PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 272, 6 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Pros* Association message states that Sir James Allen." ActtoPrime Minister, who has been on a visit to kelson. « proceeding to Motueka and Takaka. and thence to the West Const. The Hon. G. W. Russell lias gone north to visit Aucklaud and Hamilton. 1 eaterday ho was at Hamilton. Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. . Sleeman, 1.G.5., Director of Military framing, has roturned from a tour of inspection of tho Auckland and Wellington districts, Ho intends to' leave for Picton to-morrow to conduct an exercisa camp for officers. ' Tho Camp Commandant at Featherston announces the death of No. 81,208 Private R, Or. Elder, of tho 40th Specialist Company, who died at Waikanae on August 2 A Press Association message from Stratford states:—Mr. Frederick George Hartlev, manager of the National Bank here, died on Sunday from a sudden heart seizure. Deceased was well known throughout the Dominion. He was aged fiftyfour. News has been received in Christchurch, a Press Association telegram states, that Lieutenant 11. S. Richards, New Zealand Rhodes scholar for 1914, and tho first Canterbury man to attain that honour, has been killed in action, lieutenant Richards went Home in 1915 and passed his suspensions examinations, after which he joined the Essex Regiment. Ho was wounded at tho Battle of the Soimne, and spent thirteen months in hospital.. On recovering lie put in a courso of Imping at an aero'lronic, joining the Royal Plying Corps, and returned to the front comparatively recently. Corporal Norman T. Goodor, 6on of Mr. N. J. Gooder, Taitvillc, who has been on active service for nearly four vears, is coming tack to New Zealand oil furloiHi. Corporal Gooder, who went away with the N.Z.M.C. (Main Body) as stretcher-bearer, has served on Gallipoli and in France. He was gassed in battle on Passchondaele Ridge, .ind although almost recovered from tho effects has been boarded for New Zealand until the gas is thoroughly out of his system. Mr. Solomon Myers was elected a member of tho Wellington Chamber of Commerce at yesterday's meeting of the. council. Colonol rortor, C.8., Inspector of Recruiting Services, has returned from the south. Tho sudden death of Mr. Joseph Temple White, brother of tho Rev. J. 11. White, of Brooklyn, and uncle of Mr. 11. Temple White, the Wellington organist. occurred at Auckland last Thursday. Deceased, who arrived in New Zealand in tho 'eighties, lived in Taranaki before going to Auckland. Ho was prominent. in temperance circle?. Mr. Lewis Oughton, a resident. _of Wellington for the past lr> years, died suddenly at breakfast on Sunday at 'lis residence, Tahi SI root, Minimal'. He was born in London U7 vears ago, and was brought up to (he building trade. In 1871 he arrived from tho Old Country in the ship Conilict, and remained in Wellington for the remainder of his life. For some years he was in partnership with !h\ W. A. Ohoto. the firm, carrying out. many largo bricklaying contracts in the city, tip to the time of his death Mr. Ongiiton had enjoyed excellent. health, lie has left a widow and a family of six sons, tiro of whom aro employed at Foithoraton Camp, and four daughters,

There was a large attendance on Saturday afternoon at tho funeral of the late Mr. James P. Kelly, of tho Railway Department, and •cx-Mnynr. of Eastbourne. Tho service at the Basilica, Hill Street, was conducted by the Rev. Father Dignan, attended by tho Rev. Fathers O'Connor, Gondringer, Devoy, Oiittrim, and Culle.i. The Rev. Father Diznan also officiated at the interment, which took place at ICarori. The chief mourner.-) wero the deceased's three sons, Messrs. Bert Kelly, I'. Kellv, and L. Kelly. Tho pall-bearers wero Messrs. 11. M'Keowen, J. P. M'Kcowen, D. D. Weir, and N. Ewart, of the clerical department of lho locomotivo branch of the railway, of which the late Sir. Kelly was formerly chief clerk. There were present the Hon. T. M. Wilford, Major A. A. Corrigan, Major James O'Sullivan, and the following officers of the Railway Department: Messrs. R. W. M'Villy (Assistant General Manager), A. W. Mount (chief clerk), IT. Buxton (chief traffic manager). F. W. M'Lean (chief engineer), H. 11. Jackson (chief mechanical engineer), J. Mac-Don-ald (chief accountant), H. Baxter (controller of stores), 11. J. Wynne signal engineer), W. Ridler (chief record clerk), and C. A. Piper (assistant traffic manager). The Iwrough of Eastbourne was represented by Messrs. 1\ Levi (Mayor), ,T. S. Day (town clerk), S. Ross, and Marquis. Others present included Messrs. J. E. Fitzgerald, W. J. Butler (chief clerk, Defence Department), Troup, and T. Bourke, and Captain G. T. Hull.

Lieutenant-Colonel E. J. O'Noill, D.5.0., who served in the South African, war, ;.nd left there at the. beginning of tho present war. has again been commended by Sir Douglas Ilaig. This ;.3 the third occasion on which Dr. O'Neill (a well-known Dunedin practitioner) has been mentioned in dispatches. He is an old Otago Vnivcrsitv student, and a. llugby footballer. His father was a wellknown New Zealand police officer.

The Military Cross won by the Into Lieutenant A. C. Cooper was presented lo his mother, Mrs. Thomas Agnew, of IVaihi, by the Governor-General at Morrinsville. The award was made for acts of gallantry in the field and for devotion to duty. Lieutenant Cooper led his platoon into action in France with gr«u couracc aiid initiative, and subsequently* although wounded, remained at his post and directed an incessant firo upon the enemy.

A large .number of tho residents at Hataitai assembled at tho Pavilion on Saturday evening to say good-bye to Mr. J. ,S. Barton, who lias been appointed Stipendiary Magistrate at Gisborne. Mr. A. Leigh "Hunt, president of tho Ratepavers' Association, in making a presentation to Mr. and Mrs. Barton on bclial: of the residents, expressed regret; that Hataitai was losing Mr. Barton, who, during his Tesidenco of eight years at Hataitai had been, identified with every movement affecting tho welfare of tho district. Mr. E. A. Batt, president of tho Hataitai Bathing Club, also referred to Mr. Barton's kindly interest m the club's affairs, and on behalf of tb.o members wished him overy success in his futuro career. Mr. Barton in reply said ho was sorry that he was leaving lington, but ho hoped at some future dato to return to its best and most progressiva suburb-Hataitai. Cheers were given for Mr. and Mrs. Barton and family before tho proceedings terminated. \

The Military Cross and Bar awarded to the late Captain Clive Franklin Collett. E.F.C., was presented to his mother, Mrs A. Collett, Clivo Eoad, Epsom, by His Excellency the Governor-General last week. Captain Collett, who destroyed 15 enemy machines in two months, was awarded the Military Cross on September 26. 1916, for conspicuous. gallantry and devotion to duty as a flight leader of offensive patrols during three months. On nine occasions, when opposed by large formations of enemy aircraft, ho drove down and destroyed machines, and in every engagement his gallantry and dash were most marked. On October 17, 1017, he was awarded the Bar to his Military Cross. In three weeks lis successfully engaged and destroyed five enemy machines, three of which were accounted for on one day. The gallant officer met his death on December 2.1. owing to an accident while flying in Scotland.

The funeral of tho late Mr. _J. S. Welch, who died on Friday at his residence, Wright Street, Wellington, took place yesterday afternoon. The interment was at Karori Cemetery. Mr. Welch, who was 87 years of age, was a very old officer of the Lands and Survey Department, his original service running back in Otago to 18C7. For several years ho was an engineer in the Public Works Department, and surveyed a considerable portion of the railway lino from Duncdin northwards. About 41 years ago he rejoined the Survey Department in Canterbury as District Surveyor at Akaroa, and continued in the field until 1831, when failing health compelled liiui to join tho Wellington office as senior draughtsman, a position he retained with tho greatest credit until lie retired on superannuation under the ago limit in 195 D. J[r. Welch was a highly-esteemed officer who never spared himself. He is survived by his widow, two sons Air. John Welch, electrical engineer on tho Waihi Company's staff at Horohoro; Mr. Nugent Welch, now on aclivo and two daughters, Misses I. and Jessia Welch. Tho funeral was attended by a large and representative number of prominent citizens, including Mr. T. S. Broderiek, UnderSecretary for Lands; Mr. L. 11. Wilmol, Surveyor-General; Mr. G. R. M Ci«re> Commissioner of Crown Lands; and r. W B Montgomery, Comptroller of Customs. ! The pall-bearers were Messis. Hulse, Cachmaile, Lundius, and M Lormack, old officers of the Lands Department. Of the retired bends of the lauds Department, Messrs. J. W. A. Merchant. J Stranehon. 1.5.0., and ,T. MTvmzie, ISO F.P.G.S., were among the mourners' 'The Eev. Dr. Kennedy Elliott, DD.. officiated at the graveside.