PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3131, 9 July 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey) left for his own electorate by the north express on Saturday. He is to be the guest at a reception at Pukek'ohe this afternoon, aud iu the evening he is to be banqueted. He will join the south-bound train after the banquet to reach Wellington to-morrow afternoon. Lance-Corporal Frank St. George, son of Mr. L. St. George, Ma-sterton has been awarded the Military Medal ior bravery in 'the fieldMessrs. T. and L. Dwan received nfikial ■ advice on Saturday that their nephew, Signal-Sergeant Alouzo V. Vw.yi had been ba<Hv wounded and gassed at the front. It was only on .Tune 27 they received a eableoram to say he had got through the big battle all right. Cabled advice was received on Saturday of the safe arrival in Englaud of Messrs. M W P Lascelles, of Timaru, honorary commissioner of the Y.M.C.A. A Lascelles, field secretary, and G._ W. W. B. Hughes, of Dunedin, supervising secraMγ Man Anderson, of Wellington, has beenYdvised by cablegram that his son, Private .Tames Anderson, of the jNintn Reinforcements, is now in the Brockcnhurst Hospital, England, suffering from a shrapnel wound in the right hand. Mr. P. Selig, manager of the Chrietchurch 'Tress," arrived in Wellington yesterday to attend a meeting of the executive of the Newspaper Proprietors Association to discuss the paper shortage. Captain Baldwin, of the Military Service \ppeal Board, returned to Wellington from the south yesterday. Mr. P. Verschaffelt, secretary to the PuUic Service Commissioner, returned yesterday from his trip to the'south. Mr. Edward J. Brock, of the Union Bank, Greymouth, and formerly of Christchurch, who has been transferred to the Wellington branch, arrived on Saturday to take up his new duties. At its meeting on Saturday evening, the Onslow Borough Council passed a resolution of sympathy with the family of the late Mr. Kennedy, who died at i p.m. on Saturday. Mr.' Kennedy had been in the employ"of tho Onslow Borough Council for a period of 22 years, and was road foreman until a fow weeks ago, H9 had been ill for some time,

Second-Lieutenant G. 1\ E. Hall, of the Royal Engineers, who was killeo.. , in action in France on June 28, was th*> son of Jlr. and Mrs. G. A. H. Hall, of Lower Hutt. He was educated at the Hutt School, where he gained a scholarship. He i|.hen went tx> Wellington College," where he passed the Matriculation and Junior Civil Service examinations with credit, at the same time gaining a flpnior scholarship. He then proceeded to Canterbury University College, where, he studied for civil engineering, when h» received an appointment as county engineer to the Waimariuo County Council* subsequently taking'up an appointment under the New South Wales Public Service Board. For health reasons he returned to New Zealand and took up an. appointment with the Wairoa CountyCouncil. At the outbreak of the war, having special business in England, he travelled via America, where he enlisted in the West Kent Yeomanry, with which, body he saw active service at the Dardinelles From there he was invalided to Ing and, and after recovery received an appointment in the Royal *»™ : gineers Officers' Training.Corps, AweA, where he'gained a commission as second licntennnt.