PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 282, 17 August 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Amongst the passengers foi' Sydney thin .week were Captain Jl'Arthur, manager of the Wellington branch of Burns, l'hiln, Ltd., and Captain Hales, lately wharfinger for the Union Company at Grey, mouth, and now on transfer to Sydney. The death is announced uf Mr. John Lundon, manager of the Bank of New I South Wales-at Cambridge. The late Sir. Lundon was the third son of ilio late •Mr. David Lundon, Collector of Customs at the Thames in the early days of the goldlield, and had been in the service of the talk for J3 years. For some years he was in charge of the Pahiatmi branch, I and was then transferred for health reasons to Cambridge. Further particulars in regard to the death of Private Fred. A. E. Swincy, latu of Wellington, who was killed in action in Franco on May 8, have 'been received. In a letter to the mother of the deceased soldier, Mrs. E. Stviney, of ill Pirie Street, Second Lieutenant A. Owen, of the Ist Company, Ist Canterbury Infantry Battalion, says: "As 1 am the officer in charge of the platoon in which he was, I fool it, my duty to give you full particulars of tiie pad event. Ho was one of a party holding a Lewis gun position in the village of llebutorne. At about 5 a.m. they wero shelled, and your son was killed instantaneously by the second .shell. The corporal in charge was also killed by the same shell. They wore buried together in the village, and the padro conducted the servioe. I myself supervised the removal of his body to. the Field Ambulance station. Eis comrades carved a stone which was erected over the grave. I can enly eend you, Mrs. Svfiney, and all his relations, the deepest sympathy of all of us in your ureal: sorrow, and may you find consolation in the fact that his death was a glorious one—in the service cf his country. Your son, unfortunately, was only a short time witli us, but I found him'willin" and cheerfuK and at all limes prepared to do his duty. Ris death is a real loss to the company." The late Pri-v-'ite Swinsy was '21 years of age, anil enlisted with' the Thirty-second Reinforcements.

A presentation'of a case of pipes and a safety razor was. mads to Mr. John Halliburton by his fellow employees at Mr. 11. Savage's saddlery warehouse. Mr. IJailiburlon, who goes into camp with the Forty-fifth Reinforcements, also received a substantial gift from his employer.