterday afternoon, accompanicd by Mr, Scott Colville, to arrange a season of the Williamson Expedition. Submarine Pictures.