PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 285, 21 August 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The lion. D. H. G'utbrie will leavo for FeUding iliis morning, and is to return to Wellington to-morrow.

"Mr. Eichar<l Meredith, formerly ft mernl>or of the House of Representative*; for Ashley, died yesterday, a Press Association bkgi'nm from Waimato announces. Contain W. F. Clarice has been selected from nineteen applicants for tho position of Inspector of Seamen, vico Captain Bnvr, who has returned to sea service. Captain Clarko has been in the local Government Shipping Office for some time, and his duties have brought him in close touch with tho work dealing with the engagement and dismissal of seamen. On Monday evening, prior to a visit to Great Britain, Mr. H-.-W. Dalton, His Majesty's Trade Commissioner in Now Zealand, wa3 entertained at dinner by personal friends in Wellington. Mr. Dalton sails 011 Thursday. The death is announced by a Press Association message from Chnstchureh of tho Rev. N. R. Campbell, late of the ,\muri and Cheviot districts,, and one ot the oldest Presbyterian, ministers in Canterbury, and liko ot Mr. Harry Wells, tho-well-lniown- organist. Colonel R. A. ChalTey, Y. 0., Officer Commanding tho Canterburj Jniit.ii) District; JlSjor W. C. Morrison, General Stall' Officer, and Captain D. M. Robertson, Assistant Adjutant-General loi the districl; Colonel .1. C. Nichols, Oflicer Commanding the Otago Military District; Major 11. A. Cooper, General Stall Officer; and Captain G. Myers, Assistant Adjutant-General, arrived in Wellington yesterday morning to attend tho conleienco of officers called to consider the .Defence Expenditure Commission s report.

Cable advico lias been received by Mv. W. Nicol. of Wellington, that Ins son. Captain. Kenneth Nicol, M.C., is missing, and believed to be dead. CJP' tain Nicol, who was associated with his father in a paint and paperhanging business in Wellington; went away with tho Sixth Reinforcements as .a- sergeant. Y>'ilh that force ho. wont to Egypt, anil saw sorvice 011 Gallipoli, and snbsequenti"y ni France, when ho won the Military .Cross. Some time ago ho ra transferred from tho Now Wland Expeditionary I'orce to an Imperial unit, rind was sent with -,i special expeditionary force to Mesopotamia. Tho last letter received by his people was written on Persian territory, so that it is not at nil unlikely that lie was a member of tho British force reported last week as having .reached Baku on tho western sido of tho Caspian Sen. Lieutenant Nicol, Who was nnmarned, was in his twenty-fourth year. Mr. ,T o hn Nicol, plumber, of Lower Cuba Street, is Captain Nicol's uncle.

Mr. J. F. Atkins, a member of tho Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce, is to go into camp shortly. In taking leave of Mr. Atkins, members of the chamber 6poke of the good work ho had done, and expressed a hope that he would soon be back with them a?am.

Mr. Michael Fraer, who died in Kaiapoi recently, was for many years a public man in Otngo. Born in Lamiceston 74 years ago, ho went to Victoria when a lad, and settled in Otngo in 1865. He was Mayor of Cromwell for sevenu ypars t and was one time chairman of tlic Otngo Education Board. Ono of his sons is Mr. William Fraer, of Dunedin, formerly' of To Aro House, Wellington, and another (Mr. Frank Fraer, now in camp) at ono timo managed a Wellington business. Mrs. Fraer, senr., survives her husband.. Tho late Mr. Fraer was a man of sterling worth and respected by everyone who knew him.

The death is announced of a well-known pettier of Irwell, Mr. Henry Edward Davics, in his eighty-first year, flio lalo Mr. Davies was born-in Caed-Crwn, in tho parish of Blatherston, Pembroke-' uhiro, Wales, 111 1838, and camo to New inland bv tho ahip Amoor in 1861.

Mr. Charles 1-alliser, proprietor for some vears of sevoral pliarmnccutical establishments in Wellington, intends to tnko up farming pursuits for the benefit of his health.