PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3171, 23 August 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. Robert Triggs, Assistant Public Service Commissioner, who has been indisposed for four or fivo days past, has almost recovered liis normal health. At the Commercial Travellers' Club on Monday Sir James Carroll was presented -ivith a wristlet watch as a birthday present from his friends. The presentation was happily made by Mr. F. W. Manton. Sir James Carroll feelingly replied to the well-expressed felicitations.

Mr. B. E. H. Whitcomlie. who has been general manager of the firm of Messrs. Whiteombe and Tombs for the past eight years, has been appointed managing director in place of the late Mr. G. H. Whitcombe.

Captain H. 13. M'Kinnon, who has had a bar added to his Military Cross, .left Carterton with the Main Expeditionary Force, with the rank of lieutenant, lie was wounded ou Gallipoli, but afterwards, recovered and proceeded to France, where he was promoted to a captaincy. Cable advice has been received that Mr. Claude S. Hnmerton, of 7 Boiilcott Terrace who has been for some years engineer' in the Atlantic' Transport Line, is now serving in the Navy as enpneor-sub-lieutenant, and is with the Mediterranean Fleet.

The death i« announced at the age of 75 of Mr. William Cleland, one of the best-known residents of the Hutt Valley. The late Mr. Cleland was a son of Captain Cleland, one of the early settlers in Wellington, and had lived at the Taita for the greater.part of his Mo. He carried on a etorckeeping business there for. many years. Ho was chairman nf the local School Committeo for a very Ion" period. His wife died about three years ago. Ho left no family. He was a brother of the late Mr. Robert Cleland, and a nenlicw of the lnte Mr. J. Cleland, of Tiunkori Road. Word has been received by Mrs. Donald Ogilvie, Fendalton, Cliristchurch, that fier brotlior, Lieutenant George MTiroy, Seventeenth' Reinforcements, has been promoted captain on the field. Private advice has been received that Captain Tahu Rhodes, 1 who rejoined the Grenadier Guards after Gallipoli, and, hns been training men at Chelsea, has now been passed as fit for active service, and.has gone to France. •Mr. T. Thompson, an Association football enthusiast, and a member of the committee of the Football Association for some years, died in Auckland yesterday. Mr. Thompson, who had been ill for some time,- was ordered to the northern citv, where it was hoped he would recover, but instead ho got worse, and died. At the meeting of tho committee of tho Football Association last evening a voto of condolonco witb tho deceased's family waa passed. The deceased is survived by a widow and three young children.

Mr. James Alexander, who after 13 years' connection with the local Telegraph Office, is leaving tc take up the position of superintendent at Wangnnui, was presented with a handsome cantoon of cutlery V -he members of the telegraph and tolophono staffs! Mr. Talbot, superintendent, said they all regretted losing such a popular and efficient official, but expressed delight at his piomotion. Mr/'Alexander feelingly replied, stating that parting from 1 an office whero ho had spent some of the happiest days of his career was somewhat of a wrench. He thanked all tho officers for their kind present. 'Mr.- Alexandor, who is tho telegraph representative on tho Appeal Board, leaves for Wanganni at the completion of tho board's sitting.