PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 4, 29 September 1917, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain Thomas Frederick CorkiU (Oriental Bay) obtained his commission, in the R.A.M.C. in August, 1914, and has . for the. last . two years tan with the Forty-first Division of the. British Army in Franco and Flanders: He las jiisfc been awarded the SI Hilary Cross for work which be'did'during the offensive of last month, and has also received the Belgian distinction of Chevalier of the Order of Leopold in recognition of services rendered in Belgium during a series of raids in February last. Captain CorkiU :i* an' old pupil .of Wellington College, and was a 6ludent at Victoria- College before going to Edinburgh to complete his medical course. Mr. Mark Caselberg, son of Mr.. M. Caselberg, of Ma'sterfori, who has' been doing ambulance wort with the French Army almost from the beginning of the war, has been decorated with the Croix do Guerre. : ' '

Private If. V. M'lfenna, who was killed in the railwav accident near Plymouth, was a-son of'Mr: M'Kenna, of Newman, and. a nephew of Monsignor.M'Kenna, of Mastcrton. He was twentv years of age, nnd-left with .the 28th Reinforcements. He was the third of the family to enlist. Mr Robert Goodin, a .popular young settler of Rokatau, in'.the.-Wairarapa, died on, Wednesday last, at the age of thirty-three years. . ... • Mr. W. G. Talbot has been appointed secretary .of the Civil Service Club.

\ Guide M'Cormiek, who was injured iH the Waimangu explosion some time ago,' was in Wellington during.the week.

At the Civir Service Club Mast evening a presentation Was made to Mr:C- G. Allan, who is resigning from the secretaryship of the club' to take up farming. J The presentation was made by Mr.-G. G. Wilson,' and consisted of a silver .cigarette case and a safety razor.-.

.-Mr. .Frederick J." France,' who-was recently appointed clerk' of the" Hutt' Council in succession to Mr. H. D. Atkinson, resigned, took up his new duties" this week. ' Mr. France is a native'of Wellington, and a son of the late Dr. France, who practised his profession in this crty for a great many 'years. • For 19 years before he joined the.'Hutt County Council Mr. France was on. the City Council,, staff. •In his younger days lie .was, as a ' member of the Wellington Naval.Bri- - gade.-a-crack carbine shot:... Mr William Malcolm,' who. died'' at Hunterville last Saturday: after- a short illness,'had for five weeks prior tpros death been acting..headmaster .of the District. High School there, a. position, he gladly accepted in.prder to 'do. : i« bit" for King and country during the war. The late. Mr. Malcolm was born at Stromness in : 1838, arid .acted for some time there, as pupil .teacher prior to leaving for Edinburgh: University and Moray, House. 'Training College. Oil leavirjr these institutions he was. appointed headmaster at Dunfermline, raid, then rector of the High.School at Stornoway. He'migrated to New Zealand in 1871, and shortly alter his arrival <he was appointed to the position of headmaster, of the Spit School, Napier. Laterhe wasi appointed rector of the Milton District High School, and a fterwards m became principal of the Christchurch Training .College. .After retiring he did a, considerable amount of coaching for the amversity examinations, and a great m«nj .successful candidates all over the testify to the thoroughness of bis. teaching. He was of a lovable, and genial / and wonderfully well 'formed. The past few years he had epent will different members of his family, but mainly with his ddest sori MiJ. H. Malcolm, headmaster of the le Aro School, whose housd he left at the can „• of duty to die in harness. The late Mr. - Malcolm (farmer, Opunako) Miss Anne Malcolm (Auckland) Mr James M£ colm (engmeer, Auckland), •!£"•. B ?"i,i vilie Auckland), Captain Pettie Maicolm/c.E. (Calcutta), and Mr. bamuel / Malcolm (farmer, Auckland).