PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 279, 14 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS.

His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) will, leave for New Plymouth on Saturday. ' Lieutenant J. Walker, brother of Major Sir Robert Walker, General Staff Officer. Auckland district, has been awarded the ■French Croix de Guerre. Lieutenant Walker, who belongs to the Royal Scots Greys, has ibeen on continuous service on "the West front far two and a half years. Ho has been wounded once. Sir Robert Walker has two other brothers on active 'sorviee. In the course of. his remarks atthe annual meeting of the Wellington Woollen Company yesterday, the chairman (Mr. W. II."P. JSarber) said that shareholders would have learned with deep regret of the death, after a long and useful private and public career, of Sir Charles Johnston, who was for so many years chairman of the company, Mr. George Stephenson, ?nanager for the Fuller Vaudeville Company at Auckland, is suffering severely from an affection of the heart. Messrs.' l'\ W. Anderson (Christchurch), C. W. Preece (Wallace Downs), R. 6. Macdonald (Gleiilee Station), A. D. Poulton (Christchurchl, and AV. H. Brown (Cheviot) have had pilots' tickets issued them at the Soekbiini School of Aviation. Dr. Thomson, Director of the Doniiniou Musonm. returned from a visit to the south yesterday morning. News from London shows that Mr. H. B. Irving lias .retired from management at.the Savoy Theatre to join the Naval Intelligence' Service, and now passes his whole tinio at tlio Admiralty Office.

In. a supplement to the annual report of tho Wellington Woollen Company, the following reference was male to the death of tho late Mr. A. 13. Exley, of Oriental Bay;—"lt is with deep regret that tho board has to announce the death on July 19 of Mr. Albert Edwin Exley, a director of the company for some 25 years, and chairman during a portion of that period. The lato Mr. 1 Exley at all times gave close attention to the company's affairs, and his untimely decease, is a loss to the shareholders."

A very old resident of Arch Hill, Auckland, Mr. Amos Kershaw, died at his residence, aged 88 years, on Sunday last. Deceased was a. native of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, and came to New Zealand in tho ship John Scott in 1859. Mr. -Kershaw resided at Arch Hill for close on half a century. Ho is survived by five sons and four daughters. The sons aro William at Hastings, Thomas and Benjamin of Auckland, Henry in New South Wales, and Arthur at 'Nelson. The daughters are Mesdaines H. Thomas, of Grosse (N.S.W.), Archer (Ponsonby), and Miss shaw.