PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 55, 28 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Surgeon-General Henderson, Direc-tor-General of Medical Services, returned to Wellington yesterday after a visit to the South Island.' General Henderson wont south chiefly for tho purpose of inspecting the' medical cadets at the Otago "University. Brigadier-General Wallacb was a recent arrival in the Dominion "from Australia. Dr. Cameron lias returned from a visit to the Commonwealth. Mr. W. H, Hugger, Wellington Conciliation Commissioner, left for Napier .yesterday. He is expected to return to-morrow. Mr. J. W. Cochrane, of Te Kuiti, has been appointed district organising secretary for the King Country subprovincial district of tho New Zealand Farmers' Union, out of thirty-sis applications. • The deatli is reported of Mr. John Norling, an old settler of the Ekctuliuna district, at tho age of seventyfour years. Cabled advice has been received that Private Percy Zilhvood, son of Mrs. T. Zilhvood, of Carterton, lias been killed in action.

Mr. William Gray, formerly principal of the Wellington Training Collego, and at present principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne, has arrived in Wellington on furlough with his wifo and youngest son. They are staying with Mr. Gray's sister, Mrs. G. L. Stewart, Wadestown. Mr. John Clark Robertson, who was thrown from his motor bicycle in Moxliam Avenue on Monday evening, and sustained concussion of the brain, died m the Hospital at 11 o'clock last night, the late Mr. Robertson, who was a married man about 39 years of age was the third son of Mr. David Robertson, of the Phoenix Foundry, and served his apprenticeship to tho engineering in h lB father's works. Hofjpent several years at sea, and was for some time in the engmc-room of various vessels ot the Union Company's fleet. On tiring of the sea, Mr. Robertson rejoined his lather's works. As a youth the Jate Mr. Robertson was an enthusiastic yachtsman He leaves a widow, who resides in Hataitai,