PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 192, 3 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mv. A.. H. Tu-roVmU undeTVccnt a minoi operation at tho Boweu Street Private Hospital ou Wednesday morning. Ho is miikiug a satisfactory recovery. Mr. L. C. Hanan, who, before the war broke out, was private secretary to Dr. '!'. IT. A. Valintino, Inspeotor-Goncral of Hospitals, and lntcly lias been acting as organising secretary to the Returned Soldiers' Memorial Club campaign in Otago, has resigned his position owing to ill- , health. Ho Is nt present seriously ill I in tho Dunodin Hospital. I Sergeant E. W. Arthur, son of Mr. T. \ M. Arthur, stationmastev at Auiberloy, I has died of wounds. Deceased was 2-t I years of age, and enlisted in the Nineteenth "Remfovcorae-nts. He won the. Military Medal for distinguished services at Messines, and received severo gunshot wounds on April 7, which terminalen fatally tho following day. Another son, Private W. Arthur left with tho Thirtyfirst Reinforcements. The Hon. D.' Guthrie will return to Wellington by the New Plymouth express to-day. News has been received by Mr. and Mrs. M'Lnod, of Makino, that their second eon, Private Louis M'Leod, has died of wounds received in France, ne was 23 years of age. This is tho second son Mr. and Mrs. M'Leod have lost in tho war, and deep sympathy is extended to Vho bereaved family. Private Allan L. Lairrensqn, youngest son of Mr. <ind Mrs. .Fleming Laurenson, of Palmerston North, has been wounded in tho recent engagements in France, and is at present in hospital in England. Before enlisting with the Twelfth Reinforcements, Private Laurenson was warehouse manager for Messrs. Miller and Ahearne. Wellington. Tho Rev. W. Keay, lately assistant to tho vicar of St. Mark's Church, Wellington, will be inducted next Sunday as vicar of the Church of tho Holy Sepulchre, Khybcr Pass, Auckland, in succession to the late Rev. A. H. Colvillc. Private Archibald M. MacKinlay, of tho firm of Muir and MacKinlay, photographers, Wellington, has been wounded, whilst on , active service in France. He is the youngest son of Mrs. MacKinlay, of Mirn'mar, and left New Zealand with thft Thirty-second Reinforcements. "Gunner Alfred Whelaii, who died from wounds on April 10, was (he.youngest Mil of Mi-. T. Whelaii, 25 Springhill Road, Morninjjton, and wa* 21 years of ago. He was educated at tho Mornington School, where ha took the medal for dux boy. H> afterwards had four joars at the Otago Boys' High School. He visited Melbourne in January, 1914. with a. troop of Kins .Scouts from the Dominion. After passing the Civil Service examination be entered the Public Service in tho Internal Affairs Department in Wellington where he enlisted in the Twenty«eventh Artillery. While in Wellington he cmalificd for the Senior Civil Service. He has one brother, Leonard, in France, who left with the No. 2 Stationary Hospital on .Tune 12. 1915, with the Fifth Hβ 1 iuforcements. Gunner Whehn w n keen footballer at the High School, and afterwards played for St. John's, Wellington.