PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 283, 19 August 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Tho Chief Justice (Sir Rqbert Stout) left 'for New Plymouth oil Saturday to preside at the criminal sessions there.

Dr. Kington-Fyffo returned to Wellington by the Maori yesterday.

Lieutenant-Colonel JI. Jf. Gard'ner was a passenger for the south by the Mararoii on Saturday.

Tho Hon. J. T. Paul, M.L.C., Joft Wellington for the south by the llararoa on Saturday.

'Mr. Mark Cohen, editor of the Dunedin "Star," arrived in AVcllingtou, yesterday, en route lo Rotorua. i

Eng.-Lieutenant 0. C. D. Lundius, son of Mr. H. Lundius, of the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, has been in the Royal Indian Marine for the past dvo years, and is now homo ■for one or two weeks' leave from (ho Mediterranean (says an English correspondent). Mr. Lundius was formerly in the NX Shipping Company's Orari, which carried troops at the beginning of the war, and his first commission in the R.T.M. was in the Kurmark, formerly a Hamburg-Amorika liner.

Among the passengers by the Maori from Lyttelton on Saturday night wero Drs. Paget and Bevcmlgo.

At the. end of this month, Mr. T. M. Cullen, Collector of Customs at Dunedin, will retire after -10 years of civil service. In 1878, Mr. Cullen entered tho Postal Department as a cadet at Onehnnga. The following year, he entered the Postal Denartment at Auckland. In 1899, Mr. Cnllen was appointed Collector of Customs at Oamarti. In 1907 he was moved to Nelson as Collector, and in 1912 was promoted to Dunedin.

Mr. W. Ranger, manager of tho Gis. borne branch of Messrs Booth, Mncftonald ami Co., has been transferred to the Nnw Plymouth brunch. Mr. G. Scott, of Auckland, will succeed Mr. Ranger at Gisborno.

Mr. M. C. Harriott. Chief Accountant of tho Public Trust Office, underwent an operation in n Dunedin private hospital a few days ago, and is reported to be tnnkincr gwfl progress towards recovery.

Mr. A. Wylie, electrical engineer to the Auckland City Council, is visiting Christchurch to inquire into tho system of supplying and distributing electrical current in that city.

Mr. William K. Wade, of Eangirbi Waikato, has an. experience, unique amongst his tribesmen, and probably amongst' the Maori race altogether. Before, the war lie was at sea in the uarquo Peru, in which he had made at least pnu voyage to England. Ho enlisted with the Main Body in Now Zealand, went to Gallipoli, and was wounded at Khoriedenlron Ridge. ■ Returning to New Zealand he was discharged owing to the injury to his arm. Shortly afterwards Mr. Wade joined the S.S. and A. Company's steamer Rarunga before- the mast, and' went to England with her on her maiden voyage, Signing off in London, lie joined'the Holt liner. Cyclops, and made a voyngc to New York and brick. Ho then entered the King Edward VIT. Navigation School in East London to study for his ticket, but being nnxioua x&- rejoin his comrades he enlisted again in the Pioneers in England in .Tulylast year. After nerving with the Maoris at the front: until June, he wiw transferred to the Royal Navy, and joins H.M.fi. Snnhill, M.F.A., as junior officer. Hβ will probably sit for his ticket in a few .months.

Mr. .Tames E. Walters, one of tho oldest residents of Auckland district, died on Thursday nt his residence, Kingsland, aged 75 years. He was born in Cornwall, England, in 1843, nnd when five years of aw was brought bv his mother to Auckland in the ship Elora in IS4S. TTp was piiqaged in dairWti? mirsuits for thirty years. Durinc the Maori war in IRSI. he'served with (lie mi'itin. and then Joined tlte enviilvv ui>d»r Contain Hardinsrten, remaining with that force for nine year';. When tlif vnvious (ronna w»re amnlf»nnin)p'l in the Nixon Li<rht TCwse. under Cnntnin Isaacs. Mr. Walters w.is seri?»nit-maior. Deceased w.ia nn enthusiasl'V hiptoVi , of tbn Auckland A. and P. Association, and was prudent, on more than one occa- „•,„,, Tin ? U n fIPTT-n,! n n (lip AneVlnnd TTnsnitnl OhnrH-Me Board, (lie. ATifliftin Ortih.Tis' Kome Trust Board, ~n.-l .v-c ilco '« .Win" *f tlin P»n<">.' Hβ aim Montred <o fV ■MWnie. to T~l,rn MnmiVi'i. T« IS7fl lio msrri«fl a clmici't-or of Mr. nw,v r (- M-iin Bnrvivps h»r Imshapd. T'.«r« av» rtr»» snPQ nnd =ix dnn«Mov,<. Tho Becha'iites of Auckland tendered a reception to the Hon. S. Manger, a well-known Australian temperance ndrflr*h>. on ThnrMny eveninu. Mr. n. 6. Fortune, a temcrnTice worker from Cniwln. was nlfn present.

Mr A.. S. Pratt, manager in Auckland for the National Mortgage and Afrency Comtiany, Lid., lias'been transferred to the hea<l nffio." of the comnsmy, at Duncdin. Mr. Pratt, who lias been on active- service, was mot on Thursday nffrrnorm by fie ernin and reduce, n'orpTrnn+q nnri brokers of Auckland and lireseuted with a ease of iripcs and a wellfilled purse of sovereigns. Before leavini; for IV front, Sereeant Harold Beetham, N.fI.F.A.. was printed lit tlio :n n n of his snb-spctwn witli a, Bmoking outfit as a token nf the »steem in which he was held. ' The Rift was acoomnaniedwith nil sood wishes for his Mr. John S. Mun.ro. the Wellington dmrvnian, has disnowrt <f a iMirWntej. eat in his busies* mCtanee Street Mid is Icnviwr Wellington to +nke o^e. dm Irose of ii falt»'iinit run m the RnnUi.

Mr E. .T. Riirhton, managing director of the Nov.- Zealand Picture Supplies, T.td and director of Hnyward's Pictures, Ltd" who left Auckland, by the Makura. on Friday last on a business trip to America,' exnects to be nwny .about six months. He will vunt New York and all the principal centres, and will spend rome time in Los Angeta, whero the "movies" are made.