PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2917, 1 November 1916, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. G. W. Russell arrived back from Napier and Wairoa last night. The Hon. W. ]>Wer has gone south to interview local bodies in Otago and Southland regarding Public Works ex- , pendituro. He mil be away about a ! fortnight, and he will then have completed his circuit of tho local bodies , of the whole Dominion, The, Marine Department advises''that Captain Hall, now ohief officer of the Hinemoa, has been appointed to the position of Inspector of Ships at Auckland, and that- Captain Broadhouse, of the Government Shipping Office, Wellington, has been appointed Inspector of 'Shite at Wellington, in place of Captain F. A. Hardy, who is shortly to transfer to Auckland. Advice has been received that Private Harold Wilkinson, son of Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., has been given _ a commission as lieutenant in the British Array, and that ho is now on aotivo sendee in France. Sergeant Alcc. F. Meldrum, son of. Lieutenant-Colonel Meldrum, who was wounded in France on October I,'and nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship, has cabled his consent to nomination . from London, where ho is in hospital. Sergeant Meldrum left with the thirteenth Reinforcements, and formerly served in Samoa. , Colonel Fox and Dr. Whitton were passengers for Christchurcb by Mooraki last evening Mr. C. 31. Luko visited Trentham Camp yesterday in connection .with the Y.Jf.C.A. Institute work. The death is announced in the south of Mr. David M'Uwraith, an old and well-known resident of Darfield. lho deceased, who was a native of Ayrshire, came out to Now Zealand in 1882, and some years later he was appointed manager of tho Selwyn County Council's water-race system in tho Ellesmere district, and later became' the inspector of plantations. He was for twenty years secretary of tho Forresters' Lodge of Dunsandel. Rifleman Arthur J. Bird, killed in action in Franco on September 15, was tho third surviving son of Mrs. Joseph Bird, Waimate, and was twenty-nine years of ago. He was. a printer by trade, and had worked in the Waimate "Advertiser" O/Bco for many years. He left'Waimate with the Ist Battalion of the New Zealand Rifle Bri- , gade and took part in fighting against the Senussi in Egypt last'. Christmas Day. Later ho was sent to Zeitoun to specialise in bomb-throwing, and. trom then till tho time of his death was in tho bombing battalion. His brother James .was lost in the Marquette last year. ■ Corporal I'. E. Cummins, of Mastertoil, who was killed in. action in France on September 15, left New Zea- ■ land with the Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. Ho was twenty-two years of age, and first saw. fighting on Christmas Day in Egypt, proceeding subsequently to Franco, where ho joined the machine-gun'section attached to the Riile Brigade. Mi'. William R. Cooky formerly well known in business oircles in Dunedin and Cbristchurch, was found dead in bed yesterday morning (states a Press Association' message' trom Hokitika). Ho had "been jiiling for some time. Lieutenant 1?. G. V. Parker, R.N./j.A., has been, advised that his youngest son, Sergeant Alfred Cyril Parker, J\ew Zealand Field Artillery, has been given a commission as lieu- . tenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in England. Sergeant Parker was trained to the' sea on the Onion 1 Steam Ship Company's Dartford, and was atterwards mate on tho Kittawa. Me lefo New Zealand with tllo Third ■Reinforcements, and was invalided back with onteno fever. Recovering, ho left again with the Eleventh Reinforcements, and after 'serving some months in Franco, has joined the Nary. A Press Association telegram from Sydney rccords tho death of Air. .Peter 'Dodds M'Cormlck, official Precentor of tho General l'rosbyterian Assembly of the. Commonwealth, and composer of "Advauco Australia Fair." On boing elected to the position of president of llio Wellington Society for 'lie Prevention of Cruelty io Animals »o yesterday's annual meeting, Mr. F. Jleadowcrort was complimented on tho Epod work ne had done lor the .'society since he has filled the position. Second Lieutenant, Frank Irwin ■Rutlierfurd, British Royal Field Artillery, is returning to New Zealand on six months' sick leavo, and is. expected hv the s.s. Remuera ; due in Auckland about tho end of this week. Lieutenant Rutherfurd, who is au old Wellington College Boy, gained the. "Military Cross in France, where he was severely wounded. Mr. J. E. A. Thompson, of the Ous•toms Department, Lyttelton, who left to join tho non-commissioned officers' class at Trentham, and was attached to the Eighteenth Reinforcements, has ; 'been transferrin by appointment to the Twenty-first Reinforcement at present. uwleroing training, at Feathcrston. ' i Mr. Hugh M'Phee, of Belvedere, has had to enter a private hospital, says our Carterton correspondent. The death occurred at Grey town on Sunday of Mr. Georgo Yule, at the advanced age of seventy years. Mr. M. Hawkins, gaoler at Wellington, relinquishes bis duties in that position as from yesterday, in order io take the office of Assistant Inspector of Prisons, a capacity in which he has , acted for somo time. x Tho Wolliligto.il Choral Union has engaged the services of the,,talented soprano vocalist, Miss Minnb Waugh, ' 'at present in Melbourne, to sing tho solo music in "The Messiah," in tho Town Hall next month. Miss Waugh has a good English -and Australian reputation. She sang tho mezzo solos in ''Elijah" recently with tho Melbourne Philharmonic Society very successfully. Sergeant J. 51. M'Keuzio. who Mas repotted 1 at thi latter end of last week as hai'ing died from wounds, ( was a ton of the late Mr. John M'Kenzie, an old settler of the Wairarapa. He left for the front with the Fourteenth Reinforcements. Mr. Charles Bolton, who was connected with tho Public Service in Wellington for many vears, died at his residence in Owen Street on Sunday, at the age of 64. Tho deceased, who was a native of England, joined the Land and Income Tax Department in 1878, and remained with it until 189". Four years later ho becarno a member of the staff of tho Government Insurance Department, and with tho exception ol' a year's break -;1897-98) ho was in the Service .until lie retired on superannuation two years ago last June, owing to ill-health.' lie has. left a widow and family. Two of his sons went to tho front. One is still there, and the olher is a prisoner of war. Professor Park, Director of the Otago School of Mines, 'lias received advice that his youngest son, Lieut, lv. R. Park, formerly employed in the service of the Union Steamship Company, has been wounded whilst on active service in France. Lieut. Park left New Zea- ' J land with the Third Reinforcements 'as a gunner in the artillery, arriving in Egypt in time to join the Main Bodv. Ho served right throughout the G:illipoli campaign, during which ha received his commission in tho Royal Horse Artillery, being attached to the glorious 29th Division. After the evacuation of Gallipoli, the 29th Division was sent to France, and it was whilst encaged in the "big push" that Lieut. Park was wounded. Professor Park's remaining" two sons aro serving with the New Zealand Lieut. Park is a brother of Mrs. R, S. Thompson, . of Patea.