PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 65, 10 December 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (Right Hon. W. F. Massey) left for Palmerston North on Saturday morning. He is proceeding to the Auckland district, and will be away all this week. On Saturday he attended the opening of , the Anzac Club at Palmerston North.

The Minister of Defence (Sir Jamee Allen) attended tho opening of the Anzae Club at Palmerston North on Saturday afternoon. Hβ returned to Wellington in the evening.

The Hon. G. W. Russell, who loft for Palmeraton North on Friday, returned io Wellington on Saturday evening.

Sir John Denniston returned to Wellington from the south by the Maori yesterday morning. (Lieutenant-Colonel (Dr.) Fitzgerald arrived in Wellington from the south by the ferry steamer Maori yesterday. Lieutenant M. Doughty, son of Mr. W. R. Doughty, of Karaka Bay, is returning invalided from thejront at the end of tho month. Hβ is accompanied by his sister, Miss Kitty Doughty, who has for the past year been nursing at the Walton-on-Thames Hospital.

Mr. John Mackay, formerly New Zealand Government Printer, is returning to the Dominion from London bv way of Canada, and expects to reach Wellington shortly. Before he left the Old Country he was the guest of the London Master Printers' Association at dinner.

A .Press Association cable message from London states that Captain William Moore, son of Mr. Ernest Moore, of Auokland, has been killed in action. Father Roche was a passenger from Christchurch by the Maori yesterday. The death occurred in Nelson Hospital last week of the Rev. Charles W. Jennings, aged 60. The late Mr. Jennings had been fruit farming in tue Riwaka district for several years.

Mr.'K. D. Whelan, manager of the tea department of Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., is at present confined to his home through illness.

Lieutenant W. Newton Chilman, son of Mr. Chilmau, a Wellington member of the Soldiers' Financial Assistance Board, is due back from England at an early date. He is one of the men who left as a ranker in the Second Reinforcement, and has earned a •commission in the field. .He is returning to New Zealand on duty. Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) R. V. Fulton, Now Zealand Medical Corps, has been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration, he having a period of service of over twenty years.

Trooper J. J. Hull (who has been killod in action) wae ft member ot the 11th Australian Light Horse Brigade, and had seen service in Egypt and Gallipoli', and recently in Palestine. Anotfier brother was recently wounded in Prance. Trooper Hull was born at f'ahiatua, and was highly respected throughout that district. His relatives live in Palmerston North. In the latest list of killed'in action appears tho name of Private Hugh Aiken, eldest son of Mrs. Arthur Aiken, of Wickstead Street, AVangairai. and an old boy of Queen Park School, of which ho was at one time footM captain. He left with the Twentieth Reinforcements. He was n nephew of Mr. David Aiken, general manager of the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. M». Jolm Hyland, of the staff of the Department of Agriculture, has been advised that hia sou, Pmute J. Hyland, has been wounded, and is at present in a hospital in France The death occurred at Kaiapoi on Saturday of Mr. Robt. M. Wright, who until about eighteen months ago was clerk of the Eyre County Council, llie deceased was 77 yeare of age, and was operated on on Friday m a nursing ]iome for appendicitis. He leaves a wife and a largo family.

Mr. Robert Tapper, _ a well-known Southland runholder, died at the end of last week after a short illness, at his residence The deceased gentlonian arrived in Southland in 1862. Hβ was in hie 89th year, and was bom at Heading, Berkshire, on October 2, 1829.