PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 57, 30 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

His Excellency the Governor-General and the Countess of Liverpool -will jeavc for Christchurch to-morrow evening.

The Minister of Finance (Sir Josephi Ward) will leave Wellington to-mor-row morning for Palmcrston North,, where ho will open the municipal baths at 2 p.m. He will leave again for Auckland tho same afternoon by the Main Trunk express. From tho northern city ho will go on Monday to To Aroha and Thames, via Paeroa, af> v which placo ho will receive a number 1 , of deputations. On Tuesday ho will open the Turua Post Office, leaving Thames the same afternoon for Frank-, ton Junction, where he .will join the' express for Palmcrston North. Sir Joseph Ward will proceed on Wcdnes--day afternoon to Napier, and attend 1, the hydro-electric banquet thero the>' same evening. He will return to Palmerston North the next day, and then proceed to To Kuiti. On Fri'lay next lie will open the Post Office at.Piopio, and receive deputations at Aria. Sir Joseph Ward will be back in Palmerston North on tho following.'' morning, and will attend the opening of the Anzac Club thero in tho afternoon. Ho will return to Wellington in tho evening, and proceed to Christchurch. On Monday, December 10 n 't ho will go to Dunodin, and the next; day to Invercargill, where ho will attend the Southland show on Deccm-' ber 11 and 12.

Sir John Denniston and Lady Denniston left for the south by the Mara-

roa last night,

Captain J. B. Hine, M.P. for Stratford, is reported in this morning's hospital report to be a "severe case." Father Dore, who was severely' wounded at Callipoli, has been pre-' sented by the Governor-General witls the Military Cross.

At tho conference or the Associated'. Chambers of Commerce yesterday, Mr. James Macintosh (Wellington) was reelected president, and Mr. W. _ Gow (Dimcdin) was elected vice-president. Messrs. H. S. Bourn (Canterbury), F. J. Louglman (nvercargill), B-. Burns (Auckland), and C. M. Luke (Wellington Central) were elected members of the executive.

An old resident of Masterton, Mr.! Joseph Taucher, died on Wednesday, morning at the age of 87 years. The. late Mr. Taucher arrived in New Zealand in the ship Terpsichore iu 1875.

A returned Native trooner named Joe, Covernor died at tho Te Ore Ore pah', near Masterton, a few days ago--, Mr. C. Churchill Jackson has been appointed to represent the Mauriceville and Eketahuna County Councils on the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

The Feathorston County Council, at. tho annual meeting held on Wednesday at Maryborough, re-elected Councillor A; D. M'Leod to tho office ol chairman, and Councillor John Martin as treasurer.

Yesterday the Wellington Land! Board congratulated the Crown Lands Commissioner (Mr. G. H. M'Clure) upon tho war honour which -was recently conferred on his son, Captain M'Clure.

The relatives of the late Private Anderson, whose death was recorded , , last Saturday, have a truly meritorious record of service, as the following shows;—An uncle of the deceased eoldier fell at Messines, another is lying' severely wounded and gassed, two are in the firing line at present, and a fifth is with the Twentieth Reinforcements. All volunteered for service. Private Anderson'd grandfather .served 21 years in tho Imperial Army, his great-grandfather 19 yenrs with the hill tribes in India, and his mothor was born in military barracks. The deceased soldier was his mother's righthand support, and his early death is keenly felt. The Rev. G. B. Stephenson, B.Sc, who for the past yenr has had charge of St Mary's, Levin, has been offered and accepted the cure of the Anglican church at Dannevirke. Mr. Stephenson is well known in Palmersten North, having been a curate under tlie Ven. Archdeacon Harper, when the latter had charge of All Sainte' Church. Later ho held charges at Pongaroa and Petone. Mr. Stephenson takes over his cure at Dannevirke in February next.

Cabled, advice has been received that Private Percy Zillwood, son of Mrs, 1. Zillwood, of 'Carterton, has been killed in action.

The Rev. R, B. S. Hammond of Sydney, who had been investigating the results of Prohibition in certain parts of America pnd Canada, is at present at Auckland. Mrs. W. Scott, of Palmerston North, has received advice that her son, Corporal D. W. Scott, has been admitted to Bethnal Green Hospital in London. He is suffering from synovitis of a knee. The death occurred at New Plymouth Hospital on Friday last of Mr. Joseph Woodmore, formerly a well-known resl, dent of Palmerston North. Thc_ late Mr. Woodmore, who had attained _the a«e of 82 years, underwent a serious operation during the week, and from this he failed to recover. Deceased was in business as a tailor in Palmerston North, and left for New Plymouth nine years ago. .»

The funeral obsequies of the late Captain D. H. Rait took place in Palmerston North on Wednesday afternoon in the presence of a large, number of friends and sympathisers. Captain Rait having seen considerable service abroad with the Veterinary Corps, the deceased soldier was accorded a military funeral, for which very complete nrraneements were made by the Returned Soldiers' Association. The coHin was borne on a sun carriage supplied bv the Defence Department, whilst J Battery provided the firing party, ino Returned .Soldiers' Association was well represented, also the Awapnni Ambulance Corps and the Defence staffs, whilst there was also a representative attendance of citizens, including tho Mayor, tho secretary, treasurer, and executive members of tlin Patnotio Society, and many others. Tho cortege was headed by the Municipal Band, under Conductor Pike, which played the usual funeral marches.

Mr. F. B. Mansfield, late of-the mechanicians , branch of the. Post and Telegraph Department, has been selected from a largo number of applicants .for the position of secretary to the Palmorston North Hospital Board at a salary of £300 per niuram to commence, with. Mr. Mansfield recently resigned from tho Department after his return from active service.

Mr. Thomas Rogprson, chief engineer of the Aparima, who is reported missing, was, after being educated in the Clutha district, apprenticed to the engineering trade in Dunedin, joining the Union Steam Ship Company later. Hβ was for some- time in the Island trade, as well ns in tho West Coast coal trade. He was on the Aparima for some twelve years. Sir. Rogerson wan about 43 years of age, and unmarried.

Corporal Mostyn Fleming (reported as wounded on October 12) lias succumbed to Ins injuries. Cor|wral Fleming left with tho Otago draft of the Twenty-fourth Reinforcements. He took ii very prominent part in any work in Central Otago that had for its object tho welfare of the. community, and vns exceedingly popular in the Alexandra, and Cromwell districts. Ho took a keen interest in church affairs, and was at one timo a lay reader in'the Anglican Church. His brother, LanceCorporal Itbyl Fleming, was killed in action a little over twelve months ago.