PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3099, 1 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr. W.-W. Moore. M.D., O'.R.C.P. (London), leaves Napier early this month to take up work in the New Zealand Hospitals in France. The Hon. IT. Dtiffell, a member of the West Australian Legislative Council, who is in New Zealand on holiday, visited Trentham Camp yestorday, rand was shown round by the Camp Commandant (Colonel Potter) and his officers. Mr. Arthur Wright has been appointed chief oflicer of police for tho Island of Niue, under the Cook Island Administration. Mr. John Reid. aged 61, manager of tho New .Zealand Loan and Mercantile 4neney Company at Blenheim, an expresident of the Chamber of Commerce, and for a great number of years prominent in public and commercial life in Marlborough, is dead.—Press Assn. Mr. Joseph Dawson has been reappointed a member of the AVellington 'Land Board.

Dr. H. D. Bedford, Professor of Economics at the Otago University, accompanied by Mrs. Bedford, arrived by the MaraToa from tho south yesterday morning, and proceeded in the afternoon to Featherston, where he addressed the men in the camp last night. Dr. Bedford has been lecturing in southern centres on his recent experiences of war work with the Y.M.C A at. Home. He is to give addresses at Masterton. Hastings, ana other centres, including Wellington.

Mr. J. W. Marshall, of-Marian, has received a cablegram from his son; Mr. .7. AV. H. Marshall, who left with the Sixth Reinforcements, stating that he has been gazetted a lieutenant in: the 3rd Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment. This is a battalion, of the old 65th Regiment, well known in' Wellington in the early days. Lieutenant Marshall is a grandson of Major Marshall, of Tutu Totait, Marten, one of tho officers of the Goth Regiment. Information has been received to tho effect that Staff-Sergeant N. PitzGeruld Eagar, of Wellington, who loft New Zealand with tho Maui Body, has received a commission in the Royal Flying Corps. 'Hie Rev. R-. Franklin, Vicar of St. Barnabas Church, Roseneath, and organising secretary of the Diocesan Schools Board, is visiting Pahiatua. on business iilg tlie board. At the meeting of the Land'Board'yosterdav the Commissioner of Crown Lands reported that Mr. 11. T. Ellinghara had been re-elected unopposed as tho elective member'of the Land Board for a terra of two years, from June 5. The members of the hoard congratulated Mr. Ellingham on his election. Inquiry is made by the officer in charge of estates. Canadian Expeditionary Force, for Mr. Joseph John. Campbell, late of Christchureh, New Zealand. We aro asked to give publicity to this inquiry! as Mr. Campboll is presumed to be tho father of Sapper Jack Campbell, 3rd Canadian Expeditionary Force, deceased, and tho Canadian authorities are anxious to get into touch with the relatives. Possibly amongst our readers someone will bo able to supply tho information required. In view of the fact (hat Sapper Campbell was a soldier who lust his lifo in defence of tho Empire, other New Zealand newspapers will no doubt be glad to assist in the finding of his relatives by giving publicity to the inquiry.