PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 277, 12 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

_Mr. ,7. S.. ftobicson, manager of tho C-hristchiirch Tourist Office, left on Friday for liiyorcatgill, on account of tho i luess of his son. Mr. J. W. Hill, from Ih Wellington office, is relieving Mr. liobieson.

A Press Association telegram from breymonth otales that the Acting Prime Minister, Sir .Tames Allen, was given a_ reception at the Town Hall on Friday nignt. there wns a good attendance, tho Mayor, Mr. Lynch, presiding. Sir James Allen was presented with an address. A vote of thanks was proposed bv Lieutenant. Frickleton, V.C., araonded W Pitvnto Willis, a returned Anzac. Sir James Allen ospecia ly appreciated the fact that the soldiers had proposed tho motion. ~D r,f . J ™ !l op' at'present in charge of the Seacliff Mental Hospital, is to be transferred to tie Nelson Hospital. Ho will lie succeeded at Seacliff by Dr. Jeffcry.

A Press Association telegram from laumarunm states that Mrs. W H So V« w'K™ id V n«W-'Tlio veir- nAt ack T r Uve(l for rawnteM yea» at Upper Hv?t, and for eight years at iaumanmui. She was Mayoress of raumai'unui a few years back. News has been received of the death m action of Private Albert James te f oUrth snn of the latß Mr. James &f f ° r Jl S ny i ,ears Cit >' Drainage Inspector. Tho decensed, who was unmarried, was born in Wellington 27 years ago, and received his education at To Aro School. Ho learned tho trade of a plamoer and worked in Wellington and Mmcrstpn North, afterwards going to Jtotings, where he started in business let- himself. - About three years ago ho went away with ihe"2ncl Battalion of the Rifle Brigade. Ho was in all the dentine around Arment.ieres, and in tho Battle of Pozieres two years ago ho received rw fewer than thirteen wounds. After being in hospital for nearly eighteen months ho returned to the Western front early this year, and took part in the tirst Allied push, and he wns again wounded at Albert. He,had then been transferred tn tho 2nd Anzac Cyclist Battalion, and it was in its fight of a fortnight ago that bo was killed Ths Into Private Perry, who was a brother of Mr. J. B. P. Perry, officer in charge of the Pubhc Library at Newtown, was a prominent rifle shot and swimmer. His mother lives in Bidwill Street.

The death occurred at Dcvonport last week of Mrs. Mary Jane Mays, widow of the Into Oliver Mays, who was a memher of various public bodies in Auckland. Tho husband came to New Zealand ahead of his family. Mrs. If ays arrived in Auckland "in lfsCO, and the family went to reside at Woodside, near Pnpatoetoe. The outbreak of the Maori War, followed by the advance of tho Natives into tho Lower Waikato, resulted in all 'tho women and children from the outlying districls 'being removed to Auckland for safety. Mrs. Mays wns in a conveyance with others coming to town, when they were fired upon by the Maoris, and pursued for somo distance, but succeeded in reaching Auckland in Safety. Mrs. Mays'lived the rest of her life, from 1863, at Devonport. _ In those days the ferry was accomplished by whaleboats, She was highly esteemed at Devonport, whore . her benevolent nature and many kindly acts wero well known. Having reacb«l her eighty-third year, she still retained her vigour right up to the end. Deceased is survived by her sister, four daughters, and four sons. Another son (Mr. j. P. Mays) was killed in the Boer War while serving with the N.Z. Field Artillery. The youngest sou (Mr. Arthur Mays) has heon at the front, for tho past threa years. Other sons are Mr. Selwyn Mays (Assistant Crown Prosecutor), and Mr. H. Mays, of Mount Albert.