PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 42, 13 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Major-General Sir Alfred Robin, Commandant of tho Now Zealand Forces, and Surgeon-General Henderson, DirectorGeneral of Medical Services, left Wellington yesterday for Rotorua, where they will pay an official visit to tho military hospitals. General Robin will afterwards visit. Auckland, and will not return to Wellington until next week. General Henderson has arranged to return here on Friday.

Rear-Admiral Yamaji, of the .Tapancso Navy, is visiting Sydnoy. An "at heme" to tho visitor and hi 6 officers was tonderod by tho Japanese Consul there a few days ago.

The Rev. Father Cullen, Roman Catholic chaplain to Hie forces (4th Class), has arrived in Featherston Camp and reported for duty.

Tho professorial board of tho Auckland University College has selected SecondLioutenant N. A. Jory as tho Auckland candidate for tho Rhodes scholarship. Lioutenant Jory, who is no« in Featherston camp, attached to tho thirty-fourth Reinforcements, iB 21 years of age, and is the Bon of tho Rev. J. D. Jory, of Birkenhead. He is an old Auckland Grammar School boy, and was one of the team of rifle shots who won tho_ Natal Shield for the school in 1912. Lieutenant Jory's most notable scholastic achievement was securing first place in tho junior scholarship examination for New Zealand. He also secured the _ Gillies' scholarship at tho Auckland Univer* sity College, besides two New Zealand University senior scholarships—for chemistry and physics respectively.

Mr. A. L. D. Froscr, of Hastings, is, our Napier correspondent telegraphs, seriously ill in a private hosptal.

Tho funeral of tho late Mr. E. W. S'caton took place yesterday afternoon. Tho service at Karori Cemetery was conducted by tho Rev. A. M. Johnson. There was a large cortege, which included representatives from most of the bowling clubs of tho city.

Cabled advico has just been received that Sergeant P. E. Chnppell, sou of Mrs. J. Chappoll, 135 Brougham Street, Wellington, who was severoly wounded on October i, is progressing satisfactorily in Brockenluirst Hospital. Sergeant Chappell loft New Zealand as a private with the Seventh Reinforcements, and has been through the various engagements on tho French front. Earlier in tho year ho was mentioned in Sir Detains Haig J s dispatches, and recently received word that ho hod been, awn (lea the Military Medal.

Mr. and Mrs. T. 11. Anderson, 62 Carlylo Street. Napier, have received ndvico that two of their sons have been wcunded. Lanco-Cfcrporal S. C. R. Anderson received three wounds in the leg, vn. gassed, and suffering from ebcll-sliock, and also from (rench fever.. >£rSf™n l W. S. Anderson is at Walton-on-IJiames Hospital, with a shrapnel wound in the left arm nnd hand. Advice has been received that I.embardior Bernard Ij. E'SK' " h .° ! '; 1S „ in Franco with ilie N.Z.F.A. for two years, has been recommended i>y tenoral Godley for a commission, and is at present at the R.V.A. Cadet School, I.cndon. Ho is tho youngest son of Mr. R. B. Rigg, of (he head oflice cf tho Bank of New Zealand, who has also two other sons, commissioned officers, with the Australian Forces in I'ranee. Word has just come to ' lan d J®' another Soys' Insucnte o.u boy has made the supremo sacrifice fol - King and countrv. Corporal Charles William Ambrose left New Zcnland in May last. He went over to Franco about the middle of October, and had only boon fourteen days there when ho met. his death. His loss will be deenly mourned bv his old Institute comrades, who held hira in the high- ..... —...—

Mr. George F, Inglis, publioity agent for the Y.M.C.A.. has resigned, and is about to rejoin tho staff of the "Otajfl Daily Times."

At Inst evening's mooting of tho Lower Hutt Borough Council the Mayor extended a welcome to Councillor W. Walton, who it as recently elected to tho council nnd was taking his Goat for the first time. The Mayor said ho understood that Councillor Walton had had exixsrionce that would be useful' to tho borough. Councillor Walton thanked tho Mayor, and paid it would ho his endeavour to do his best for the borough as a whole, Dr. Frederick Browne, of Chriatchuroh, has arrived in Wellington to report for military duties.

A votcran of the Crimean War and Maori Wars, Mr, William Middleton, died in Auckland last week at tho age of 81. Mr. Middleton was a native of Wakefield, Yorkshire, and enlisted in tho 68tli Regiment in the 'fifties. Ho took part in tho battles of Alma and Inkerniann, and tho siego of Sotaißtopol, then spent six years in India, after tno suppression of tho mutiny, and camo on with Ills regiment to New Zealand in 1603. Deceased fought in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty districts, including tho capture of tho Gato Pah. Since his retirement from the army lio has lived in Wauganui, Napier, and Auckland. Band matters greatly interested him, and he was at ono timo a member of tho Auokland Garrison Band. Ono of his sons, Sapper Walter Middleton, is now on service in. France. '

Mr, W. A. P. .Clarkson, a well-known Christchurch architect, and president of the Now Zealand Institute of Architects, died suddenly shortly after midnight on Friday. He had been in his usual health during tho evening, but had a heart attack and collapsed. The Into Mr. Clarkson wns 54 years of He received his early training in Chnetchurch, and subsequently went to England for experience. He was president of tho Christchurch Association of Architects for 6ome years. . .