PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 198, 10 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

■Sir James Alien, Acting-Prime Minister, will return from llio .north to-mor-row.

Tlio Hon. G. W. n.ussell loft tor tho South Islam! Inst liighl. Jto expects to 1» back iu Wcllingtou nlJout the middle of next week.

Tho Chief Justice (Sir Itobcrt Stout) will leave for New Plymouth on Saturday morning, where lie wil! presldo at the sitliiißs of the Supremo Court.

' Mr. William Pryor, general sccrclary of tho Nov Zealand Employers' Assocvilion, who has been through n severe iIV ness in Auckland, has returned to Wellington, hut so h\r has not resumed dulv Tlis strength is slowly returning.

Sir William Cullon, Chief Justice o« Victoria, ncconipanicd by Lady Cullen: ami Miss Cullen, who liavo ken louring New Zealand, have returned to Australia.

Mr. W.' Newton, Conciliation_Commissioner, who has been transuding business in the Marlborough, Nelson, and West Coast districts, is back in Wellington again.

Mr. D. C'uddio, New Zealand Paiiy 1 , Commissioner, is at present on a busi« ! - ness visit io Auckland.

Private. Sidney Tingcy, cf AVellington,. who went away with the f wcnty-sixlli Reinforcements, and was wounded in tho back of the head at PasschcndneJo, is returning to Wellington in a few dajs lime. ;!

A private cablegram from Cairo yestordav confirms the' previously received. Press' news of the awarding of tho Mmto it Cross to Lieut. Ronald Mackenzie,, second son of -Mr. James Mackenzie,. ISO, late Surveyor-General and UnderSecretary of Lands, of Karori. Lieut Mackenzie, prior to enlisting, was-a staff surveyor in the Lands and Survey Department. Originally going into camp, with the Ninth Reinforcements, he almost immediately pot his sergeant-s stripes,, shortly following witli a l^ te ™'* a ' commission. Leaving with the rourteenth Beinforoemente, on «m«J « Egypt he was transferred to the Imperial Camel Corns. His sc-rvicesmce then has been entirely in Egypt and Palesline, and in tho latter country ha has been through nil Iho recent fighting- It is interesting to note that the small community of Karori has iMWscnt a* £»t half a dozen young men who have been awarded either tho Military Cross or tho Military Modal.