PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3106, 9 June 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the. Governor has received advice- that His Majesty the King has been graciously, pleased to confer the honour of Companion of the Alost uistingnished Order o£ St.. Michael and St. George (C.M.G.) upon Captain P. H. Hall-Thompson. R.N., Naval Adviser to tbo Government of New Zealand.

Captain W. M. Bell, NfS.C., until recently Camp Adjutant at Trentbam and now attached to the Twenty-sixth Bernforcenieiits as Staff officer, was entertained at. luncheon in tho Stall officers mess of that camp yesterday. At the time of war being declared, Captain Bell jraj adjutant of the 7th Southland Mounted Rifles and shortly afterwards was made Group Commander at-Invercargill.;l'rom that post ho was transferred, in August. 1015. to Trentbam Camp as assistant .adjutant. Twelve months later, on-the departure of Captain Dovey for the front. Captain Bell became R(l]utant. .-Hie Trenthnm Camp Staff will entertain Captain Bell at a private dinner to-night. Mr. James Colvin, M.P. for Buller. is a visitor to Wellington. He will remain here now until after the approaching session of Parliament.

'Mr. .T. B. Laurenson. of Christohurch, is a visitor to Wellington.

Mr. .T. A. Rishworth has resigned tho position of honorary denial surgeon to tho Auckland General Hospital, owing to his appointment as director of dental services.

Tho Rev. W. C. Willoughby, of South Africa, is paying a visit to Auckland. Ho is accompanied by Mrs. AVilloughby.

Cable advice has been' received that Sergeant Gordon Kinvig, son of Mr. R. C. Kinvig, of Wellington,, has, after a month's training at Salisbury, been granted a commission.- The young New Zealander, who was a member of • the Oriental Football Clubhand a representative Rugby player, .left hero in the 12th Infantry as sergeant, and on joining the Force in Franco went- back to tho ranks. Since that, however, ho lias had eight months' night work in tln> trenches, and worked his way up to corporal, and now has received his commission as lieutenant

Sub-Lieutenant Hal M. W. Atkinson, an ex-Wellington College boy, younger son of Mr. Tudor Atkinson, of Wellington (whoso name inadvertently appears in the last ballot), left New Zealand some eighteen months ago, and soon after his arrival. in London got a commission from the Admiralty in tho R.N.V.R., Motor Boat Section. After passing through his course of instruction at Greenwich and Portsmouth, he did duty on a drifter north of Scotland. He is now in a motor launch, submarine hunting in the English Channel. His elder brother, Mr. Esmond H. Atkinson, is also :\ 6ub-lieutenant in the R.N.V.R.. and is now on duty in a larger ship somewhere in the southern areas of the North Sea.

Lieiit.-Colonel J. A. Cowles has reported at Trentham Camp, and has been attached to tho 2Cth Reinforcements.

Mr. F. W. Mountjoy, manager of the Invercargill Branch of Messrs. Fletcher Bros., Ltd., builders and contractors, of Dunedin, has been transferred to Wellington, and takes over tho management of the firm's business in this city.

Surgeon-General Henderson (DirectorGeneral of Medical Services) and Major J. L. Sleeman (Director of Military Training) loft for Wanganui yesterday. ; Today tliey were to attend manoeuvres at Awapuni Camp, where the medical drafts in training are to have a field day. They will return to Wellington to-morrow.

News has been received of the death at Auckland on Thursday night of an old colonist in the person of Mr. J. C. Morrin, at one time a prominent business matt of Auckland. Mr. Morrin arrived in Auckland as far back as the 'fifties, and was a well-known personality in the city until his retirement some ten or twelve years ago, since which time ho has been a resident of Otahuhu. Deceased had reached the ago of 87. He leaves n widow and a grown-up family, including Mr. L. Morrin. of Cambridge, Mr. C. Morrin, of Auckland, Mr. Vincent Morrin, recently returned from the front, Mrs. R. W. S. BalkuTtvnc, of Wellington, Mrs. A. Littler, of Auck-' land. Mrs. W. ,T. Geddis, of Napier. Mrs. J ['Bee of 'Otahuhu, and Miss Morrin.

Lieutenant-Commander Wybranls 01pliert, D.S.C., has received the further decoration of D.5.0., but the Admiralty lias not given out particulars of what tho honour was received for. Lieuten-ant-Commander Olphert, who is a. oon-in-law of ilr. R. (J. Tennent, of Invercargill, was at the outbreak of the war chief officer of tho R.M.S. Roiuuera, and, being a member of the Royal Naval Reserve, was immediately recalled by"the .Admiralty, and was given a command in Home waters, where he has earned' not only steady promotion, but two highly-' prized decorations. Tho officer is well known throughout New Zealand, and has been attached to the New' Zealand Shipr>\ns Company for about twenty. -seta's,': ■;