PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 205, 18 May 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Their Excellencies the Govcrnor-G«a cral and the Countess of Liverpool, wht left Wellington for Rotorim on Tuesday, will go on to Auckland about tho end of the month and remain in that city for a few weeks.

The Hon. T. M. Wilford, Minister of Justice and Marine, returned from Auckland yesterday afternoon.

Information has been received that Captain If. W. AVrightfoiij M.G., who was wounded in October last, and who has been for some lime at Brockenhurst Hospital, is returning (o the Dominion, lie left with the Sccond Reinforcements, l'rior lo enlisting lie was farming at Ohingaiti and Carnarvon.

Major Frank Hume, who returned from England with 0110 of the recently-arrived drafts, is lo succeed Major S'. G. Sandle, N.Z.R.A.. as staff office'' of the Coast Defence Troops in the Wellington military district. Maior Sandle is proceeding lo the front.

Both Mr:"John O'Slica. (city solicitor) and Mr. 11. Godber (chief rales clerk), of Class B in the Second Division, hnvo been turned down as unfit for activo service. .. . ,

Cadet Richardson, a son of General 8. G. Richardson, General :: Officer Commanding New Zealand Forces in England, arrived in Wellington this week from England. ■ .

Mr. W. jr. Singleton', of <he New Zealand Dairy Division, is at present on £ business visit lo the South 'Inland.

On the application"of' Mr. A.. J. Luke in tho Supreme Court' yesterday, His Honour Mr. Justice Edwards admitted Miss.Clirissy Curry, daughter of Mr.- William Curry, of Wanganui. as a solicitor.

Private I'iercv Charles Williamson, reported killed in action on April 5, in France. was the third son Of Mr. Martin Williamson, of Wellington, and.'was 21 years of age.: Before enlisting he was employed at the Dominion Elecirio Light Works at' Tikiorangi. ' He left with the Twenty-eighth Reinforcements..

Lieutenant G. B. Dull, Royal-Engineers, who was admitted last: month to the Bth Hod Cross Hospital, 'Boulogne, suffering severely 'from mustard shell Ras poisonin», is'how in a hospital in London, and is progressing favourably. Lieutenant Dall is ii son of Mr. G. B. Dall, Assist-ant-Secretary Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington.

Mr. H. D; Bates, of Wanganui, ha 6 received a cable message informing him of the death of his father, Colonel H. Strat. toii Bates, at. his home, "Lnngstons," Al-r-sford. Hamnshir". England. Tho late Colonel Stratton Bates took a. great inIwi'st in connection with tho New Zenlam! soldiers'. welfare. numbers.of whom accepted the hospitality of liis home. He saw most of the fighting with the Imperial troops here in the early 'sixties as a young olicer, being for some time attached to-General Cameron's staff in tho Waikato, and later on as aide-de-camp to Sir George Grey' at Auckland. Colonel Bates is the .last of the officers of the 65th Regiment who served'in-New Zealand.