PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3194, 19 September 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Hon. A. M. Myers returned from Auckland yesterday.

Advice has been received that Mr.' F. G. Massey, eon of the Prime Minister, who left New Zealand with tlie rank of lieutenant in the 'Riflo Brigade, has been transferred on promotion to the Eleventh Lancashire Guards with the ..rank 1 of major.

Sir Jolin Findlay, Mr. C. J. Purr, Mr. C. P. Skerrett, Judge and Mrs. HasoldeD, Mr. G. Laing Meason, Mr. Gerald Fitzgerald, and Lieutenant j Colonol Young are at present 6taying at tlie Rutland Hotel, Wanganui.

Dr. and lira. Baldwin liave arrived in Wellington from Rarotonga. Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., who went to Botorua to recuperate his health, has IVturned to "Wellington, and resumed his Magisterial duties yesterday. Corporal Pryor, son of Mr. William Pryor (secretary of the Employers Federation) has returned to Wellington, from the Western front. The upper part or his riglit arm was soverely lacerated by shrapnel in the attack on Messines Ridge, and tlio full Use of the injured member may be permanently afEected. His general health is good. It was intended that Mr. Thomas Bgan, the gifted Irish oporatio and concert tenor, should visit New Zealand and Australia this year, but according to a private letter received yesterday, ' war complications have caused him to postpouo his visit to a later date." Among those ivlio returned to Wellington yesterday from England was Lieutenant G. B. MacMorran, son of Mr. Goorgo MacMorran (headmaster of tno Torrace School), who sustained a serious injury to his right shoulder in tho Messines Ridge affair. Lieutenant MacJlorran's shoulder is still in bandages, ana it is' yet. too early to sny whether he will regain tho full use of his right arm. Lieutenant J. Brown, formerly of tho clerical staff of The Dominion, who ha« been twice wounded in. action on tho Western, front, returned to Wellington yesterday, and received a hearty welcome from many friends. Lieutenant Brown was shot through both cheeks in ona action, and. after recovering in England, roturned to duty, and_ was shot through tile in the Messines advance. Ho lias derived great benefit from the loiij? eea voyage.

Lieutenant-Colonel Fletcher, of Wellington, and Lieutenant S. Holland (son of the Mayor of Clirislchurch) were among the wstmded soliders who returned to/ Wellington yesterday.

Advico has boon received in Wellington Elating that Lance-Corporal It. It. Kails, of Kilbirnie, who has been seriously ill, is improving in health, and has been removed to the convaloscent home at nornchurch.

On July 8 George Horbort St. Hill ,(CoIlis), lieutenant-colonel, Hussars,; was killed in action while attached to tlie Notts and Derby Regiment. The 'second son of the late Rev. Canon St. Hill, of Napier, N.Z., Colonel St. Hill has seen iong servico in tho Yeomanry, in which lie had his majority in 1909. . In February last ho was appointed to/the command of a battalion of the Sherwood Foresters. Among his previous war ¥pr[18118), medal; operations in South Africa (1896), clasp.! Central Africa Expedition (1S98), medal with clasp; and the South African War, when he served with tho Tmperinl Yeomanry,' and_ was decorated with the Queen's Medal with three clasps. In ISSD, Colonel St. Ilill maried .ft sister of Sir Spencer Jlaryon Jfaryon-Wilson.

Major A. R. Hislop has received advice that liis son, who has been training with the Royal Horse Artillery in England, has obtained his commission as lieutenant, and has been gazetted to tho Brigade of the Royal Horse Artillery at Salisbury.

Lieutenant Guy P.. Natusch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tilleard Natusch, of lielmont, was among tho wounded soldiers to return from tho Western front yesterday. Lieutenant Natusch had the misfortune to be shot in tho ankle in tlio Messines battle.