PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 159, 25 March 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. W. Kerr, S.M., of Wairarapa, has, says our special correspondent, received' notice of his transfer to ISapier, for which place he will leave in the course of a few days. Mr T. H. Hiley, General Manager of the New Zealand Railways, returned from the South Island by the ferry steamer yesterday. The Distinguished Sprvico Cross has been conferred upon Lieutenant James Jickell, 11.N.1t., who for the past year ha? been fighting submarines in tho North Sea. He is a son of Mr. J. A. Jiokell, of Farnoll, who is at present engaged in munition work in England. When the war broke out he enlisted as ,i signaller in the Australian Imperial Force and served on Gallipoli and in France. When men wore wanted for tho Navy ho volunteered, and after attending a naval college was given a commission on a destroyer. Major P. Haseldcii, of the South African Forces, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He assisted in quelling the De Wet rebellion, and afterwards served in the campaign in Gorman South-West Afro. Later ho took part in the operations against the Germans in East Africa, whore he was wounded, and upon recovery returned to the front. He is a New Zealandcr. Mr. F. L. Combs, M.A., of Masterton, has been nominated as one of the teachers' representatives on the Council of Education. Mr. C. Harbottle, of the Union Steam Ship" Company's, managerial staff, returned from Timani yesterday. Captain C. M'Donald, of the Union Steam Ship Company, Dunedin, arrived in Wellington from the south yesterday. News has been received that Mr. Owen Cox, general manager of tho Federal and Shire Lino in Australasia, was included in the recent list of honours. Ho has been croated a K.B.E. (Knight Commander of tho Order of the British Empire).

Mr. Joseph Hayvice, of Wellington, died at the Wellington Hospital yesterday morning, at the nge of 48, after a long illness. Mr. Hayvice leaves a widow and eight children—five sons and three daughters. The funeral took place yesterday at Karori. The three- chief mourners were Messrs. Henry, Phillip, and Michael Hayvice. The Rev H. van Staveren and the Rev. Pitkowsky officiated at the graveside.

Quartern™ eter-Sergeant G. M. Sanson, of Carterton, and Private H. J. Bannister, of Whareamn, are returning to New Zealand with a draft this month.

Mr. E. M. Just, headmaster of the Lyttelton District High School, who is retiring after over fifty-two years' service in tho teaching profession, was entertained by the Echool teachers of the district on Friday evening at a social evening, in tho course of which' he wae presented with a gold Rotheram watch, suitably inscribed. Second Lieutenant John Niall Fox, Royal Engineers, who has been awarded the Military Cross, is the second son of tho late Colonel F. J. Fox, formerly Commandant of the New Zealand Forces, and a grandson of the late Sir William Russell, of Hawke's Bay. Lieutenant Fox was awarded the Cross "for conspicuous devotion to dnty when engaged in repairing bridges. His party came tinder heavy shell .fire, and although wounded and knocked over threo times ho stuck to his duty, and successfully carried out his work. It was due to his fine example and gallant conduct that his men were kept under control and successfully carried out tho repairs."