PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2929, 15 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J ustioo Stringer, accompanied by Mrs. Stringer, arrived in Auckland by the Main Trunk express on Monday.

Tho Hon. J. A. Hanan left for tho southeast night. Ho'intcnds to visit tho AVcsfc Coast.

Captain Alfred Harvey, 8.5.0., is reported to have died of wounds in Mesopotamia. Ho was tbo youngest son of the lato Rev. Bacho" Wright Harvey, a former headmaster of Wanganui College. A brother of Captain Harvey, Dr. Arthur Harvey, is in practice at Wavcrlcy, near AVanganui.

Mr. Douglas Hay, the Auckland cricketer, who was seriously injured in a, motor accident in tho Waikato a short time ago, is making good progress towards recovery.

Major James M'lntosh Bell has been attached to the Royal Highlanders of Canada, and is now in France. Major Bell was formerly director of tho Geological Survey Department, in New Zealand. Ho subsequently held an; important position in Canada, which he resigned to enlist. \ Sergeant Walter Anderson Holmes, reported in yesterday's Roll of Honour as having died of wounds, was bom in Dunediu, educated at Wellington Terraco School, and Wellington College. Ho was sergeant in the Wellington College Cadets, and in 1912 his team won tho squad drill competition. He was afterwards sergeant in the. Wellington Regiment Territorials. He was stroke of the Boys' College Boating Club, and also rowed in the Junior Fours for the Star Boating Club. Ho left New Zealand as a member of the Eight Reinforcements, and took part in tho New Zealand trench raid of June 16 last, and nnder trying conditions brought his party through, and was personally congratulated lby both Bewral Birfcood and General Braitlrwaite. and was mentioned in dispatehps, and awarded the Military Medal. Ho was in tho Customs Department, Wellington, when ho enlisted.

Sergeant Hugh.Eraser, of New Plymouth, is leaving for the front with the Nineteenth Reinforcements. Sergeant Fraser in civilian life is a journalist, and has served on newspapers in his own town,' and in Auckland and Christchurch.

Mr. Jas. S. Lee, a returned soldier, residing at Waihi, has been appointed to the position of assistant-engineer at the Petono pumping-station.

Mr. George W. Adair, boys' work director of. the Auckland Y.M.C.A., and who for some years was in charge of boys' work.in connection with the local association, has enlisted, and goes into camp in January next.

Mr. R. W. Brown, for the past twenty years a member of the Pohangina County Council, and at present cSairman of that body, 'is retiring from office owing to ill-health.

The death is announced fof Mr. Thomas Grace,, son of the late Mr. John Grace, of Wainui-o-mata. Mr. Grace of the earliest settlers firs in Wainui, and later in the Wairarapa, where he took up sheep-farm-ing at Gladstone. He was a well-known figure in sporting circles in the AVairarapa, and was for many years a member of the Wairarapa Racing Club. He was a most popular and highly respected man, familiarly known to his friends as "Uncle Tom." Deceased leaves a brother. Mr. W. A; Grace,- of Wainui-o-mata, and two sisters, Mrs. W. A. Jackson, of Eastboirrno, and Mrs. M. Willoughby, of Wainui-o-mata.

Private Arnold R. Edwards, of Lower Moutere, Nelson, who was reported wounded on October 1, is in the 3rd London Hospital. He was_ wounded in the back, and is progressing favourably.

Lieut. C. F. Carey,- who was recently reported as having been killed at Sling Camp, Salisbury Plain, as the result of an accident caused by bomb-throwing, is mentioned in a cablegram received by Base Records , from BrigadierGeneral Richardson. The message states that Lieut. Carey's action saved the life of 21,637 Pte. A. H. Hounsell, and that this was the fourth occasion' on which Lieut. Carey showed remarkable bravery at the Bombing School. He has been recommended for posthumous reward.