PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3025, 12 March 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Dalton (H.M. Trado Commissioner) and Mrs. Dalton will return to Wellington from tho south to-morrow evening.

Brigadier-General Sir Alfred Robin, Officer Commanding tho Forces, is on a visit to Dunedin. He is expected to return to Wellington on Wednesday morning.

Lieut.-Colonel W. L. H Burgess, D.5.0., who was formerly of New Zealand, and who was attached to tho Australian Forces -when the war broko out, has lately been awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honour. Ho went to Egypt with tho Main Body of tho Australian Forces.

Dr. Stephenson, of Dunedin, has been accepted! for military service, and will go into camp ininediately.

The post of chief musketry instructor to the Now Zealand military camps will change hands to-day, when Captain Wallingford, who won the Military Cross Jit Gallipoli, will take over from Captain- Purdon. Captain Pardon will leave shortly on active service. He has held the post of military instructor since tho tamps were established, and his work has been regarded as of tho very best.

Gunner Douglas Koir Gibb, who arrived in Wellington by tho hospital ship Matama on Wednesday last, died at tho Victoria Military Hospital on Saturday afternoon, from cerebrospinal meningitis, contracted during tho voyago out. Tho Into Gunner Gibb was tho elder son of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Gibb, of Central Terrace, Kelburn, for whom much sympathy will he felt. Ho left with tho Main Body of tho Now Zealand Expeditionary Forco, and went through tho Gallipoli campaign, afterwards serving in Franco, being wounded on tho Sonimo in Octoher last. Mr. Gibb's younger son, Alan, is'at present on a-otivo service with tho Nineteenth Reinforcements. Tho family has iust recently sustained a bereavement in tho death of Mr. Gibb's brother, the late Mr., W.. ~S. 6ibo, whose demise was recorded in Tun Dominion a tew ivcka age. Mr. H. 0. W. M'Kcllar, of Ouariii, has been invited by tlio National Efficiency Board, to compile statistics nf tho farms and properties in llio Ohariu and Makara districts. Cabled notification has been received that Lieutenant J. A. M'Keefry, of tho Tivonty-fifth Reinforcements, has passed tho final soction for tho LLB. degree.' Ho is a son of Sergeant M'Keefry, of the. Duuedin North Police Station. ~i. .Tolin Fuller, son., of Auoklaiul, who lias just, completed a. motor tour of tho South Island, is a visitor to Wellington. Mr. J. D. Anderson, M.Se., who is at present a member of tho stall' of tho Wangauni Collegiate School, and who was .1915 nominee from Otago for the .Rhodes Scholarship, has been appointed to the position of science masi tor at tho Southland Boys' High School, Lpf iv&ioli ha. is an old be*

Miss 0. E. Bertiiold, who has been appointed assistant borough clerk at tho Lower Hutfc, recently occupied a stmttar post at Foxton.

Corporal ft. Harding, formerly engineer to Iho Oroua County Council and now ii member of Uio Tivcnticth _ Engineers, has been presented with a wristlet compass hy his deer-stalking friends in tho Maiia'watu district.