PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3110, 14 June 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James Allen left for Auckland and Roborua yesterday morning. Ho will return to Wellington on .Tuesday. Tho Hon. W. Eraser wont north by tho Main Trunk train yosterday on Public Works business. Colonel Claridge and lieutenants Hamilton and Saunders havo arrived in.New Zealand from abroad. Lieutenant G. S. Collyns, New Zealand Tunnelling Company, who -been awarded the Military Cross, is "the youngest son of tho late Mr. A. W.' Collyns, well known in Marlborough and Nelson. Lieutenant Collyns. who ie nn engineer, was educated at Nelson and Canterbury Colleges. .. - The Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. W. Tl'. Hagger) will loave for Nelson on Monday to preside at a Conciliation Council meeting to deal with the carpenters' dispute. Afterwards ho will proceed to the West Coast in connection with tho mining cases which, are to come. I before the council. Mr. Charles Hill, sen., celebrated his 85th birthday on Tuesday. To mark the occasion the members of the Te Hiwi Bowling Club, of which Mr. Hill is life president, visited him at his home, Island Bay, that night. Mr. S. Brinsden presented Mr. Hill with an electric-reading lamp, and his health was drunk with much enthusiasm. Sub-Lieutenant H. Vivian Haszard, of Waihi, who left early in December last to join the motor patrol service in England, has, with ten other New Zealanders, obtained, at the Royal National College, Greenwich, the highest pass in tho service, gaining what is described as the "oxcellent" pass. No fewer than 900 candidates, took part in the special patrol course, of whom only 40 obtained the "excellent," and, as already stated, ten .of these were New Zealanders. Mr. J. D. Martin M'lntyre, who,_ recently underwent a severe operation in a private hospital, and lias been recuperating at Eotorua, has returned to Wellington. At the birthday gathering of the Te Hiwi Bowling Club on Tuesday night, a presentation was made to Mr.' W. Wiggins, .who has occupied the position of lion, treasurer of the club for some years.' Mr. Wiggins has volunteered for the Expeditionary Force, and is attached to tho New Zealand Field Artillery. He will leave with the next reinforcements. Very complimentary references were made to him as a bowler, and good wishes were expressed for his career as a soldier. Mrs. Drewitt, of Paraparaumu, has been advised that her son, Private D. L. Drewitt, was severely wounded on June i, and is lying dangerously ill in the second casualty clearing station in France. Privato D. L. Drewitt and Ins brothei-, R. L. Drewitt, both left last August with tho Sixteenth P.eiuforceraents, and have been in France since the end of November, 1916. News of tho death in action of Chaplain M'Menamin, formerly of Petone, wa9 received in Wellington yesterday by His Grace ATclibishop O'Shea. Chaplain M'Menamin left New Zealand with the First Reinforcements, and went through the Gallipoli campaign, later being invalided back to New Zealand. He returned to the front over twelve mouths age. He was about 3G years of age, and was a verv capable officer. As senior Catholic chapfaiu with the Expeditionary Forces lie was popular with all ranks of the service. His death will be regretted by all who knew him as a genial and courageous personality. Mr. Alexander StewaTt, who died in Dunedin this week, in his 32nd year, held a unique positiou among Otago schoolmasters, having been lor W years head- ' master of the Union Street School aud the "old fitono school" that occupied the same site. In. that period—from 1862 to 1907—he had associated with him as his stall' many men who have attained distinction in educational and other spheres, notably the Chief Justice (Sir Robert 'Stout), Professor White, Mr. Murray (formerly inspector at Now Plymouth), and the late Mr. Braik (inspector at Wnnganni). Similarly many of his old scholars are now men-of mark in this and other communities. Amongst these are numbered Sir Thomns Mackenzie, the Rov \. Cameron, aud Sir Alfred Robin. Mr Stewart was born in Edinburgh m 1835. and educated in that city. He came to New Zealand in the ship Silistn in ISGO. He was a staunch Presbyterian, and the senior elder at Knox Church to. the time of his death.I Lieutenant Howard M. Glazebrook, or Clive who volunteered for active service ■ ov»r'ii vear ago and ha; been m camp since last January will leave shortly with the Twenty-eolith Reinforcements. Lieutenant has hold a commission in tho 9to (W.E.C.) Mounted Rifles since November, 1910. The Rev. Father Dore, a chaplain, who was wounded at Gallipoli, is now only able to move about with the assistance of sticks, and is at present the guest ot Monsignor M'Kenna, at Mnsterton.

Inspector Marsack. of the Wellington Police Force, has been notified by cable message that his second sou, Sergeant Cvril Marsncfc, was killed in action m Vriinco on Juno C. The sad news was dispatched from Franco by Lieutenant Charles Marsack, the deceased lad s elder brother. Both sons were fighting with the 3rd Battalion of the New Zealand Hide Brigade, and Cyril was first injured (slightly) ftt Hie fight for Piers, when his platoon, which went into the battle fortv-nine strong, was reduced by casualties to twelve. The late sergeant was 23 vears of age. 'He was born in Christchureb, and went to the .Auckland Grammar School in 1906. Ho remained at tho school about tlirco years and then joined tho Northern. Stoam Shio Couijiany as a olerfc.