PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2849, 14 August 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Right Hon. ,W- F. Massey (Prime Minister) left foV Auckland on Saturday. J Sir Joseph Ward wont south -.to Christchurch oil Saturday night. Owing to indisposition His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout> was unable to take his seat on the> Bench at the Supreme Court on Sat. urday. The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald, Minister of Mines and Agriculture, is on a Departmental visit to Christchurch and. southern towns. Mr. E. W. Alison, junr., of Auckland, is at present on'a visit to Wellington. Dr.- A. Kidd, house surgeon at the Christchurch Hospital, arrived by the Maori,yesterday morning, en route to • camp. Members of the Defence Deportment; p&y Office staff made a presentation ait the end of last week to Sergeant Wm, Power, ivho is resigning a position in the office to bcoomo secretary to ilia Taranaki WOT Relief Sooiety, at Stratford. Sergt. Power spent .twenty months on aotivo service, including four months OT the Gallipoli I"enm6ula Senior offiosrs of the Pay OSes staff, in making the presentation, spoke in high terms '-of tho Tecipicnt s good oualitles. Mr. <J. W. Croll, of this,city, h'arf received advice from England that ins youngest son, Eric, has been! attached to tho Royal Flying Corps as* dispatch rider. * Detective A. E. Andrews, of thfl Mount Cook Police Statjon, has' }ieen awarded the police medal for long Service and good conduct. . i At the proceedings of the Concilia* tion Court on Saturday Mr. J. R.Trigg3, the South Island Commissioner, • said that the Government had made a very wise choice in appointing Mr. W. H. Hagger as Commissioner for Welling' ton, and he thought that the industrial district was to. be congratulated! on having a man of Mr. Hagger'S. experience and ability. Mr. Hagger thoroughly understood the Labour law 6, which would bo a great help to him. ' Mr. Triggs referred to a coincidence concerning himself and Mr. Hagger, stating that some years ago, when he. left London to corns to New Zealand, Mi*. Hagger succeeded him in theofhee in which he was employed. He was euro Mr. Hagger . would be ft great success in the position to which he had been appointed. j Capt. E. L. Hammond, who is reported killed in 'action, was a well-'' known resident of Wangaoui. Ho war - formerly a quartermaster-sergeant in the B Company of tho 7th Regiment, afterwards, taking over the command ■ of a CaSet company. Ho joinesd tho group-area as a sergeant-major, and, obtaining a commission, left with the adv-anco party of the Rifle Brigade. He received the rank of captain while on aefcivo service. He leaves a wife and / three young children.

The employees of Messrs. Thos. Ballingcr and Co. met together, on Saturday morning. to make a presentation to one of their fellow-employees, Pto, F. LaucMan, who is in camp with the 16th' Infantry Reinforcements. The presentation took the form of a handsomo wristlet watch by Mr. T. Ryan, on behalf of the employees., and a safoty-Tazor outfit from the firm* Messrs. Ballinger and Co. hare sent to the front twenty men out of thirty men employed—a record that would be hard to equal. Of these two have been killed in action and one has boon woundod.

Mr. L. Kamiya',- president of • the Osaka Shosen Kaislia. Line of steamers, arrived in Wellington from Auckland and Rotorua om Friday, and went on to Christclvurch on Saturday evening. With - his : travelling , companion, Mr. T. Higashiyama, lie will leave for Sydney on iWrsday next.

It is reported (says tlie "Nerv Zealand Herald") that Lieut. AV. Downie Stewart, M.P., has refused an offer of a nositioji ias one of Major-General Sir A'. H. Russell's staff, as he wished to take part in the actual fighting. Latest advices indicate that his wish has been gratified.

A Press Association cable message' from London on Saturday states that Capt. Thomas Kinder, of the Suffolk Regiment, . a nativo of Auckland, has been killed in action.