PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3019, 5 March 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. AV. 1) S: Mac Donald left for Gisborne on Saturday.

Tho Hon. A. L. Herdman and the Hon. W. Eraser returned to AVellington yesterday. The Hon. AV. H. Berries will return from 'the north on Wednesday.

The Hon. J. A. Hanan went to the South Island on Saturday evening. He will ho in Wellington again on Wednesday.

Captain J. L. H. Turner, of the R.N.Z.A., who was killed in July, 1916, has been mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's dispatches. He won tho Military Cjross in January, 1915, and was mentioned in 6ir John French's dispatches lateral the same year.

The Rev. A. T\" B. Page, vicar of Manaia, and his sister. (Mrs. Marsh), received news by the last English mail of the death, of their father, Mr. G. A. Pago, on January 3, at Margate, Kent, England, in his seventy-eighth year. , A Gazette issued in London at New Year time contained a notice of the promotion of Lieut. Roderick Carr, of Feilding, to he flight-lieutenant. Lieut. Carr went to England nearly two years ago, and joined the British .Royal Naval Air Service. He has made rapid progress, and for some time has been stationed in France.

Mr.. J. L. Palethorpo, Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, who has been absent oil; sick leave, will resumo,his duties to-morrow.

Mr. Ghas. Berkeley, of the Walliamson managerial staff, is at present, in AVellington, awaiting the arrival of the now dramatic company headed by Miss Florence Rockwell. Mr. Berkeley says that, according to tho latest advices, there was no improvement in the condition of Mr. Harold Ashton, a director of J. C. Williamson, Ltd.

' Mr. A. H. Cutler, late of the Magfs. : trate's Court, i'lotorua, has taken up the duties of Deputy-Registrar ana Clerk of Awards' in tho AVellington Supreme Court.

Major F. It. M'Mahon, oE the Royal •Engineers (awarded tho Distinguished Service Order), was born in Wcßinglou about thirty years ago, and is the, sou of ths lato Sergeant M/Mahon, who .obtained a modal for : service in the Mounted Constabulary in tho Maori War, and a grandson of tho late Mr. Francis • Dunne, of the Railway Accountants' Department. Major M'Mahon was a. pupil of tho Marist Broth-ers'-School, and later attended school in ( Otago. after which ho graduated at tho Otago School, of Manes.

Acting-Captain Charles AV. Hayes, K.E., to whom the Military Cross has just been awarded, is a son of Mr. John Hayes, formerly Inspecting Engineer of the Minos Department. Act-ing-Captain Hayes, who is an old Wellington College boy, was formerly, on the staff of tho Taupiri Coal Mines, Ltd., at Huntly, and latterly assistant' mining engineer at the largo collieries of Messrs. Cory Bros, and Co., Ltd., in tho fthondda Valley, South Wales. He enlisted as a private at tho outbreak of the war, and was at first drafted to the Royal Fusiliers. Subsequently ho was transferred to Iheßoyal Engineers, whilst in France, winning his promotion as a commissioned officer by morit on the field of battle.

Lieutenant Sidney Murray Wren, son of Mr. James AVren, of Dunediu, has been awarded the Military Cross for distinguished service in tho field. He was an Otago High School boy. Ho wont to Canada, and was in journalistic wor.k when the war broke out. He volunteered with the Canadians, and went to England, being,laid low there with pneumonia, and' could not cross tho Channel with Iris corps, which was gassed, and nearly all died. Reporting to the War Office as soon as fit, young AVren was appointed a military attache lo the Diplomatic Commission to Iho Allies and tho neutral nations. Then'lie served as au attache to the Atrocities Commission. On returning to England from Belgium, lie was made a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and placed on General Fitton's staff. Ho served with the 101 st Division in Franco for two years, and was wounded at tho Snmme. He' is now recovering at Ilford.

Mr. A. Whelan, who leaves foe cainp willi tho 'Twenty-seventh Reinforcements, was 011 Saturday presented with a wristlet watch from tho staff of the .National Provident and Friendly Societies department.

Mr. Charles Carr, of Newbury, lias received advice that his son Laurence is still interned! in Buhleben Camp in Germany, where ho has been since the outbreak of war. He is still in. good health. A' unique- souvenir came to hand from him by last weok's mail in tho shape of a Christmas postcard, printed in'tho camp by interned civilians. Most of theso had been there well over two years, and had suffered grievous hardships.

Tho Eov. H. Van Slavoreu will loavo to-day on a visit to Wauganui, and will return on Thursday. Sir Alfred Robin, the general officer commanding the New Zealand Forces, accompanied by Surgeon-General R,. S. F. Henderson and Captain D. J. 0. Bryan, are visiting Auckland in connection with the arrival of a hospital shipVt that port to-day. ' 1