PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3060, 23 April 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James 'Allen and the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald returned to Wellington from tho West Coast yesterday morning. , ' i Sir Francis Bell returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday morning. Tlio Rev. C. Harvey, vicar of Wadestown and Northland, will go into camp on Wednesday as an Army chaplain. Captain G. Harris, of the Canter- , bury Mounted lliflos, who was tiansferred to the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion in France and killed in action in September, 1916, was mentioned in dispatches by Sir Douglas Haig for gallant conduct in the field. Captain Harris at tho time he received Ids fatal wound -was engaged in laying cut trenches when struck by slu\ii>iiel lire. Mr.' Colin Munro, secretary for Messrs. Dimock and Co., who was operated upon for appendicitis in a private hospital a few weeks ago, is still conlined to his bed. Through the agency of a blood-clot he has'.temporarily lost tho uso of ono of his legs, but hopes are entertained for his speedy recovery. . Harry Elsmore Howard, second lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers, who served with the New Zealauders in Gallipoli, has died of wounds.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. • , Advice has been received that Lieutenant A. G. Reid, R.N.M.C. (soil of Air. James Reid, Milton, and brother of the Bw. J. S. Beid, Dunsandel), has had conferred upon him the Military Cross for conspicuous , bravery in.the recent fighting at tho front. Mr. Thornhill Cooper, jun., late manager of tho Dunback Gold and Scheelite Company, who is at present undergoing a course of training at the Narrow Neck Camp, Auckland, has accepted a ; lieutenancy in the Tunnelling Corps Reinforcements. Lieutenant Cooper .is a son of Mr. Thornhill Cooper, of Christehurch,

Mr. J. S. Munro, of Pnlmorston North, has received advice that tho Military Court of Inquiry has declared his eldest son Jack (previous!.': reported missing since the big offensivo of the New Zealand Division at Flers on September 15, 1916) now killed in action. Tho deceased soldier was born in "Palmerston, and in his" school life achieved great success. After twelve months at Victoria College ho went to Otago University as an art student, with a view to.eventually entering the ministry of tho Presbyterian Church. He was resident in Knox College up to tho end of the last term in 1915, when he volunteered for active service; joining tlie 13th Reinforcements.

In reference to the disposition of the Grey scholarship for this year (says the "New Zealand-Herald") it turns out that M. G. Pezaro, who stood at the head of the list of competitors after N. A. Jory had resigned the scholarship, is also foregoing his right to the honour, seeing that he has already won a university "scholarship, and cr.nuot hold both. As G. Bell is disqualified by reason of his transfer ,to another college, it seems certain that the scbcb.rship will fall to E. M. Winter, win" was fourth in tho examiners' awsrJ. Dr. K. M'Kenzie on Tuesday night was re-appointed an honourary suvgeon at the Auckland Hospital. Dr. M'lfenzie is shortly proceeding to the frc.nt, and his work at the hospital will be undertaken by Drs. Millsom ar.d M'Dowell. Mr. j?. G. Scott-Smith, town clerk of Northcote, Auckland, has resigned, and Mr. G. T. Oxley, of Birkeuliead, has been appointed to the vacancy.