PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 306, 14 September 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister of Internal Affairs; ar* rived at Reefton yesterday morning, and inspected the hospital and received a deputation!. He was entertained at, luncheon, and left at 3.30 p.m. for Westport.—Press Assm. Colonel C. M.' Gibbon,, Chief of the General Staff, Mi for the "south' yesterday. He will be away frau Wellington about a'week. / ' A Press Association telegram from Auckland announces tht death of Mr. Thomas Buddie, aged 71', of the legal firm of Button, Buddie, and Co. Mr. Buddie was a director of a number of companies. He was born at Auckland in 18-17, and was a son of the late Rev. 1. Buddie, AVesleyart ri'mster. Hβ was educated at the Wesleyali College, Auckland.' Mr. Buddie, was appointed managing clerk for the legal firm of Whitaker and Russell, and subsequent' ly was admitted, to a partnership. Hβ was a director of .the New Zealand, Insurance Company, Auckland Gns Company, and the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. He had been for many years one of Auckland's most prominent legal and. business men. Views lias been received in Wellington that Mr. Harry Crawford Wallace, •sii brother of- Mr. AV. S. -Wallace, chemist, died at the Government Sanntoriu'm at Christchiirch, at the age of thirty years..... Mr....'Wallace, enlisted! for active service at the outbreak of tli6 war, but under the strenuous.conditions his health'broke down in'campf snd he was placed in the sanatorium, Vhere he had been ever since. Prior t-> enlisting, deceased was employed in the Bank of Now Zealand. He was well known in Wellington sporting circles, and he took.a prominent part in the affairs of the Star Boating Club. He was also si member of the Wellington, Football Club. Sergeant R.B. Hart (son of Mr. R. J. Hart, of the Board of Trade) is returning to New Zealand shortly, after loug service in France. Ho ifoughb at Armentieres, the Somme, and Messine's, and finally was severely wounded in the arm in March last. Sergeant RVt has since undergone five operations. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Stead, of Christchurch, are passengers for Sydney by the Riveriiia this trip. Captain Reece, of Christelmrch, is a. passenger on the Rirerina sailing for Sydney this morning. • Mr. H. Partridge, of Messrs. Lever, Ltd., left for Sydney by the Riverina this morning en route to England. Captain Kenneth Mackenzie, of Auckland, son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie; High Commissioner for New Zealand, who has. beeu in the New Zealand Medical Corps ' for about eighteen months, is expected back in the Dominion in October. Mr. AV. A. Banks has been elected chairman df the Canterbury Education Br.ard.. He is a brother of Mr. E. C. Banks, chairman of the Auckland Edu' cation Board., , After .twenty-eight years' service' Mr. C. A. Stubbs, secretary to the firm of Blundell Bros., Ltd., has retired. Ro was met yesterday morning try tha heads of the departments, who, in tendering honour to tho firm's old and trusted servant, preseuted him-with a purse 'of 'sovereigns and a salad bowl /for Mrs. Stubbs.. -The editor of the "Evening Post".(Mr. J. Parker), in making the presentation, mentioned that the firm had already shown their appreciation of Mr. Stubbs's \services in a tangible form. ■ Mr. Stubbs suitably replied. - ' His Grace Archbishop Redwood will leavo early this morning on l 'a trip to Australia. Lieutenant-Colonel Bernan has been appointed medical officer in charge at 1-lamner Springs. . Ho has already taken up his duties. Among tho ■ Australian officers and n.c.o.'s recently killed in action ,or died from 'voiinds were Major (Dr.) John C. AVells, A.A.M.C., of Adelaide (after roarly four years' service); Lieutenant, Alex. Dunn, of Numurkah; Lieutenant Frnd. AV. Appletoii, of Balaclava (Victoria), who was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's dispatches; Lieutenant T. V. Harris, of Maldon; Ser-goant-Miijor li. U. Gay. D.C.M., M.M.. of North Fit/voy, Melbourne; nnd Sergt A. S. Smith, M.M., of Haw•thorn, Melbourne.