PERSONAL ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 312, 21 September 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

• The '■■• Very Rev. : . ; < -. father V-, Roche, C.S.S.R., -for the .past:six years Superior at St.- Gerard's Redeiiintorist ■Monastery, Hawker.Street, Wellington; lias been' appointed Director' of - tho Redemptori'st College of St. Clement atGeelong, N.S.W. ■ His successor at St, Gerard's will be the Verylßev. Father Whelan, C.S.S.R, Tho Rev. Father. Roche , ; will leave iminediately • for Sydney.": "' .""'" '"" "'" ■ : ;

Mr. C. A." AVoolley, who was superintendent.of the' Auckland Fire Brigade until March.last, when he resigned the office after three months of sick leUve, died at Auckland on Tuesday at the ago of 53. The'late Sir. AVoolley received his early training as a fire-fignter with the London Fire Brigade,.and in 1888 took up the position of second officer to the Adelaide Fire Brigade, 'Frotn Adelaide .he went-to Auckland, taking'-lip the superintendency of the local brigade'towards'tbe end ; of 1901.

Sir. J. M'Combs, Labour member for Lyttelton, was drawn in the lest ballot. "Mr. M'Combs is forty-four years of age, and so will be classed C 2 automatically under the present regulations. Lieutenant George Simpson, of the South Wales Borderers,, whose; death in action is reported from France, ,was at. one time in the maintenance branch of the New Zealand Railways. Some, ten years or more ago he left New Zealand to try his luck in the Argentine, and there entered the service of one of the big railway companies, and m a, comparatively ' short' period he attained a high position on the company's staff.' On the outbreak of the war he left for England, and enlisted in the Imperial Army, first joining the ■Life' Guards, but—in order to see more fWiting—later transferred'to'the South bales' Borderers. With his regiment, Lieutenant Simpson participated in General liyng's sensational drive at Cambrai last year, and was wounded in the desperate fighting at the famous Bourlon Wood. Lieutenant Simpson, who- was well known in Taranaki, was ,the elder'soil of' Mr. W. J. Simpson, of Eastbourne. ■

Corporal Cornelius Patrick Lynch, Ist Battalion, Now. Zealand Riflo Brigade, eldest son of Mr. John Lynch, of Lower Hutt, died of wounds in France on September 3. He left' New Zealand in October, 1915, saw service in Egypt, and fougiit in the big battles of the Sommc, Messines, and • l'asschendaelo and the latest offensive. The deceased soldier was educated at the Lower Hutt Convent School and St. Patrick's Collego, Wellington.. Ho was well known iu Wellington and Manawatu districts..

Second-Lieutenant George Bates, D.0.M., who is reported to have beon slightly wounded, was a.member of thq "Now' Zealand Times" mechanical staff when he enlisted. He wont away with the New Zealand. Riflo Brigade as a sergeant,- and won.his .commission on tlio field.' JJis-.rriother.resides in Rintoul Street,'Wellington,

News has been received at Dunedin of the. death of- two well-known brothers:; Private Albert Edwin Brown Williams, killed in action on August 25, and Gunner Frederick Walter Drown 'Williams, died of sickness on September 4. The former was a prominent Dunedin Rugby footballer, playing for the Alh'ambra Club. He represented Otago on fifteen occasions between 1910 and. 1913. Another brother, Private James Williams, was killed in October, 1917. • ■

Mr. H. W. J. Russell, the American commercial man who had such stirring experiences in Petrograd towards the end of last year, with Mrs. Russell left for Sydney yesterday. It is Mr. Russell's intention to leave for Japan and-Siberia almost immediately. The Rev. Father AinsWorth, who has been attached to the Thorndon parish, ha.i left for Sydney "to undertake, a mission in Australia. Senior-Sergeant Gaffney, of the District" Police Office, is ,a't present suiter-, ing from, a rather severe attack of quinsy and tonsilitis. i Constable M'Alluni, who for some time past has acted ,as watch-house keeper at the Taranaki Street Police Station, has been transferred to Taumarnnui. Constable, A. A. Mitchell, of Napier, is to go to Motueka to replace Constable l'idgeon, who is 'lb be stationed at Wellington. ..Constable Barnes, of the Wellington'force, has resigned in order to volunteer for active .service. Advice was received ' yesterday , by relatives of Lieutenant G. W. Morice, late of the staff of Wellington College, that he was seriously, wounded ..'on Tuesday, September 17, and is.no'w in, hospital in France. . Mrs. C. H. Andrews, of Levin, has been advised that- her- second !"'!, Lance-Corpbral-.N. A. Andrews, *..is been received into Brockenliurst Hospital suffering' from gunshot wounds in the.'left shoulder, hip, and leg.. LaueeCorporql Andrews ei|listed on his twentieth birthday,- arid left New Zealand with the: Twenty-ninth Specialists as a machine-gunner,:, ami gained his stripe on the field! His eldest' brother, Sergeant H. D. Andrews, was-reported killed in action two years ago-in the Battle of the Sommc.

Gunner L. A. H. Moore, reported as having died at sea from iitfluenza,-)vas-a well-known' member of the Wellington Orphans' Club. His eldest brother is Mr.-L.A. Moore, .partner in the firm of "Messrs! Goodacre and Moore, indentors and importers, Tientsin",' North' China. ''■■' ■■ .-

Corporal Rewi Hugh Potts (killed-m action) was the youngest son. of Mr. Donald H. Potts, manager for Sir Waller Buchanan. Tupiirupuni, Mifsiertun, and was educated at Nelson College. At the time of-entering camp-lie. was on the staff of- S. Orbell and Co.;; Purveyors and civil engineers, Auckland. Ho passed for a commission before leaving New Zealand, and went away as sep'eant in the Thirty-second Reinforcements. 'Mr. Geoffrey-Potts, engineer,. Patent Slip Company," is \i brother of the.' deceased soldier/ .... . ■-,• , ■

' Gable information has..been received that Private H. G Sitltord, of Wellington, who was on the dangerously ill list' a week ago, is. suffering...'rom paralysis in both his'legs. Private Sidford.'who.is a- single man, had been m the service'of the Wellington; Harbour Board for twenty-four years before entering camp, and was a valued member of the accountant's,staff. He went forward .with the Twenty-fourth "Rciu--forcements. "■-.- .'■ .. . . '

Word.has been received..in Wellington of file death of. liiUicc-CbrpoVnl. T. H. Jaffray, killed in. action.,. The late Lance-Corporal Jaffray, was an. old Mount Cook school boy, and a book-binder-by trade. He was a member of. the Athletic Football Club, and a. member of the old Highland. Rifles, .of which he was secretary.for.many years,, He'was one-of the'.'founders, of the \Vel-. fington Pipe Baiid, "and .helped to form, the Caledonian Concert Company; wlueh toured New Zealand several years ago, >iving exhibitions of Highland dancfn", of which he was one of the finest exponents. After the company ..disbanded he settled in Palmerston Nortli, and later moved to Napier, where, lie became pipe-major of the Hawke'.s Bay Pipo Band. He enlistdi.lll Napier : to 'go to France. : The Rev. W. ,H."-E; Abbey, late of Levin, and'now of tlie Gisbome, is suffering from an accident to one of his eyes; He is- at- present in' the Eowen Street hospital, and' ' s 'progressing as favourably-.as-can bo expected.