PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3047, 7 April 1917, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS

K Press Association message .states .jtihat Major-General Sir Harry Barron, late Governor of Western Australia, has arrived in England. v • *.ilr.- John. Cullen, ex-Commissioner of ;Police, has: arrived in Auckland and intends to make his permanent resi.dence there.' ■'■:' A ■ i Gunner :H, B. .Ooad; of the No. 9 Company, N.Z.G.A., who has served ./both at the forts and with the Expedi- j .itjonarx Forces'• since"the outbreak of • -jthe,war, was'wounded'.by shrapnel in ._ Jtihe legs and arms during the; Somme -•,puslu ■ He is now convalescent and at .the No. 2 General : Hospital,' Waltonr • bn-Thames. Gunner Coad r had a pro.jvidentiaT escape, as a Bhrapnel snell ■ ybursi) in; his dug-out, killing his comr -panjons.'; "■■ <•"' Mr. F. H» Guinness, of the Chief -.-■iPost- Office,'. Buinedin'i has been pro'znofcedto the position of staff, clerk at the Chief Post Office, Auoklahd. ■-. :.'AV very '-. well-known commercial : traveller—Mr. J.- S. Brown,, traveller for ■ English paper njanufaotnrers and .■printing machinery—is reported to when a prisoner of. war in •iGenriany on"; January.'7last. He/went to the front with" .one of, the AUstra--v Han- drafts last year. ,\ i -.Mr. J.- Hutchison,:secretary of-the .... -New Zealand Boot Operatives' Fedora-: ■ tion, has .been-elected secretary of the-.-.(Wellington Tramways.-Union. ...There "••■ -were five candidates for. ,the position, .'.and a second ballot was necessary".; "_ :• Sergeant •• Ji. • O'Hailoran,'.. of the ' ■•• Lambton Quay Police Station, has been to Dannevirke. He will " "be: succeeded by. Sergeant Mathieson,of Dunedin. .■-•■-.. . Mr.. N: Rowe and Mr.'. E, N. Horni- ; brook are on.a visit.io the south for ■ 'a short holiday; previous to.entering camp. ■. ■-:■,• / Mrv G. Redstone, of Gisborne, is a yisitox to Wellington.. ' ■ " Staff-6'ergt. Keith Little, of • Wellington, who went away with the Main Body on the clerical staff of MajorGeheral Godley, was among those who gave evidence before' the Dardanelles Commission in London. Staff-Sergt • Little, was formerly ■ connected with •The Dominion literary staff: ■'•'.} Mr. H. G. Hill, >h6 floated the Nelson Fruitpaokers, Limited, and has "■ since, been its ' general manager, has '■:' tendered his resignation in consequence '•' of continued' ill-health. '; At; a meeting ;."of directors, on : .Wednesday lastjthe '!■; /resignation'.was accepted' with- regret,. ;'.- : aridLa fesolutiott was adopted.expressing " appreciation Of the' .excellent' "services rendered by"Mf. : Hill in organising the ■ fruit industry j the formation and flotaand ijs'man.age'meni. l; ';' /,: •■'■••:'"■ ''■-■•"■'<• ;■'■. •;;•= "Captain F-' J: Osborn-Smith has re- ' linquished bis position as.; attestation y 'pfficeFto "the Second- Canterbury Medi"cal Board, and' has been succeeded by ; iLieiit. E. H.'S. Batchelor:' .' . Another- of the early Canterbury, settlers* in the person, of Mr-George Weston, died on Maroh" 31 at the residence •of Ms eldest son, Kaimata, Inglewood. . Born nearly ninety-phe years ago at Hallsham, Sussex, England; .he arrived '< in' Canterbury sixty-four years ago with nis wife and one child. Though totally. 1 blind for the last three: years, he was ." very active bothimejiially and phyßically. He celebrated his diamond wed- ' 'dine five years ago. Mr. Weston is survived 1 , by his wife, who is in her ninety-second year, four, sons and three 'daughters, and his grandchildren ■ and ; great-grandchildren number.eighty. ..'■; • Second-Lieut. Neil tf.MX'ean, Rifle. Brigade, whose promotion to the rank '' of iuniorßubaltern in the New Zeaalnd : Expeditionary Force was: reported" on '' Wednesday, is a son- of Mr. Murdoch : WLean.-Mayor of M°unt:Albeif. Auck-; \ He'left"New Zealand in.Optober -i 915, and has been" promoted from the ranks to a".;!'" -.:•:;-,.,.'.. ■' ,/s ;py': ; -Kennetb~M'Ken2iie ; fand "Dr.:; C: I:, !Tr%P^Mter7 : 'say's'' :; -the';- i !Ne'w'".''.Herald,"-' nave'\v6lunteered for service ' "i'at tie 'front, iu'respohse to:an appeal .; for. 1 more military doctors by Surgeon- '. ,"• General It- S. F. Henderson. They have to the Hospital Board tobe relieved of duty at the hospital. Lieut. J. D. Campbell, of Regiment 6, Hauraki, has been advised that he has .gained a firstrclass pass with honours in=the examination in ballooning and observation which he attended in: ■ England.. The lieutenant was convalescent after being wounded:when he . sat', after passing the aviation tests.