PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2865, 1 September 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the Governor and the Countess of Liverpool will witness tho picture, "The Birth of a Nation," at the Town Hall this evening.

The Hon.' 6. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, went north to Auckland by the first express yesterday.

- Captain Neville" Newcomb, of the New Zealand Motor Service Corps, adjutant of Featherston Camp, has been promoted to the rank of major, . Mr. H. T. Ellingham, who has been in Australia on a health-recruiting trip, resumed his seat on tho Land Board yesterday, and was welcomed back by the Commissioner of Lauds. The other members supported the Commissioner's remarks, and Mr. Ellingham iesponded, thanking members for their good wishes. The late Mr. John Stevens, of the Manawatu, was formerly a member of tho- Wellington Land Board, and at the meeting of the Bbard yesterday a moiion of sympathy and condolence with, tho -relatives of tho deceased was passed. Signaller Thos. Reginald Bacon, of the Sixth Reinforcoments, was tolled in action, somewhore in France, on Aufnist 15. The late Signaller Bacon, was 21 years of'age. He was born in Masterton, and educated at the Palliatma District;. High School. Upon tlio outbreak of war, deceased was one or the first in the Pahiatua district to volunteer, and was included in the first batch of recruits that left Pahiatua m 1914. It subsequently transpired at Masterton, that along with some others, ho was under age, and his services woro not then accepted. Deceased, however, lost none of his enthusiasm, and when a favourable opportunity presented itself n© again enlisted. ■ '

Dr. J. Batchelor, a Church' Society missionary stationed in Japan, who has boon touring, Now Zealand for some time past,. expects to leave for Japan next week. Mr. Charles Smith, the Palmerston North manager of the. Bank of New Zealand, left London on his return to the Dominion by the Turakina. Mr. Arthur Hinton, \xaininer to the Associated Board R.A.M., R.C.M., arrived in New Zealand from England this week. \ He litis gone ■ to' Auckland to conduct examinations there, and will subsequently return fo Wellington. • News has been received by Mrs. 0. E. Cherry, Rollest.on Street, that her 6on Corporal L. 0. Cherry; of the 2nd Australian Infantry, has been wounded in France. This is the second occasion on which Corporal Cherry has received wounds-, the former being at Gallipoli. The appointment of Mr. A.- T. Markmann as chief clerk of tlio Post • and Telegraph Department as from April I, 1916, is gazetted.