PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 224, 10 June 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Advice has been received that Captain Percy W. Skclly, formerly Assistant ■Adjutant-General in New Zealand, lias boon dangerously wounded in tho 'abdomen, and is now in a French hospital. Captain Skclly, who is a native of Wellington, was n well-known Territorial officer beforo lie joined tho Defence Department. When lie was wounded he was acting brigade-major. He left with the Twenty-ninth lUinforcemcnts.

Mr. W. .T. Mason, general secretary of tho Y.M.C.A. in Christclnirch, has been selected as a field secretary for that organisation on active service, and is under orders to leave with the.next reinforcement:. Tho Christclnirch hoard of directors entertained Mr. Mason at luncheon on Friday, and presented him with a complete photographic outfit and an active servico writing companion. Mr. T. C. Field, the president, spoke in' Hie highest terms of the work done by Mr. Mason during his three years' term of office. Other members of the board 'joined in tho eulogies, and wished the departing secretary a useful career at the front and a safe return. Mr. Tankard, on behalf of the staff, presented Mr. Mason with a wristlet watch. Mr. R. Ttohh, of New Plymouth, will succeed Mr. Mason.

Advice has been received by Professor Eight, of Canterbury College, that Sergeant .T. B. Condiiffe, his former assistant in the chair of economics at Canterbury College, has boon detained in England in connection with tho concentration camp tutorial scheme now being inaugurated in England by General Richardson. Sergeant Condlilfo was wounded and gassed in France in February, and, having recovered, was due to return to tho front when his services were requisitioned for other duties. Apparently the idea of the new scheme, which will subsequently ho extended to the Dominion, is to form something like a univorsity extension centre for tho benefit of all' New Zealand soldiers during their long periods of training or convalescence. In any caso, Sergeant Condliffe, who is admirably equipped for the task, was instructed recently to prepare a report, and according to a cablegram just received ho has been temporarily withheld from the firing lino as a lecturer and educational' organiser.

Lieutenants C. Davies, of the New Zealand Medical Corps in France, and Ronald F. M'Konzie, M.C., of the Imperial Camel Corps in Palestine, reported as having been promoted to tho rank of captain, are both Karori boys.

Mr. T. C. Ware, of Palnierston North, has received cabled advice that his son (Private W. G. C. Ware) has been awarded the Military Medal. Private Ware left with the Sixth Reinforcements, and went through tho Gallipoli campaign.

Mr. B. J.Hyams, of Wellington, intends leaving on a business visit to America.

Many will regret to learn of the unexpected death on Saturday evening of Mrs. Edmondson, of 20G The Terrace, widow of the Into Mr. J. Edmondson, formerly of the firm of Edmondson and Dickerson, of tßs city. Mrs. Edmondson was in the act of dressing to go out with her daughter, when eho evidently sustained a fatal heart seizure, as sho was found lying across the bed quite dead. Medical aid was' summoned, but all that the doctor could do was to testify that life was extinct. Mrs. Edmondson leave a family if threc-a son (now away with the Expeditionary Force hi Franco) and Misses Maud and' Dorothy Edmondson, with whom great sympathy will be expressed. Mrs. Edmondson Ones Miss Gray) was a native of Ireland. J he Rev Father Kimball, of Wellington South, is a nephew of the deceased. Mr. John Grigg, Longbeach, Ashburton has received advice from London that his son, Lieutenant Arthur Grigg, has been awarded the Military Cross.