PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 258, 19 July 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain A. H. Burn, Group Commander at Nelson, has received notice to report at Trentham prior to returning on active service. Captain Burn lett' New Zealand in October, 1915, as adjutant of tho 2nd Battalion of tho New Zealand Rifle Brigade, and, after several months service in Egypt, was invalided to New Zealand. Major G. R. Blackett, M.C., will succeed Captain Burn as Group Commander at Nelson.

Captain F. F. Newman, son of Dr. A. K. Newman, M.P., has been awarded the' Military Cross. Captain Newman went to England in 1915, and obtained his commission in tho Royal Field Artillery. Later he was promoted to ho lieutenant, and at the time of tho first hi" German push in March he was attached to a battery with the Fifth Army. Tho British Infantry had retired, and Lieutenant Newman's guns on ono ridge were confronted with the German artillery advancing over another ridge. By his coolucss and determination, Lieutenant Newman kept his guns in action until the infantry could come up, so that the artillery was saved. For this he earned high commendation from his superior ofiieov, and was promoted to a captaincy and recommended for the Military Cross.

Second Lieutenant A. H. King, who left Now Zealand as a private in tho Second Enforcements, has been awarded the Military Cross. Lieutenant King's mother is a resilient of 'Wangamii. Previous to enlisting Lieutenant King was a member of tho commercial stall of Tub Dominion.

At the last meeting of the council of the New Zealand Academy of Vino Arts a resolution of sympathy was passed in connection with the death of Mr. A. 11. Turnbull, who was ono of tho oldest members of the academy, and a great lover of art.

Advico has been received by Mr. H. D. Driver, of Mount: .Eden, Auckland, that his son, Private E. 11. Driver, who was reported missing about llireo months iiro, is n prisoner of war in Germany. Private Driver enlisted in the- Eighteenth Reinforcements, and served continuously in' Flanders for 18 months, Inking part in the battles of Messines and Passchondaele. He is an old boy of tho Grafton Sohool and of the Auckland Grammar School, where ho hold a junior national scholarship. Then, after matriculation, ho studied at. tho Auckland University College, and had pnascd the first, section for the. TI.A. degree at the timo of his onli.st.mont.

Messrs. J. YV. G. Brodie, Gilmour, and Grundy, of tho British Empire Trading Company, wero passengers for Sydney by tho Moproki yesterday.

Mr. S. Hurst-Senger, of Christchurch, was a passenger for Sydney by the steamer yesterday.

Mr. A. S. Mitchell, architect, of Wellington, left for Sydney by the Moeraki yesierday.

The death occurred at the Wellington Hospital yesterday of Mr. Alexander A. Freeman,'aged SO. 'The late Mr. freeman, who was employed at the Government Printing Oilice, had been a prominent member of the Wellington Typographical Society, in which ho held, from time lo lime, various offices. At the time of his death he was a trustee. Ho was a son of Mr. Stephen Freeman, a vary old resident of Napier. His two brothers are Messrs. George 11. Freeman, of Tinakori lioad, Wellington, and Fred I Freeman, of Napier. Mr. "Freeman was I twice married, and leaves a widow and I family of four.

Mr. J. A. Belts, manager of the Pahiatua branch of the Wairarapn Farmers' Co-operative Association's stock ■department, has been appointed general manager of the association's auctioneering business throughout the Wairarapa.

Mr. Stanley E. Lambert, accountant of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company, .Ltd., has been promoted to tho position of secretary, and Mr. It, L. Button has been appointed sales' manager. Mr. J?. L. Button has been for manv years city representative of Messrs. E.'W. Mills And Co., Ltd. Mr. D. J. Nathan left, on n viait lo Sydney by the Moeraki Inst; evening.