PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 131, 20 February 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. Major Harris has been reappointed to tho Legislative Council.

Mr. C. B. Morison, who underwent a succeseful operation recently, is now convalescent and on his way to ltotorua.

Many in Wellington will ho interested to learn that Lieutenant-Colonel H. K. IMkingtou, formerly Adjutant-Gl-n----eral to the New Zealand Forces, now occupies a position of some distinction , with the British Expeditionary Force in Fiance. In England, LieutenantColonel Pilkington took a very exact course of ordnance, and the excellent training he received has stood him in good stead. He is now Assistant Director of Ordnanco with the 19th Army Corps, and considers'himself fortunate, inasmuch as few officers attain such a position without graduating through a Division. AVhen he, wrote in December, Lieutenant-Colonel Pilkington was in excellent health and spirits.

Brigadier-General Roland Boys Bradford, V.G., who was a lieutenant-col-onel at '21 and was promoted brigadierRoneial at 25, has been killed in action. Geneial Bradford was the youngest son of the lato Mr. George Bradford, consulting mining engineer, of Darlington. He gained the Military Cross in March, 1915, and was awarded the Victoria Cross iu November last year for conspicuous 'bravery and good leadership in attack

Tho many friends of Private Kenneth S. Andrus will be interested to hear he is returning (invalided) to New Zealand. Private Andrus left with the Auckland Mounted Rifles, Tenth Reinforcements, but after a few months in Egypt he was transferred to the 4th Otago Infantry Brigade, and thereupon proceeded to France, where, after completing his infantry training, he saw active service, and came through all the Somme : battles without a scratch, but shortly afterward, whilst assisting to build "advanced aid posts," he contracted severe pleurisy with effusion, and was an inmate of Waltini-on-Thamcs Auxiliary Hospital for some months. Private Andrus is expected to arrive with the next returning draft.

A memorial service for the late Mr. Balcombo Brown and the late Mr. A. V. Webster will be held at tho Y.W.C.A. on Sunday next. The service will be conducted by the Rev. Jamas Paterson and the Rev. M. A. Johnson, and will be open to men aud women as well as to the girls.

Mr. A. D. Riley, of Wellington, has returned from a visit to Australia.

Mr. John Scott, an old resident of Mastcrton, died on Monday at the age of sixty-nine years. Deceased, who was a native of Inverness, Scotland, came to New Zealand thirty-five years ago. Ho leaves a family of four sons and six daughters. One of his sons is Constable D. Scott, of Picton.

Private J. M'Elhott, son of Mr. T. M'l'illiotl, Hawkestone Crescent, has been awarded the Croiz do Guerre. Private M'Elliotl, who is 21 years old, went away with the Twelfth Reinforceniciits. A brother, Sergeant T. M'Elhott, who distinguished hhnselt by winning tho gold medal for champion signaller iu Egypt, was wounded recently. Both were educated at the Marist Brothers' Sehopl, Boulcott Street.

News lias been received of the death in Scotland of an old .Wellington identity, Mr. James Maekay. In the early days Mr. Maekay kept a furniture shop in Brandon Street, but sold out many years ago, and since then lived tv retired liiii Ho was a familiar fip.uro on' tlit Thorndon Bowling Club's green, and at the Central Club, and spent most of his spare time travelling between New Zealand and the Old Oouii; try. He died in Scotland, the conncry of his birth.

The Minister of Justice (Hon. T. 11. Wilford) has appointed Mr. Edward D. Mosley, barrister and solicitor, of Christchurch, to be one of the two relieving Stipendiary Magistrates whom Cabinet recently authorised him to appoint. Mr. Mosley will also be appointed Warden, and will probably commence his relieving duties at tho Thames. Mr. Mosley joined the Justice Department as a cadet, in 1893. He was then transferred to Dunedin, and served there, and afterwards at Christchurch. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1899, having'qualified in 1897. He had charge of the Police Court at Dunedin under Mr. Carew and Mr. Graham. In 1902 he was Clerk of the Magistrate's and Warden's Courts, at Cromwell, and also held tho positions of miniii" registrar and receiver of trold revenue. In 1904, at Westport, he was Clerk of the District, Magistrate's,, and Warden's Courts, receiver of gold and land revenue, and mining registrar. In 1907 he retired from the Government service, and entered into practice as a barrister—his firm being known as Smithson and Mosley—and has had considerable practice in the Supreme Court and tho Magistrate s Court in Christchurch for the last ten or eleven years.

Mr. E. F. Pascoe, of the Wellington office has been appointed senior telegraphist in the Fcildins office, rcplaoing Mr. T. Colo, transferred to Waitaiu.