PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 38, 8 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. R, Heaton Rhodes left for the' south by the ferry steamer last night. The Hon. J. Barr, M.L.C., returned to the south by tho Maori last night. Colonel C. J. Keakes left 1 on <i visit to the south by the ferry stenmer Maori Inst night. . Mr. W. H. Haggcr, Wellington District Conciliation Commissioner, is at present in tho South Island. Ho is expected back in Wellington next week. Major J. L. Sloemau, Imperial General Staff, has beea Kiintedtlio temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel while holding tho appointment of Director of Military Training in T cw Zealand. Tho Rev. Robert Hall, murdered at Mornington Island, m» a soil of the tato ,Tohn Hall, of Edendale. He was bom at Taieri Beach, 0 ago 3G yea -ago. The family removed to KJmitalo (Southland) soon after. The d.ecoMed quently spent somo years in ft> Oarnaru district in farming pursuits. In MM he entered Bclair College, Adelaide, with, a v ew to qualifying for tho. foreign misSinn field. In 1909 he married Mf Ton. kin, formerly of Oamatu, who had also received missionary training in Adelaide. The deceased's first missionary work among Australian aboriginals was at Mapoon, North Queensland and three vears a«o he was given the task ot openin° e vir ß in territory at Mornington I?fi"md had made excellent progress. -Press Assn. Major R. Neavo (Essex Regmient), Infantry Instructor in tho New Zealand raining camps, hae been panted the temporary rank of hcntenant-colonel. Lieutenant Sidney V. Paul, of Taranaki, tolled, in action was at ono time a rcnresonlativo footballer. He was also a huntsman, tennis player, rifle shot, and bowler, lie left with the Mil Reinforcements.

Private ,7. Spear, who was an ol&f Napier High School )>oy, and who volufc. I teereil with tho Thirteenth Reinforce! ments, was gassed, wounded, and mis*-' ing in France. Ho has now boon found, ] and is in hospital in England. Hie': friends will bo pleased to learn he i> ' improving. Private J. Spear is a nephew! to Mr. 11. Spear, Oriental Bay. Lance-Sergeant C. Hall, who died of' ■wounds in France on October m, was I tho youngest brother of Mrs. If. A.} Tustin, of Wellington. Ho enlisted when.; only 17 years of ago (previously ho tad; been farming in the Wnikato), and left! New Zealand in January, 1915, with thoi Rifle Brigade. His company was among! tho first New Zealand troops to land in I France. Sergeant Jlall was through all! tho big battles in which the New Zoa-! landers took part, and had many narrow | escapes. Once he was blown up by a.! shell, and once buried by a shell explo-j sion, but on each occasion he suffered no injury. Two other members of the family, Riflemnu G. Welch and Sergeant C. Welch. Military Medal, nephews of Mrs. Tustin, have also lost their lives in.| tho war. i

Second Lieutenant Cyril F. Seaward.-i who has been awarded the Military Cross, left New Zealand with the Main.| Body, and participated in tho Gallipoli | campaign. He was invalided to Eng-j land on account of sunstroke, but later! returned to Gallipoli. He was there i wounded in tho lung and sent back to! Egypt. Later ho. returned to New Zealand, where ho obtained His commission,; nnd again went away with tho Twenty-; third Reinforcements. Prior to tho war| ho was employed for some time, by Hal-', gety and Co., at Auckland, and later! lie became manager of tho Farmers' I Freezing Company at Te Awamutii. His j elder brother, Noel, was killed in France while serving witlv the- Ambulance; Corps, and his younger brother .is at i present in the Flying Corps.

lira. .T. C. Gavin, of Karori, has re- i ceived advico that her fourth son, Cap-' tain N. J. 11. Gavin, M.C., 8.A.M.0., M.0., attached to tho 11th Royal Irish Hides, has died at the front as the re- j suit of an accident. Captain Gavin was; educated nt tho Terrace School and nfc' the Wanganui Collegiato School. Subsequently he was for one year a student of Otago University, completing Ins medical course at Edinburgh. Prior to; joining tho Army Captain Gavin was for some years engaged in work in mental hospitals in England. In August, 1015, lie joined the It.A.M.C, nnd in tho following year won tho Military Cross, to which in October last he was awarded a bar. The late Captain Gavin was a brother to tho Rev. G. H. Gavin, who is serving as a chaplain to tho New Zealand Forces.

The death occurred at the South AVairarapa. Hospital, Greytown, yesterday morning (writes our special correspondent) of Mr. AVilliam Graham, at the age of 46. Tho late Mr. Graham, who was Government Dairy Inspector in the AVairarapa, had been in ill-Health for some considerable time. lie was the third sou of the late Mr. F. L. Graham, of AVaikouaiti, Olngo, and was possessed of a reserved, kindly disposition, whieli won for him the liigh esteem of all v.ho had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and particularly his associates in the dairy industry. Ho leaves a widow, will have" Ijie sympathy of a large circle of friends in , her bereavement. The interment will take place at Caiteton on FrTuay afiernoon.

Mr. Charles Berkeley has arrived from Sydney (o mako the advance arrangements for tlio season here of Mr. Cyril Maude, (he distinguished English actor, and cousin of Major-General.Sir Francis Maude, the officer commanding the British operations in Mesopotamia.