PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 170, 8 April 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Joseph Ward returned from the South Island yesterday ' morning. Lieutenant A. Hall, who was reported in a casualty list as having been killed in action at the front, was, before he left on active service, private secretary to Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, then Minister of Customs and Marino. Lieutenant Hall left with tho Main Body as a sergeant attached to Headquarters, but later ho joined the combatant branch with a commission: He saw service with th© New Zealanders in Gallipoli and France practically continuously sinco they first went into action. Mr. 0. A. Wilkinson,' M.P., has received word from friends in England that his son, Lieutenant Harold Wilkinson, has beon awarded the Croix de Guerre, Belgium. Lieutenant Wilkinson was previously awarded the Military Cross. Ho was severely wounded in tho Cambrai battle, hut the Eltham "Argus" reports that he is now in a fair way to recovery. News was received by cablegram a few days ago that 2nd Lieutenant Kennedy Luke was in hospital in Rouen, seriously ill, as tho result of gunshot wounds in the head, sustained during the recent fighting. Prior to enlisting with tho Seventeenth Reinforcements, Lieutenant Luke was on tho staff of the City Engineer, Wellington. He is a son of Mr. C. M. Luke, of Wellington, and, according to cable advices r,n Saturday evening, he is progressing as well as can ho expected. The Rev. E. 0. Blamires, of Haivcra, who has been transferred to Hamilton, was with his wife given a send-off atHawera on Thursday evening, and presented with a purse of sovereigns, various speakers, including the vicar of St. Mary's Church, paying tributes to the excellent work Mr. Blamires had done during the fee,- years ho had been in Hawera.

Captain Douglas M. Outhbertson, N.Z.F.A. (died of wounds), was the youngost son of Mrs. B-. F. Cuthbertson, of Invercargill. Captain Cuthbertson joined the Fourth Rcinforcements, and obtained a commission as second lieutenant. Ho quickly proved himself a very efficient officer, and in the field rendered good service, winning promotion first to tho rank of lieutenant and then io that cf captain. Ho was more than onco mentioned in dispatches. Captain Outhbertson had an unbroken record of service from the time of enlistment, and passed through all tho big actions in which the New Zealand Division was engaged. He was in the office of Mr. K It. AYilson, architect, Invercargill, at the time of enlistment. The deceased's brother, Lieutenant Denniston Outhbertson, was recently reported ill with dysentery and at last advice was in Brock-' enhurst Hospital. ' Mr. G. P. Hanna, well known in Wellington swimming circles, and also as a cartoonist, is now second lieutenant of the Second Now Zealand Light Trench Mortar Battery. Although ho has been on active service for nearly two years, he has escaped vounds and sickness. Professor T. A. Hunter, has been elected to represent Victoria College Court of Convocation on the New Zealand University Senate. /Dr. Hunter's was the only nomination, and he has therefore been declared duly elected. Sergeant Victor Hoare, recently awarded the Croix de Guerre,and who was previously mentioned in Sir Dcuglas Haig's dispatches for distinguished service, is tho fifth son of Mrs. J. Hoare, Howell's Avenue, Newtown. Leaving Wellington with ihe Howitzer Batterv, Fifth Reinforcements, he served" all through the Gallipoli campaign, and has since been 111 continuous service in France. Mrs. .l.Koare is a sister of the late Adjutant-Cap-tain Victor Kelsall, who was killed in action on Gallipoli, and she has two other sons on active service in France, also a fourth son, Sergeant-Major J. R. Hoare, who was wounded and returned home twelve months ago. News has been received by cable that Private W. Bridger has been wounded in action at the front, and is now confined to a French hospital. Private Bridger was well Known as a carrier between AVellington and beatown. . Mr E AY. Kane returned to \\ ellington yesterday from a trip to Mount Cook. . ' Mr. C. M. Luke returned by the Maori from tho south yesterday. News has just been received that Lieutenant Stanley Berryman, second son of Mr. H. 6. Berryman, of Stanley Downs, Nelson, has been killed in action. He was one of the first New Zealanders to respond to the Empire s call, volunteering on August 5, 1914 I sailing from AVellington with the Main ; Body in October as sergeant 111 the j Pjth Canterbury Mounted Rifles. He I served throughout tho Gallipoli campaign, where ho was wounded twice, and was subsequently invalided to England. Later he took a course of musketry and Lewis machine-gunnery at tho School of Musketry, Hythe, and passed at the head of the list, obtaining tiie "distinguished" certificate. He was sent back to New Zealand in 1 ( J16 for his commission, and again left for the front with the Twenty-sixth Reinforcements last year. He took part in tho capture of Gaza, and, after recovering from dysentery, returned from the hospital in" Egypt to tho Palestine region, where- he was killed in action on 'March 30. Before entering military life, Mr. Berryman was engaged sheepfarming, and managed his father's estates at Mount Noble- (North Canterbury) and Stanley Downs (Nelson). He was educated at the Ashburlon High School, where he won a scholarship. Ho was a prominent r.thletc, and especially indulged in cricket. His death will bo sincerely regretted by a'wide circle of friends. His brother has had a distinguished military career :in France, but is at present .suffering badly from gas poisoning. Mr. John George Seed, who had for many years been connected with Union Company's vessels, died at his residence in Levy AVellington, on Friday, after a. long illness. Tho lato Mr. Seed was tho son of the latu Mr. William Seed, Secretary for Customs, and was born in Auckland 57 years ago. On completing his education he became an apprentice in Messrs. AV. Cable and Co.'s foundry in AVellington. Ho afterwards went Home to gain further engineering experience, and entered tho service of Messrs. Denny Bros., of Dumbarton, who have built so many vessels for the Union Company. In 1890 ho camo back to New Zealand in tho orgineroom of the Monowni, and wl'tn, owing to the state of his health, he was obliged to come ashore about nine months ago, he was chief engineer of that vessel. Tho lato Mr. Seed has loft a widow and two children. The cause of death was heart trouble.