PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2892, 3 October 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

i ' Sir William Hall-Jonos left for the 1 south Iby the Mararoa last evening. General Robin, Commandant of the Now Zealand Forces, is at presont in tho South Island. He will visit Christchurch and Dunedin before returning to Wellington, probably about the end of the week. Mr. J. B. P. Clouston lias been appointed second olerlc at the Auckland Chief Post Office, vice Captain Dunn, transferred to Wellington as adjutant to the P. and T. Corps. Mr. D. C. P. Hamlin, late of Napier, has been placed in charge of the translators at Hamilton. Mr. E. G. Eton, J.P., has been appointed District Coroner for the Wairarapa, in succession to ,Mr J. T.- M. Hornsby, M.P., who retired before the 'last election. Mr. S. C. Baron, of Messrs. W. Dimock and Co., Ltd., Wellington, and who_ was formorly connected with the Christohurch Meat Co., Ltd., has been appointed geueral manager of tbo N.Z. Fanners' Co-op. Bacon and Meat Packing Co., Ltd. Mr. Colin Munro, ,secretary of Messrs. W. Dimock and Co., Ltd., and also formerly of the Christchurch Meat Co., Ltd., will be secretary of tho now organisation. Mr: W. J. Rodger, ,who was Auckland manager for Messrs. W. Dimock and Co., ■Ltd., has been appointed managor or the N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. Bacon and Meat Packing Co., Ltd;, Auckland. Advice has • been received that Mr. Ted. Denfioo, brothor of Mr. A. Denticc, of Tasman Street, has been wounded in the right knee in France, and is now a patient in a London hospital. Mr. Ted Dentico is woll known tn stageland in the city. _ Commander Stewart, of Nelson, a retired naval officer, who volunteered for service at 'tho outbreak of tho war, and who has been employed on gunboat service at the head of the Persian Gnlf, returned to New Zealand by tho Manuka yesterday. Mr. Henry Hayward, of tho Now Zealand Picture Supplies, -Ltd., returned from a visit to Australia by the Manuka yesterday. Captain R. F. C. Scott (wounded) is the second son of the late Captain B. J. Scott, master mariner, and of Mrs. J. Scott, Mount Eden, Auckland. He was a member of,the Postal Department at New Plymouth at the outbreak of tho war. Ho was then sent by the Post and Telegraph Department to Muriwai, with others.; to guard tho cable. On his recall to Auckland ho enlisted, and left New Zealand rather more than a year ago, with the rank of lieutenant. He was promoted captain in Egypt. After taking part in the , operations at Gallipoli, and in tho , evaouation, he went to France. ■ Captain James Frederic (killed in Mesopotamia) was born in Invercargill ! 38 years ago. Ho was educated at the 1 local High School, and weut from the ( Otago University to the London Unit vorsity. He afterwards pursued his ■ studies in France. Captam Frederic . returned to New Zealand, and for some 1 years he resided in Auckland. Later ' he went to Madras and was fighting ] under General Townshend when he met, < his death. Captain Frederio's mothei- 1 resides in Auokland, ,1

News has been received by Mr, H. Poole, of Lower Hutt, that his son, Rifleman F. A. Poolo (Jack), Signallet iu the Rifle Brigade, was wounded on September 15. Prior to enlistment, Rifleman Poolo was a well-known officer in the Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington. Before addressing the New Zealand Club yesterday, Mr. J. J. Virgo said that he had a message'from Mr. Harry Holmes, formerly secretary of the Y.M.O.A. -in Wellington, to convoy to che gathering. He had seen Mr. llolmes at the front, and Mr. Holmes had nsked him to convey his greetings to the Now Zealand Club in Wellington. Second Lieutenant L. F. Hursthouse, R.F.C., who was reported wounded on. August 10, is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. He has received promotion to the rank of captain. Mr. G. Elliot, who has been appointed a member of the- Auckland Military Service Appeal Board, is one of the best known of Auckland's business meu. He was president of tho Auckland Chamber of Commerce for the year 1911-12, oocupying that position when he was elected president of the Auckland Exhibition in MarcK, 1912. Since the war opened he has been prominently associated with patriotio efforts. > He is a member of the Aliens' Commission, and was a member of the special commission whiob recently inquired into and reported on the .post* tion of the Dalmatian gumdiggers in tho North of Auckland, Second Lieutenant F. R. Wilson, reported wounded in France, is a son of Mr. J. Wilson, of Pompallier Terrace, Ponsonby, Auckland. He was educated at the Auckland- Grammar School, and as he had entered the teaobing profession spent some time at the Auckland Trailing College. He was teaching at the Newton West School when he enlisted. He left New Zealand with the rauk of sergeant,_ and received a lieutenant's commission on the field. • He was extremely popular and a good allround athlete. He represented Auckland at Rugby in 1906-7-8-9-10. and also represented the North Is.land and Now Zealand in 1910.' Ho was captain of the Auckland TJnjversity College Football Club the year its senior team won the championship, and ho was a member of the Ponsonby Cricket Club's senior eleven. He was one of Auckland's fastest amateur sprinters, and was seoreta-ry of tie Ponsonby Swimming Club.