PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 217, 1 June 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. G. W. Russell will arrive in Wellington this evening from New Plymouth.

■ Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Humphries, ot Uio Cornwall ttegiment, who has been awarded the bar to the .Military Cross, end lias just earned his promotion, is u New Zealmiiler, and was at one timo a representative Canterbury footballer. His mother (Mrs. Rowse) "was formerly '.lie. lessee of the. Excelsior Hotel, Christrliurch. Lieut-Colonel H. O'B. Deck, of the Sew Zealand Medical Corps, is to take over the control of the Kin;; George V Hospital at Rotorua on June 1 from Colon..] Stuart Newall, C.8., who has been honorary commandant of the institution since its establishment. Colonel Deck's control is to be temporary, as Colonel D. S. Wylie, of the Medical Corps, is to be officer in permanent charge of the hospital. Mr. E. W. Dallon, British Trade' Com returned to Wellington after a visit to Samoa and Tonga. The Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James Allen) and Captain Hall-Thompson have signified their intention of attending tho entertainment to bo held at the Pioneer Club on 'Yednesday evening in aid of the Navy League funds. News lias been • received to the effect that Sergeant R. B. West, second son of the late Mr. Matthew 'West, of Molesworth Street, is in hospital in England suffering from shock. He was sergeant in charge of the gun on a Homewardbound boat, recently reported to have been torpedoed. This is Serjeant-West's second experience of the kind, as he was on board the- Turnkina, outward bound to New Zealand, when she met a like fate.

Mr. T. Holt, manager of the Ada Eeevo Company, has rcturnsd to Australia. Some, of tho members of the company, including Miss Eeeve, are still ' in New Zealand. i The liev. Robert Taylor, who died on Tuesday at his residence, North Uichmond. wa3 very well known and respected in ecclesiastical circles Born in •January, 1839, at Rochdale, England, lie entered the ministry of tho United Methodist Free Church in 186G, and worked with the missionary, .John Ashworlh, through the great cotton famine. Tho late Mr Taylor, who was a close personal friend of Sir John Duckworth, married Miss Alary Holt, and camo out to New Zealand in the ITydaspcs, land--ing in Lyttelton. Un to the time.of his lie.ath lie had been in the colonies; for i.bout fifty years- He joined the Weslcyan Methodist Church in New Zealand in 1886, aiid had been stationed in Mil- 1 ton, Gore, Christclnircli (twice), Invercargill, Dunedin, Ashburlon, Northern Wairoa, Thames, Onchunga, and De.von-X-ort. In 1910 he became a supernumerary, and took up his'residence, in IJichniond, Christchurcli. Ho married his second wife, Mrs. Deacon, in IS9S. lie had five step-daughters. The deceased had been subject to heart trouble during the last ten years.

Prior to going into camp fan May 21) Air. K. (J. Poiilton. Deputy-Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Wel'ington, was the recipient of a presentation from the staff. Mr. AV. Cook iUegistrar-General) made tho presentation, wishing the recipient the best of good luck, and a safe return.

Captain Page, whose suicide is reported fronv England, was, states a Press Association message from Christchurch, _ a .native of Christchurcli, in which city his father still lives . Deceased was a well-known Territorial officer' in Auckland, where he held the. rank of major, and his wife and five children reside there. He left New Zealand as a captain of the Seventh Reinforcements, and suffered severe shell-shock in Franco over a year ago. He had since been in lirockcnhiirst Hospital. He was 41 years of age. The parents of Gunner Nicholas Peters, of Paremala, hove been advised that be is being invalided home. ' Gunner' fetors went with the Ninth Reinforcements at (lie age of sixteen years and a Hlf, and has seen nearly three years of active service. Lieutenant Allan S. Fraser, who has been wounded, left New Zealand with the Fifth Reinforcements. When he ieft ho was serving his apprenticeship' tc engineering, with the' firm of George Fraser and Sons,-Ltd., Auckland. Private James Trudgcou . of the Australian Forces, killed in action, was a brother of Mr. W. H. Trudgfon, of Masterton. A well-known Paparoa resident, Mr. C. A. Wilson, died suddenly on Tuesday. He was working about noon on his farm, accompanied by his son, when'he had a seizure. A doctor was immediately called, but Mr. Wilson did not regain consciousness, and expired at 9.30 p.m. ne was a son of the lute Mr. T. W. Wilson, and had resided at Paparoa since his boyhood. ' Us was a successful nastornlist, and a director of the North Auckland Farmers' Co-operative Union, a member of the Methodist Church,' and secretary and 'treasurer of the trust board.