PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2937, 24 November 1916, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Gordon S. Troup, of Wellington, has achieved the honour of winning both the oratory and essay competitions promoted by the Navy League in connection with the Waitaki Boys' High School, in the south. The winner is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George Troup, of Kelburn. Mr. C. Wilson, the Parliamentary Librarian, who has been in poor health lately, leaves for Rotorua to-day by the Auckland express. He expects to be away about three weeks. The death is announced of Mr. Job Wilton at the age of 82 years. The late Mr. Wilton arrived in New Zealand with his parents in 1841 by the ship London. Twenty years later he married Miss Ellen Curtis, who predeceased him seven years ago. He took up land at Wadestown, now known as Wilton's Bush. He leaves one sister, Mrs. Budden, of Nelson, and seven sons and three daughters. They are: William (Carterton), Earl and Herbert (Tokomaru), George (Palmerston North), Ardent and Hedley (Rangiotu), and Allan (Hunterville). His daughters are: Mesdames Jamieson and Yardly (Wellington), and Watson (Oamaru). The late Mr. Wilton also leaves 49 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Mr. J. Coyle, secretary to the Wellington Hospital Board, will enter camp early in January, having volunteered for service. The board decided yesterday that Mr. Coyle's position should be kept open for him, and he should be paid two months' salary as from January 1, 1917. The board's accountant, Mr. S. Robinson, will be actingsecretary during Mr. Coyle's absence. The Hospital Board decided yesterday that the resignations of Mr. H. H. Green, dental surgeon on the honorary staff, Drs. B. F. Aldred and G. B. Isdale, house surgeons, Sister Skene, and Senior Nurses I. Burt and E. Wallace, should be accepted with regret. Mr. W. T. Dawson, of Christchurch, has been informed that his son, Mr. Harold Dawson, who left with the Canterbury draft of the Eleventh Reinforcements, has received a commission as lieutenant in the Royal Flying Squadron, and will be stationed in England for the present. At a meeting of the executive of the Marist Brothers' Old Boys' Association held last evening special reference was made by the chairman (Rev. Brother Emilian) to the honour which had been conferred upon an old boy of the Newtown Marist Brothers' School, Mr. W. P. Healy, who had been awarded the Military Cross. The speaker expressed his pleasure at the splendid response made by the ex-pupils to the country's call, and said that it was a proud record that included in those who had left on active service wore two captainchaplains, Rev. Fathers Segrief and H'Menamin, while the late Captain Shout had been decorated with the V.C., M.C., D.C.M., and Mr. W. P. Healy had received the M.C. He hoped that before the war was over the services of many other old boys would be similarly recognised.