PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 310, 19 September 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Vice-Regal. His Excellency tho Governor-General left for Auckland yesterday afternoon. An investiture ceremony and presentation of medals will be- held at Government House. Auckland, to-day. His Excellency will attend tlie tree-planting ceremony connected with the Atizac Avenue works. A Press Association cablegram from London states that Lord Alexander Thynne, M.P., a son of the Marquis of Bath', lifts been killed in action-. The Hon. \V. D. S. Mac Donald loft yesterday for Gisborne. He expects to be back in Wellington early next week. At yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Education Board, the chairman (Mr. Thos. Forsyth) was appointed the board's representative on tlie Training College Committee of Advice. Mr. 0. G. Wilson, manager, for Messrs. Sa-rgood, Son, and Ewen, who recently went into a private hospital to undergo a minor operation, has completely'recovered and resumed duty. Tlie following resignations of teachers were accepted by the Education Board yesterday: Mr. A. J. Harding, Levin; Mr. J. M. Beeehey, Clareville; Miss C. Talbot, home science instructress; Mrs. B. Farquhar, Nowtown (school for children suffering with infantile paralysis): Miss N. I. Welsby, Mount Cook Infants. " Private Jnnies Leslie Howie, reported killed in action in France on August 31, was the only 6on of Mr. James Howie, of Ohiro Road. He was a native of Wellington, and received Ins education at the Brooklyn School and Wellington-College. At tho time of his enlistment be was engaged in farming pursuits iii the Waikato. He left with the Main Body, was at tlie at Gallipoli, and afterwards served in France, where he was wounded at the battle of the Somme. Private Howie was invalided to England,-and after recovery proceeded again to Franco, where he remained till the end carao. Tho school flag at Brooklyn yesterday was hoisted out of respect to the memory of the deceased soldier and old scholar. *

In tbe report of the Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, presented to the members at tho meeting last evening, feeling reference was ma<le to tho deaths on tbe battlefield of the following :—Roy Robinsom, Charles Still, Victor Adair, C. M'Arthur, A. Hall, W. Bishop, G. Tait, H. M'Cutehcon, and J M'K. Boyle.

Advico has been received tlinfc Private W. E. Tyer, second son of Mr. and Mrs. A. tyer, Featherston, _ was killed in action on August 31. Pnvato Tyer was born in Wellington, nud completed his education at Wellington Collego. Before enlisting he was forming at Hiuakura, Wairarapa. Gunner Edward Harle Giles, ono of tho Fortieth Reinforcements reported to havo diod at sea, was the second i,on of Mr. T. Harle Giles, Conciliation Commissioner for tho Auckland district. Ho was 20 years of ago. His elder brother, Alfred, has been on active servico for three years, and is now in hospital in England, suffering from trench fever. At tho ago of 90 years, Lady Osborne Gibbcs died at her residence at Mount Eden, Auckland, on Sunday. Deceased was tho relict of the late Sir Samuel Osborne Gibbes, Bart., and mother of Sir Edward Osborne Gibbes, late Secretary for Education. Her husband died at Whangarei about thirty years ago. Sir Samuel and Lady Gibbes arrived in New Zealand in the early days, and made their home (it Whangarei. Mr. Philip Osborne Gibbes, of Gilbert Island, is also a son of deceased, and there are nlso four daughters resident in tho Dominion, Mr. 11. A. Beauchami), general manager of Kodak, Australasia, Ltd., loft on a visit to the South Island last evening. ,

Flyiug-Lieutenant S. Dawson, son of Mr. Robert Dawson, Masterton, who recently escaped from Denmark, where ho had been interned, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross lor conspicuous liravery in connection with aerial lighting. Lieutenant Dawson has cabled to Mr. Dawson that ho and his threo brothers, who aro on active service, aro well.

Mr. J. V. Walle, fl.Sc, head' of tlio mathematics and science departments of fcho Wellington Technical College, has been appointed temporary assistantinspector of technical schools. The engagement is to be until tho end of the yoar.