PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3191, 15 September 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. Arthur M. llypr?.- Jlinisler of Customs and Munilions and 'iiipplie?,left for Auckland bv yeslerday's express, and will return lo Wcilinglon on Tuesday.

ill- \ilams. one-time -t res.idcnt of Foxton, is inliospital at Manchester ftiiforinu from an injury to his eye. caused br being struck, while on duty in Fiance, with a piece of plaster dislodged by a Gorman bomb.

Captain Bollons has recovered sufficiently from his serious illness to take chiir"e once more of the Government steamer Hinemon as from Monday next.

Mr. Dutton, 1M1.C.0., organist of St. Sepulchre's, at Auckland, is reported to bo seriously ill. Messrs. Harold Gregson-and J. F. Mon-l-a-iie, of Auckland, who hove been net- | in° as judges of the mixed elocutionnry ■contests in Dunedin, passed through WelliiiKton on their way north yesterday. • Corporal Eric Sowry. loth lieinforceincnts who was shot in the Lead bv a sniper and was reported dangerously ill is returning to Wellington. Mr. and Jlrs. A.. Sowry, of Manganiairc, arc m Wellington, and will remain here v.ntll their son arrives. ■ Jlr Percy Crawford, who is well known in Sew Zealand, is now business manager for the Ada Eeeve Company, at present in Auckland. ' Owing to failing health, Mr. James W "Witty, the veteran chess player, has tenderafhis resisnation as presidentot the Gisborne Chess Club, an office he has so capably filled for many years He has been a chess player for over ,u ' The many friends of Rifleman A. S.. H. (Harry) Death, No. 20,115, youngest son of Mrs. Death and tho late Mr Oliver Death, of Pahautamn, will regret to learn that he was killed in action on August 19. He was born at Pahnii; tanui 22 years .iro. Rifleman Death enlisted in April. 1916, and left with the Sixteenth lUinfoicements. .He was sli"htly wounded, in the Messines name in June, and.went back to the firing lino in July. . . 4. verv pleasant little lunclieon took place at"the Commercial Iravellors Club vesterdav, the occasion bem? a presentation to' Mr. John Fuller, of. I.evin.aiul Co.'s staff of travellers, whe, after uauy vears on the road .has now taken up iiiIX "duties. His brother-travellers, mindful of Ws eterling.dualities, me socially, drink his very good health, and present- ■ edhhn with an address and an fold watch, the kindliest «nttmc»te bein- given expression .to by M es fJ-'- J ,- ■•'• Kinmbur- E. W. Gibbs. and other travelei" Mv Mer replied in terms of the fullest appreciation of ine honour done him. ' AVr -R T Wray, agency manager torZealand of tlfe Colonial L, e Assurance Society, Limited, recently uturned from a business trip .to A«"«»lia, via Auckland, and is now in WellingtoSer«eant M'Keefrey, of North Dime, din has been promoted to Minor s». •«eant and will be stationed at Wellington South-Press Association. The Defence Department have notified the relatives of Signal-Sergeant Alonzo P. Dwan that he is still in the ™ Thames Hospital, London in the same state of health as when last reported He was wounded on June 21, A leltei was received from him this week, in which he said he had undergone, an operation, but was Belting better He also, stated that two of hie signallers got the Military Medal; one was blown to pieces, and gdl: the D.C.M.; one had his leg off three were badly gassed, and four wounded, and he .himself was .recommended for a commission, all during tho Messines fight. His many friends will be pleased to hear the good accounts of these boys, who were all-members of the 3rd Battalion' New Zealand Pane BnS a<le : . ...