PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 175, 13 April 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. J. E. Wilson, of New Plymouth, has been appointed a Relieving Magistrate—the second to be ap[>ointed. Mr. Wilson has been in practice in New Plymouth for years. He is president of the Law Society, was recently Mayor, and has taken a prominent part in Magistrates' and Supreme Court work for some years. Mr. Wilson, who is 45 years of age, 1 was formerly with Mr. F. B. Roy. \

• Lieutenant Lionel M. Hughes, killed in action, was .22 years of age,, and took his B.A. degree at the Auckland University College. when 21 years . of age. He was a teacher at the Ponsoiiby School, and held a commission as lieutenant in the Territorials, but lie enlisted as a private and rapidly gained his commission.

Captain E. Temple Perkins. R.F.A., who has been on furlough to New Zealand, is returning to England to rejoin his division. Captain Perkins is a son of ,Dr. Perkins, of Newtown. Advice has been received of, the death from wounds in France, on March 31, of Private J. L, Hartland, elder son of the late Mr. J. F. Hartland, secretary of the Auckland Racing Club. Private' Hartland was an old eoy of Chrises College and of King's College. After leaving school he entered the service of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co: at Auckland, and was in tho Tauranga branch of the company when he enlisted in the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements. Ho was 27 years of age.

Cabled news has arrived that Lieutenant 11. H. D. Bothamley, R.F.C., who was lying dangerously ill in London, is-now out of danger.

Mr. Frederick William Oscar Smith, of Nolson, has been elected by a majority of three votes (22 to 19) over Mr. Thomas Forsyth, of Wellington, to represent the Education Boards jn tlfe Middle University District on Victoria College Council, vice the late Hon. A. T. Maginnity. Mnjor V: J; Heather (younger brother of the chairman of the ■ Auckland Harbour Board), who entered the British Army, aud is now attached to the Headquarters Staff, has been promoted [o be lieutenant-colonel. Ho has been wounded four times, has been awarded tfie D.5.0., tho 1914 medal, and mentioned in dispatches no if ewer than three times. Mr. James Georgetti lias been reappointed a member, of tho Wellington Land Board. Lieutenant Donald Hamish W. H. Donaldson, New Zealand Staff Corps, reported wounded in the recent fighting, is the only son of Mr. J. Donaldson, New Zealand "Railway Department, Wanganui, late of Wellington. Lieutenant Donaldson, who was; at Wellington College, is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Australia, gaining, his commission several months before he was nineteen. ".He was musketry-in-structor for sixteen.months at Featlierston and Trentham Military Camps, and left with .the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements.

. Lieutenant D. L. Robertson, formerly assistant master at the Wanganui Technical School, and at, one. time assistant'master'At .the Carterton School, was killed in action on March 27... .'

• A-familiar figuro_ about the fruit. and produce-markets of Wellington-will he missed- through : the-death of Mr ..Geoffrey Smith, who'died, at the residence of iiis brother, Mr. W. Smith, at Havelock, on Tuesday last, at the age of 72 years. - As a ydung man the late Mr. Smith was well known in ' shipping circles, having been master of the old ketch Falcon and other coastal craft. For some years past he has been engaged as buyer at' the markets for country storekeepers and others who were unable to spare the time to attend tho .sales; . •

Cable news has been received of the death in action on March 30 in Franco of Sergeant C. Brian Taylor, only surviving son of the lato Mr. W. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor, formerly of'Taikorea. Private Taylor was twenty-one years of age, and enlisted' before he : was nineteen.- After completing-his training at' Trenchant, owing to" .his .'being wider military age, he was discharged, arid sailed"for./ England" a -few -weeks after. After six weeks in England he was accepted into his old New Zealand reinforcement, and sent to France. Ho was wounded at the Somme in September, 1916, and sent to England. His cider brother, G. B. Taylor, died of wounds last December, in Flanders., His sister is one of tho ambulance drivers at.Brockeuhurst.

Hie Rev. S. Beckingham, who . lias assumed the pastorate of the Vivian Street Baptist Church, before leaving Melbourne, was presented with a purse containing nearly 40 Commonwealth notes at a meeting of the congregation of the Canterbury Baptist Church, of which ho was pastor for four years.

The many friends of Mr. T. H. Stubbs will hear with regret tho news ol his death, which took place yesterday. The late Mr. Stubbs was widelj known in railway circles throughout the North Island, and occupied many responsible positions in the railway service. At tlie time of his death lie was relieving officer for the Wanganui district. • ;