PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2901, 13 October 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. C. W. Russell'went to Carterton yesterday on business connected with patriotic effort in that town. Tho Hon. Dr. M'Nab returned to Wellington last night from. Picton. Dr. Anderson, Director of Agriculture in Victoria, is at present_ in Wellington. Yesterday ho.had an interview with tho Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald). Captain Louis G. Wilson, of the Otago Infantry Battalion, who is reported in yesterday's casualty list as missing, is a son of Mr. C. G. Wilson, of Wellington, one of New Zealand's best-known cricketers. Tho Wellington Cricket Association has written to Mr. Wilson expressing the hope that all is well with his son, and that better news will soon como to hand. Mr. W. R. Blow, Now Zealand Government Agent in Sydney, is a passenger to Wellington by the Riverina from Sydney, due here on Monday.—Press Association. Tho municipal flag was flown at halfmast yesterday out of respeit.to the memory of Mr. -A. Gardiner, late tramways track supervisor, and a very popular member of tho corporation's staff. Private William Ernest Wilton, youngest son of Mrs. A. Wilton, of Clyde Quay has been killed in action on the Western front. He left New Zealand in February last as a non-com-missioned officer in the Mounted Rifles, and on arrival in Egypt relinquished his stripes in order to proceed to France as an infantryman. He was 24 years of age, and a prominent member of the Swifts and Wellington Swimming Clubs, and also of the Brooklyn Harriers. He was the first winner of the Cooke Cup, which is competed for annually over a five-mile course. Before the Territorial scheme was initiated he joined the Heretaunga Mounted Rifles.

Private Jasper A. Greene. Main Expeditionary Force, 9th Wellington Infantry Rifles, who was killed it aotion in France on September 16, wa ; s the second oldest son of Mr. A. Blake Greone, of Dunboyne Lodge, Hastings. Private Greene was all through the Gallipoli campaign, and -did excellent work as a sharpshooter. He went from the Dardanelles to Homchuroh Camp, in England, and afterwards to the fighting line in France. Private Greene was a prominent member of the Hastings Kohinoor Hockey Club, and a crack rifle shot, and was recently solected to represent his company at the gToat Paris review. , "

Tho Baptist Union Conference at Dunedin, a"fter adopting various reports on mission work, elected the following officers for the Missionary Union:—Secretary, Rev. J. K. Archer, Wellington; treasurer, Mr. C. Cathie, Wellington; financial secretary, Rev. F. Oldrieve.—Press Association.

Corporal Thomas A. Snelling, of Napier, of the Thirteenth Reinforcements, who was wounded in France on September 15, has cabled his mother from London that he is progressing favourably, and hopes to spend furlough with his relatives in England.

Mr. John Fitzgerald has been appointed 'deputy-sheriff for the district of Nelson.

Mr. William -Kerr, S:M., has been appointed to succeed Mr. L. G. Reid, S.M., as chairman of the licensing counties for the districts of Pahiatua and Wairarapa.

News has been received by cablegram of the death in Brantford, Ontario, of Mr. Howard Ja~ckson, a onetime well-known resident in Dunedin and Lawrence.

An old pioneer of the 'Auckland province, Mr. James M. Logan, tnguieer, of Stanley Bay, died last week in his 73rd year. The late Mr.'Logan'arrived in tho Dominion, fifty-five-years ago, landing at Invercargill Soon after his arrival he went to the Auckland province. He was the 'wner of the first steam launoh, the Alice to run on Lake Rotorua. He had huilt in Auckland a small steamer called the Neptune, which he ran to Kaipara, and which later was wrecked near Blenheim. Ha was also well known as the engineer of the old Rose Casey, and was for about a. year engineer of the .Mejanesian Mission steamor the Southern Cross, a position his eldest son at present holds. Till he retired from the sea quite recently he had been in the employ of the Northern Steamship Company for about twentyI three years.

Mr. S. K. Siddells, who is now on the staff of the Napier Boys' High School, has enlistedj and goes into camp at the end of the year. Before going to Napier he was on the staff of the Victoria Avenuo School, WanganuL Mr. Siddells represented Wanganui Rugby representatives in.1914 and 1915. He is now. a member of the Hawke's Bay Rugby Union, and has taken an ardent interest in football in Napier. He spent much of his time in coaching tho boys of the^school. •Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Carrol], of Brisbane, left here for Auckland last evening. With' Mr. and Mrs. John Tart they are to visit Rotorua at the end of the month.