PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 190, 1 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tlio death occurred in Wellington on Monday (if Mr. Allan Sloven M'Kerrow, formerly of the Agricultural Department, 'l'lio lato Mr. M'Kerrow, who wa3 a, native of Scotland, ap-ttl P 8 was n. younger brotlior of llv. ■lames M'Kcrrow, of Wellington, and unmarried. Mr. Cecil Vernon Goultor, barrister and-solicitor, 'Med suddenly at Hastings on Monday. The. lato Mr. Coulter, who was on n risit to Hnwke's Bay, was Reined with abdominal pains on Saturday, and succumbed to shock after an operation. He was 35 years of age, was liio eldest son of Mr. Kcdwood Coulter, of "Tamiiva," Blenheim, and langnrewa," Hawke's Bay. Ho had been in practico in Wellington during the past eight years. Ho leaves a widow, tb.o youngest dangler of Mr. C. M. Tfflles. ilen, of Wellington, and late of Iselsou. Advice has been ieccivod by cablegram by Mr. IT. Olterson that his son, Sergeant Arthur Otterson, well known some years ago to footballer* in Wellington nnd Auckland, lias boon wounded in action in France. He was serving with tlio South African Forces. Mr?. Lwsi\ nf Owen SI root, Ntwlnwii, has been advised that her son, Lieut. Keith 'Little (formerly of tlio literary Btn.lt of 'J 111; Dominion), who las been suffering from trench feel, is returning to New Zealand. Gunner Joseph Konny, who left New Zealand with Ihc Main Body, has been ndmiltcd to hospital in Frnnei sulTering fropi a gunshot; wound in (he left thigh. 'Phis is tlio third tinio Gunner Kenny has bem in hospital sinco 1:0 left New Zealand.

Mr. Fred. Hodgson, nWeman of tho .Harbour Board "V" .shed, who is shortly going info camp, hits bee* presented with a, military shaving outfit by his fullow-worliors. Air. Hodgson was prominent in football circles. At the cniiclusion of the paiishioners' meeting at St. Mark's Church on Monday night, tin; vicar, the' Rev. F. C. Askew, bndo farewell t,> the Jin: Atr. Keay, assis!ant-vicar, who has been appointed vicar of tho Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Auckland, and spoke, of the cordial relations uiiieh had existed between the Kev. Mr. Kcay. the wngregation, and himself during the ten months ho had held office in the Parish of St. Mark's. On bo.hn.lf of the parishioners, the vicar presented him with four vrlnnips of linsling's "'Dictionary uf tbe Bible," and four other volumes on bohalf of the school teachers .ind choir. The recipient of tho presentations suitably responded.

Sergeant James IT. Luke, formerly of the stall' of 'Messrs. Brown and Dean, solicitors, of AVellington, and ii nephew nf the Mayor, who returned witli the last lot of wounded troops, is enjoying good general health, and his injure-l arm is beginning to show signs of restoration. Sergeant Lulw went through all the. l'lisschendaele fighting without sustaining any injury, and a few days later happened to be too near a shrapnel shell when it burst. An ugly bit of metal struck his left arm just above, 'tho wrist, mid pmashed tho bono and muscles badly. Tho member was repaired as well as possible, but so severe wore tho injuries that the arm lost animation and feeling. Now, however, n change for the better has set in, to tho intensa gvatihVilion' of Mr. Lnko ai'il his friends. Sergeant Luke, though still an out-patient at the Hospital, is doing Rod Cross work daily in Wellington.