PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 9, 5 October 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. Eyre Hutson, Colonial Secretary for Fiji, lias been granted three months' leave of absence, which he will spend in New Zealand. According to latest adTices, Lieutenant Downie Stewart, M.P., is still under treatment, in a private hospital in Sydney He has lately undergone a slight operation, and cannot report much progress yet, being able only to take outings in an invalid chair. Cablo advice has been received of the death in London on October 1 of Mr: h. T. Doxat for' many years chairman of directors of Messrs. Dalgely and Company, Limited. Mr. Doxat, who was BS years of age, 'joined Dhlgety and Company's service in ISSO, when .lie assumed tho chief management in London. On the death of Mr. F G. Dalgety m 18M, Mr Doxat became chairman of the company, and ably Mled tho position ( until his 'retirement from active business life in 1913. The Into Mr. Doxat was ono of the most widely-known and respected business men in the city, and the ength of his business career, which extended over a period of 67 years, practically break, is perhaps unique. Mr. Doxat was held in the highest esteem by all employees of tho company in London and Australasia, to whom he wato tionately known as "The Grand Old Man of Dalgctv's," and to whom his- kindly advice and counsel wore always available. Oil the occasion of his eightieth birthday he was the recipient of a portrait to oils of himself, by the Hon. John Collier, which was presented by the members of the Home and Australasian Khff« The wonderful development .of Dainty and Company's business during h storn of office was in a very largo measure due to his tireless energy, and {lie success of tho .company is a, monument to a great business man Tim late i lr -rwnf was aso a member of the board of Actors of the Shaw, Sar.ll, and Albion SWPP"W Company. Mr G .T Butler, on the motion of Mr. n H. Cornish, was yesterday morning admitted by his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Eobert Stout) as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. Mr. Butler, who belongs to AVangnntii, is at present m Feathorston Military Camp and is a sergeant in B Company, Thirty-second Reinforcements. He will shortly sit for a commission. \t a meeting of tho Woodville County Council' yesterday Captain M. 0. Grainger was 'warmly welcomed on taking his seat after nearly two years' absence. Captain Grainger, "who was severely wounded nt the Somme, went to Rotorua for treatment, and is »°w well. In roply. Captain Grainger stated that lie would not bo Branding again. It was not fair . to ask for po much leave, and shortly he would bo going to Australia for two cs- three months.

Mr.' G. 11. H'oTrortli, ongincor to the Wanganui Harbour Board, anil well known in nrt circles as u gifted artist, has decided to sol He in Wellington. For the past nine years Mr. Hmvorth has been engaged i" carrying out llic AVanganiii Harbour improvement scheme, mid prior to leaving Wanganui ho was entertained and presented with an illuminated address in appreciation of his sorviccs.

Four recently returned soldiers, Quar-termaster-Sergeant Mot-fan, Corpl. Hamlin, Trooper Masters, and Private Newson, were welcomed homo last night by the Johnsonville Patriotic Society. Moore Bros'. Hall was crowded, and the local brass band, assisted by city and local vocalists, provided entertainment. Mr. F. T. Mooro (chairman of the town Board), in a speech of welcome, congratulated the men, who were members ot tho Johnsonville Rifles, and who enlisted on the outbreak of war, oh the fane work they had done at the front, and hoped the valour shown by these men would he imitated by the married men, whoso duty it now was to face the enemv and finish the task so well begun. The Rev. Mr.'Petrie, president of tin Johnsonville Patriotic Society, presided. , Private Ernest von Sturmer, reported as wounded, is tho second son of Mr. Ernest von Sturmer, of the telegraph Construction Department. Ho volunteered nearly three years ago, and was rejected on account of his ago (lv), »'« determined to get to the front, and worked his passage to England on the s.s. Otaki (sinco torpedoed). Being still too young to serve with tho British Torces he joined a stcamor convoying ammunition to Russia, and later, when that vessel proceeded to Australia ho succeoded in setting taken on with the Frist i toneer Battalion of tho Australian Imperial Forces. He was fighting with thctn when wounded and gassed. Mr. Joseph Armit, of Wellington, has been advised that his son, Lieut. Edward N Armit, of the Nineteenth Australian Reinforcements, has been funded in the back by a piece of shell while fighuig in France. The wound is fortunately not a severe one. When ho ,nlis d Lieut Armit was a member .of the ftorarv staff of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph " His brother. Sergeant Roland L Armit, of the New Zealand Forces, also a o.rnalist, was killed on the fe£me last year, and another brother, We Colin Armit, who enlisted in Australia, was wounded at Armenl.eres, and is now back: at business in Sydney.