PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3079, 9 May 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. A. E. Jull was-yesterday unanimously re-elestcd chairman of the Napier Harbour Board. ' ' ■-.

Mr. Allan Sanell, 8.A., of Dunedin, has received notice of his appointment to the staff of the Wellington Boys 5 - College.

Mr. J. E. Palmer (Town Clerk), who; has been oil his annual leave, has .takenup his duties once more. '. j

Major G. E. Blackett, M.C., who lefK New Zealand as a lieutenant' in tha-. Nelson squadron of the Canterbury! 1 Mounted Regiment, in the Main Body;'; of tho New Zealand Expeditionary;'; Force, and who won tho Military Cros* and promotion on the field at Gallipoly! has been attached to. the staff of tho'l Canterbury military district. . ■

Among the soldiers who returned to , ': Auckland on Sunday vas-Ete. C. B.; Wheeler, who was for many years a; purser in the service of the Union S.S. Company. He is the"eldest- son of: Major Wheeler, of Devonport. : Pte-i Wheeler is obliged to use crutches, bub is on the road to recovery. ■ News has been received in Petone of the death of Mr. George Barnett at Dunedin. Deceased was a-native o£ Dunedin, but had resided in Pefone for some ten years, where he was employed as a wood turner in the Railway Workshops.' He was a ; member of tho Petone Bowling Club, and a.prominent member of the 1.0. G.T. lodge. Deceased' was ■on a visit to Dunedm for health reasons. . ; Nelson papers record the death of Mr "W 0. Harley, eighty-two years of a Oho had been closely identified with Nelson, for a great number, of years, but. for'some considerable time had not been engaged, in active business. Until recently, however/he was. a familiar figure in and about.the city.; The late Mr. Harley leaves a widow and a son and daughter, Captain Carol Harley. who is at present home on sick leave from the front,..and Miss 0. Harlev, of Nelson. .The other son, the late Captain H. S. Harley, was killed in action in France some months ago.

-Corpl.-A. AV. Brown, who went away, with the Main Body, and fought, through the .Gallipoli campaign, and is: now in France, has been awarded the D.C.M. "for conspicuous gallantry m' action. He established and maintained; communications, and frequently repaired wires under very heavy fire. , Corpl. Brown was. prior to enlisting, on the; Wanganui telegraph office staff, and was very prominent in v atnletic circles, especially as a footballer. ■ ' Mr: Rowland Luke (eldest son of Mr. C. M.Luke, president of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce),; who was appointed,' seven or eight months ago. manager at Hamilton for Messrs. J. 3. Niven and Co., has'been, seriously ill. About a- fortnight ago': he became iinwell,'and on Sunday week' if was found necessary'to'.operate on : him for appendicitis. The case'was acomplicated one, and for some; days the patient's condition was The latest advice received by his rela-. tives is that he is now out'of danger, a decided improvement bei;*; reported.; ' Mr" M AV. P. Lascelles, of Timaru, the New Zealand Y.M.C.A. Commissioner .to England.. leaves' \Y eljuigton to-morrow for Hastings.

Mr Vincent Ward, second son of Sir Joseph Ward, has obtained a commission in the 11.N.V.R- Mr. AVard vas in Canada, when war broke out, and about that time had a nervoue breakdown, due to overwork. He has endeavoured on several occasions to get a. commission in the-. Army, and was for some time ■ in • an officers', training corps; but was again put on the sick list. He is now an assistant-paymaster in the .R.NXR. . Lieut. Gladstone Ward. A.S.C., Sir Joseph Ward's third sou, left recently for an eastern theatre, probably Mesopotamia. ■■■ : Lieut; E. J. Hawthorne, whor sustained serious injuries as-;a; result or stopping a runaway horse and gig near Colombo Street,- Christchurch, ■ is progressing favourably (says the "Lyttelton Times"). ■:

An exchange reports the death of Mr. William M'lnnes, of Port Chalmers, in his eighty-sixth year. Air. M'tnnes took a prominent part m the later 'sixties in developing the fishing industry, shipping quantities of fash to Australia, at a time when.the Government were endeavouring to establisn an export fish trade. He was nine times Mayor of Port Chalmers. A civic reception was accorded to Lance-Corporal B. W. Hills on _ his return to Ranpiora on Friday last. Lce.Corpl. Hills left Now Zealand with the Main Body of Canterbury Mounted men as a trooper. He-saw service on >allipoli, where he was wounded m the wrist bv a rifle bullet, and invalided ! home to England, After a stay of six ! months in- England he returned to Eeypt-' and received the "wound that has given' him his discharge,. The second time he was wounded m the-head, the bnllet entering abovethe right eye, narrowly missing the. brain, and coming out at ..the .back of the head.y.