PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 71, 17 December 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

I Tho Hon. T. M. Wilford will leave to-day for 'a tour of the prison cainps in tho north at Kaingaroa, Te Arai (on tho Waimarino-Tokaanu Uoad), and Waikeria. Ho will also visit Whakatane on harbour matters, and ho is to go to Thames to see about a request that is being made thero for tho provision of cool storago for fish, Ho will bo at Auckland looking after prisons mid marine matters there. Mr. Wilford will not return to Wellington until after the holidays. Mr. Harold Bcauehamp, chairman of tho Bank of New Zealand, left for Auckland, per express, on Saturday last. Ho expects to be absent from Wellington for three weeks. Mr. Jonathan Golding, headmaster of the Gore School, dropped dead in a motor garago on Saturday afternoon, shortly after driving from Gore to Invercargill.—PreßS Assn, Majors Wallingford and Morrison returned to Wellington from tho south by the Maori yesterday. Mr. ,1. Craigie, M.P., arrived in Wellington from Timaru yesterday morning. Mr. J. L. Holland) one of the pioneers of Auckland, died on Friday. Mr. Holland was a native of Leicestershire, and came to' Auckland in the baiquo Swordfish in tho year 1858. Dr. Bedford, of Otago University, arrived in Wellington from Dunedin yesterday morning. Colonel G. J. Smith arrived ; n Wellington by tho Maori from Lyttolton yesterday. Mr. Thomas Young, solicitor, is joining forces with Messrs. Thomas ii'cavo and F. J. Courtuey, hitherto of tho linn of Urown, Ncavo. and Courtuuv,

Sergeant James Harvey, reported killed in action on November 29, was the fourth sou of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harvey, Pembroke Street, Carterton. Ho was horn at Wcmlon Valley, Southland, and educated at tho Carterton District High School. Ho sailed with the Seventh Reinforcements as a private, and was in tho Lewis gun section of tho Runtime Company until tho time of his death. Ho was in all tho actions of the Ist (Wellington) Battalion, and was recommended for distinction in tho Rattle of Mcssines. His brother Arthur, a bombing corporal in tho same company, also sailed with tho Seventh Reinforcements, and died of wounds recoifed on October 4, 1917, jn a foat which won him the Military Medal. Two other brothers aro at present in camp. Base Records has recoived a cablegram from London, dated December 8, announcing the award of tho Distinguished Conduct Medal to Flight-Ser-geant H. Campbell, a New Zealander, who is now attached to tho Royal Flying Corps. As this soldier is not a member of tho Now Zealand Expeditionary Forco, his next-of-kin is not known at Base Records Office. Mr. H. H. Ebey, who visited Wellington on behalf'of the Luckenback S.S. Company, is now n traffic director for the United States Shipping Bureau. News was received by Mr. Wm. Brown (head of tho firm of Laery and Co.) on Saturday to tho effect that his second son, Lieutenant Cyril Brown, of the N.Z Artillery, had died as the result of a wound received m Franco. Lieutenant Brown was shot in tho head, supposedly by a sniper, when at the front with his section. Ho was reported recently as dangerously ill, but tho information received still later appeared to promise favourable progress; and the news of his death came as, a shock to lirs reltaives and friends in Wellington. Before tho war broke out Lioutouant Brown was on the staff of Royal Exohango Assurance Company in Wellington. He enlisted almost at once, and was given a commission in the N.Z.R.A.., and subsequently was placed in chargo ot tlio Ngahauranga Fort, and later was tor nearly two years in charge at Fort Dorset. Ho left Now Zealand wlMi the Twenty-fourth Reinforcements, and had Beveral narrow escapes on active service in France before receiving Ins fatal wound. He had been over fifty days in hospital. Lieutenant Brown, who was 25 years of age, leaves a widow (nee Miss Garland) and one child. His brother, Private Ray Brown, was with him when lie died. Mr. Robert Hill, of Christchurch, formerly a resident of Wellington, has joined the headquarters statt of the Y.M.C.A. as publicity seoretary.