PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 206, 20 May 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Information has beea received Unit. Quartermaster-Sergeant Arthur Roberts has been awarded the Military Medal. Qimrtormaster-Sergeant Roberts is alInohed to tho N.Zi.M.C, and is a_ Main Body man. Ho has seen service with the Now Zealand Expeditionary Force at GallipoH and Franco. During his three and three-quarter years' , service he has been out of - the fighting for tho period of only about three weeks, when he was invalided to Egypt. Hβ ia a son of Mrs. C. Roberta, of Devonport, Auckland.

Two interesting arrivals ■ from the war zono aro Flight-Liouteimnts Phil Fowler and Maurice Buckley, of the Royal Naval Air Service, who aro on special furlough aftor eixteon months of active sei'vice in the Eastern Mediterranean. Flight-Lieu-tonant Fowler is a son of Mr. Sonthey Fowler, of Foildjng, while Flight lieutenant Buckley is i\ eon of Mr. V. 11. Buckley, of Pusoy, Fairlle.

Mr. A. Den, of Ashburton, whose son, Captain. George Keith Doe, wiw killed in notion, lias received the following message* from the War Office, Whitehall, Jilted March 21, 1018:-"His Majesty tho King desires to inform von, ;.s noxt-of-Mn of tho late Cnptain Doe. of the New Zealand Rifle' Brigade, that this officer was mentioned in a dispatch from FieldMarshal Sir Douglas Haig, dated November 7, 1917, and published in tho 6ncontl supplement to tho London Gazette of tho 25th, dated December 28, 1917, for gallant and distinguished service in the field. L am to express to you tho King's high appreciation of thoso services, and to add that Hie Majesty trusts that thoir publio acknowledgment may "bo of eomo consolation in your, bereavement."

Mr. W. N. Seay, headmaster of the Add.ingr.ou School, Christchurcb, has recolved advice- that hie third son, Gunner Gordon D Seny, was killed in action on the Western front on May 8 Gunner Seay left New Zealand as paymnstoreergNint with Iho Fourteenth Reinforcements, and on reaching England threw in his stripes and transferred_ to tho artillery, undergoing lengthy training in iho Sling nnd Aldorshot Camps. Ho had boon continuously in action for over fonrtcon months in France. After leaving school ho joined tlio staff of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of that city, nnd was with that firm at the lime of-enlistment. .In sport ho was one of Now Zealand's most promising youths. At school ho distinguished, himself as a cricketer, a runner, and a footballor. After loaring Bchool ho devoted himself to lnwn tennis, and nrovpd such ii brilliant phyr. that while, yet in his teens he was playing wilh chnmpions. Anion" his ninny Ironhies was Mint Riven for Hip Siiifflen Chainnionship of South Canterbury, played nt Ashhurton, another for the Doubles Ohnmnioiiship of the United Club, with Mr. Gow as partner, defeating the New flenland champion KoMpts: also another for the Canterbury Doubles Championship with the same partner. Time did not permit him In take? mi other lirawhes <>f s-'porf in which li<* Avn* eriuolly brilliant. bu< after th" milbr'-iik of wnr he won (ho L'2fl ynrds Ohaimiionshin at the «h<nv(»rounrk f'a»t,<rhury. and tl\o ICO ynvd<i and 140 vnrds chnmnionshin* in Wellington while trainin? in Trenthnin. Tlurinc th« pnst wi'ifer he enlerc'l into the footW comiiefitioi'« on the Wesl front, and in "no moVh snored fo"r Me? .Ti»,nii":| in. unhwten tram, nnd xls-o kiHfed a :"T:ii" S ) another nnhealen fe.im. nnd made Iho mateh a dnw, for which ho was carrieil off the field.

The Hon. S. fihimizii, Consul-General in 'Australasia for Japan, has returned to "Wellington from a visit to the south. He will stay in Wellington until Thursday next. *

Advice has been received by Mrs. A. R, KHching, of Wellington, that her second sou, Sergeant George K. Kitching, of the Australian Forces, lias been wounded in tho neck and arm, in tlio recent operations in Palestine. Mrs. Kitching'e youngest Eon, Charles, yrho had been engaged in the mercantile marine, line joined the Canadian Flying Corps, and passed his oxaminationo.

Mr. E. M. Robertson, manager of the Pongaroa branch of tho Bank of New Zealand, who is to be transferred to another district, was accorded a public farewell, and was presented with an illuminated address iukl a cheque for a substantial amount. The meeting was one of the largest ever held in Pongnroa, and addresses were delivered by Mr. S. Gibson and Mr. R. B. Robertson, county chairman.

Mr. Scott Colville arrived from tho south on Saturday to complete arrangements for tho revue "Come Inside."