PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 110, 26 January 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Ths Hon. Arthpr.'M. Myers, Minister of Customs and'/ Munitions and Supplies, left for Auckland by yesterday's express, and will return to Wellington on Tuesday, 'Ac Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout), who has been presiding over the University Senate in Dunedin, will go further south before returning to Wellington.

• The Rev. W. R. Scott, Methodist chaplain to the Forces, 4th class, has anivtd in Featherston Camp and reported for duty, vice the Rev. H., T. Peat.

A cable message from Melbourne announces the death of Sir Samuel I'ethebridge, Commonwealth Commissioner of the Pacific Islands.

Mr. AY. Gardner, of Riverlea, Taranaki, late of I'ahatitanui, has been advised by tho Defence Department that his son, Sergeant J. H. Gardner, Wellington ■Mounted ltiilcs, Alain Jvxpeditionary Force, is to arrive back with the next draft of sick and wounded. Sergeant Gardner has lost his right arm. and was wounded before at Gallipoli. Ho was an enthusiastic athlete, being well known on the. running track. Mr. J. A. Young, M.P., arrived in Wellington by the Maori yesterday. Mr. Young has been making an extensive tour of the Nelson, Westland, and South Canterbury districts. He goes on to the Waikato to-day.

Tlie Rev. G. Carter, Salvation Army chaplain to the Forces, 4th class, has been transferred from Tauherenikaii Camp to Featherstoii Camp, vice the Rev. Mr. S. S. Green, Salvation Army chaplain to the Forces, 4th class

Gunner J. M'Mahon (killed in action) was tho son of Mrs. P. M'Mahon, of Ghuznoo Street. Gunner M'Mahon. loft Wellington with the Field Artillery, Twenty-third Reinforcements, in April last. Previous to leaving for the front he was a popular member of tho local Permanent Artillery for eleven years, and also was well known in football circles. He was 33 years of age, and leaves a widow. A brother of the late soldier is at ■ present recuperating in England from injuries . received in battle, having lost his right leg. Tho third brother is at present in camp at Featherston with the Thirty-fifth Reinforcements.

Among those who have returned from the war quite recently is Lieutenant C. Bridge, of Oriental ■ Bay, who is very well known in athletic circles in New Zealand. " '' " " '

■ Lieutenant H. Simpson, of the Royal Flying Corps, has been. officially reported aa returning, to New. Zealand. There is no record of him at the Base Records Office, and' his' nextof-kin is unknown there. Anyone knowing the name and address of Lieutenant Simpson's relatives is requested to communicate with Base Records immediately. Rifleman.Eric Foreman, son of Mr. James Foreman, who left with the Sixteenth Reinforcements, has been killed in action. He was twenty-seven years of age. Mr. J. Farquhar, of the Auckland "Star," is to go'to Australia as secretary to the Desert Gold tour of Australia. The tour of the famous racer is being made for patriotic purposes. Mr. Kibble, of the literary staff of the "Lyttelton Times," has been appointed editor of the Ashbutton "Guardian." • .

Captain Charles K.i Ward, of the Now Zealand Dental Corps, whose disappearance was reported in a London cable message yesterday, is tho third son of the Rev. C. E. Ward, of Christchurch, and a brother of Mr. R. B. Ward, a Christchurch solicitor (states a PreS3 Association telegram from Christchurch). The first intimation his relatives had of his disappearance was conveyed in the Press cable message. Capta'in Ward was the first dentist to enlist in New Zealand; and-left for Samoa with the advance guard. Returning to' New Zealand, he was engaged in camp duty until last Easter, when he left with a reinforcement draft for England. Since his arrival in the Old Country he had been stationed in London. He has four brothers at the front, one of being Gunner Wilfred I. Ward, the Christchurch dentist. Captain Ward, who was practisiti<: his profession in Wellington at the outbreak of the war, was married hist before leaving New Zealand for England. His wife is at present residing in Wellington.

The. Rev. S. Beckingham, who has been lecturing in this country, has returned to Australia.

The new Chinese Consul, Mr. Lin Shih Yuan, arrived in Wellington this week to tako up his duties. •

Mr. L. B. Galbraith, eon of Mr. Robert Galbraitli, Ashburton, and Mr. Ivan R. Withell, second son of Mr. C. W. Withell, Mayfield. have received advice from the Defence Department, Wellington, that they have been accepted as candidates for the Australian Military Training College at Duntroon.