PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 276, 10 August 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir. John S. Burton, S.M., who hnl l)cen appointed Stipendiary Magistrate in Gisborne, will leave Wellington on Monday morning to lake up his new appointment. Second Lieutenant P. G. Beechey, whose death in action was reported on Thursday, was a son of Mr. J. 11. Beechey, a well-known and popular schoolmaster in the Wairarapa. The deceased, who was about thirty-five years of age, was assistant teacher at (he South Wellington school when ho enlisted.' Mr. E. ,1. ttighton, managing .director of the i\ew Zealand Picture Supplies, Ltd., who is going on a business trip to America, left by yesterday's Main Trunk train to join the Makura at Auckland. ■Lance-CorporalW. \V. Garbott, reported'killed in action on July 25, was well known in. Wellington, having resided here all his life. He was for some time in the employ of Messrs. Thomson, Lewis, and Co. As a member of ihe Boys' Institute cricket team lie made many, friends who- will deeply regret hisdeath. lie was a son of Mrs." If. Garbett, of 11 Foatlicrston Terrace, and n great-grand? son of Field-Marshal Gnrliett (England). Mrs. GiV-beit is at present absent from New Zealand, and is unaware of her sad loss. A brother of the deceased soldier is' Mr. T. Garbett. of Messrs. Keidpthorne, Prosser, and Co.'s staff. LanceCorporal .Garbett was 21 years of age at the time of his death. Jn our last'issue it was stated that Gunner Walter Cnokham hud 'been awafJwl'tliß V.C The name' of tlie gallant soldier is Walter Arthur Victor Cookman, and his onlv relatives in the dominion arc Miss Alice C'ooknwn, of Wαnaanui (sister), and Mrs. A. Chapman, of Wellington (aunt). He wis a gunner in a siege battery of the R.G.A. in France, and his decoration and promotion followed most conspicuous gallantry in the field on June 7. He is now Bombardier Lieutenant Copkman, V.C.

At the meeting of ihn Mnkara County Council yesterday a vote of condolence was passed with Councillor A. J". Taylor on the death of his brother-in-law. Private Stunrt'Henry Nairn, who was killed in action in France. He had only been three weeks in the firing-line , when ho was killed,

The death occurred on Friday.night at Masterton of Mr. Joseph Carpenter, who had been in business in- that township for many years, and who' retired only last month. The deceased, who was sixty-five years of age, had served on.tho Masterton School Committee, and. was a prominent member of the Masterton. Bowling Club. He leaves a widow, two sons, and five daughters. One of the sons is Mr. Robert J. Carpenter, until recently editor' of the "Paliiatua Herald." •

Mr. Leo :le Chateau arrived in Wellington yesterday vo make preliminary arrangements for the screening locally of "The Deemster."

The Knox College (Dunedin) Eoll of Honour contains the names of 15G students, of whnin 20 have fallen—every eighth man who enlisted. Tho Inst to give his life was Albert M. Riiinesmith, M.Sc, who was killed in France on July 2i. The master of the college referred to. Mr. lihinesmith in chapel on Monday night,, and epoke of him as a .good' student, hard-working and successful. He was a junior university scholar, a seuior echolnr in physics, and took his M.Sc, with first-class honours. The 'University, of Otago nominated him as a candidate for thi> Khodes Scholarship, and . he would have proved a. formidnble competitor'had he not been prevented by a legal technicality, as an American,-citi-zen by birth; from fulfilling the condition of Mr. Ehodcs's will..