PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3112, 16 June 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. Fraser is expected to- tp> turn from Auckland this afternoon. Kir Francis Bell was a passenger bjthe Maori for the south last evening. Thp following school appointments in Ihe Wellington Education . District are announced:—Poriniii-f headmaster, Mr. W. D. Bennett; Brooklyn, appointment, Mr. W. A. Manning; Ma.— terton, assistant, war appointment, Mrs. Wilkinson; Northland, assistant, Mies .T. S. Johnston; Nireaha, assistant, Miss M. Morrison; Gladstone, assistant. Mies h. Torr; Maranui,- assistant. Miss" J. C. M'Donald; Wadestown, assistant, Miss A. G. Tebbs; Wadestown, assistant,-. Miss A; Carrey; Paekakariki. assistant, Miss 51. L. Campbell. Lieuteniiut Howard M. Glazebrook, or dive (only son of IT. J. • Glazebrook, of '"The Washpool." Hasting), who volunteered for' active service over b. year a"o and entered camp- in January- Inst, has by some error been drawn in-the last ballot. Lieutenant -Glawbrook who shortly leaves New Zealand with thfl Twenty-eighth Eeinforcement? - held a commkon.prior to,his ™ llsf rf *^< 1 was attached to the- 9th. Mounted Eifles. Mrs Drewitt, of ■ Paraparaumu lias been advised that her son, Private I). TJovd Drewitt was seriously wounded on Juno 4, and is now lying-dangerously ill \ ,t the 2nd Casualty Cleamiff Station in ; France. Private D. L. Drewitt, with his brother Knymond, left with the 16th Beinforcenients, and they have been in Prance since the end of Isovember, 1916. -a . The trustees appointed by the Wellington Orchestral Society on Thursday evenin- were Messrs. W. J, Harland, Tombs, and Bernard F, Page. Jlr "W J. Mains, who is coming to organise the' religious .work of the National Council of the \oung Men s Chris-tian-Association, is-expected to arrive from Auckland this afternoon. . -Mr. Mains has for many years occupied a. responsible position with Jtesp. Saigood, Son, and Ewen in Auckland, and * well known as an experienced Christian worker and a forcible and effective Bpeiikor. ITe i? <rinmr up his present, position to join the Y.51.C.A as an honorary worker. Mr. Mains will speak at the "association rcoins, in -Willis Street, at, 4 o'clock to-morrow afternoon on the subject "What is* a Christian?" Mr. M. H. Dixon, schoolhouse, Gladstone, formerly assistant .master, Wellington College, has received offipial notification that his son, Rifleman .1. H. Dixon, who left New Zealand with the Seventh Beinforceiiients, has been honourably discharged as unfit for further service", in consequence of a wound re;ceived in the fight against the Senussi in Egypt. He will return to New Zealand shortly. Captain J. Bollons, of the Government steamer Hinemoa, who was operated on in a private hospital on Thursday, was reported yesterday to liave passed a tan night. The ■Wellington representatives of Messrs. Lever Brothers have been advised that Sir William Lever, who has been raised to the peerage, has chosen as his title Lord Leverhulnie. Lieutenant' Stewart Gordon. M'Donald, of the ist Battalion Otago Begiment (seriously wounded), left ■ Duncdm witli the Main Body, and served through the Gallipoli campaign. While on the Peninsula he was slightly wounded, and invalided for a time to Malta suffennff from shell shock. He joroeji the ranks as a private, and has won his promotion since going to France. Lieutenant M Donald is a solicitor by profession, and was with the firm of Messrs. Webb and Allen Dunedin. Ho is a nephew of Mr. J. M'Donald, of the Dominion Museum. Mrs. Victor Powell has received a cable message, from her husband, stating that he has been wounded, and is m ttewond Chelsea Hospital, Tendon. SeeondLieutenant Victor Powell is the second son of Mrs. E. Powell, Grant Eoad Her eldest son, Chaplam-Major V E. .(-•• " • Powell, is in France.

Mr C W. Jones has received cable advice from London that his'son, '.nil Lieutenant Cecil , Jones, is wounded.