PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 17, 15 October 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Prime Minister (Rifeht Hon'. W. F. Massey) and the Minister of Finance (Sir Joseph Ward) reached Wellington yesterday afternoon by train from Auckland. Mrs. Massey and Lady Ward, who had met the Ministers in Auckland, accompanied them'. Sir James Allen, Minister c.f Defence, is l expected to return to Wellington from the north to-morrow. The Hons. W. D. S. Mac Donald .and A. M. Myers returned to Wellington yesterday from Auckland. A Press Association cablegram from New York reports the death of Mr. Edward Floes, Brazilian Consul at Sydney, who was returning to Brazil. ■Captain W. Hoar, Assistant Infantry Instructor, has been appointed Instructor in Command of Junior Reinforcement in Trentham Camp. Mr. W. E. Liddle, of Johnsoivrille, received advice on Friday that his brother Herbert had been killed in France. Private.Liddle left with the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements. Dr. R. A. Cameron, X-ray specialist, is at present in camp at Awapuni, and is shortly to leave for England to take up a military X-ray position, Mr. Henry Berg, formerly a wellknown boat and yaoht-builder in Wellington, -died at Picton on Saturday at the age of 83. The late Mr. Berg sottled on a farm in Queen Charlotte Sound some few years ago. He has left a widow, and a family of three sons and six daughters. Mr. G. L. Stead was a passenger by the Manuka, which arrived at Wellington from Sydney last evening. Mr. G. D. Greenwood returned from Australia by the Manuka yesterday. Captain J. Smith, who recently retired from the Union Company's service, and who was for 27 years chief ■ of the company's coal department at | Wellington, returned from Sydney by the Manuka yesterday. Mr. W. J. M'Kay, chief dispatoh clerk in the Dunedin Telegraph Offico, , is boing promoted to a similar position in Wellington. Another clerk, who has been engaged in the Dunedin offico for ten years, Mr. J. M. MacKay, has left _on transfer to Wellington. Sergeant Harold Woodburn Wilson, N.Z.R., "died of wounds, October 3," is the second son Mr. C. G. Wilson, manager for Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen, has lost in the war. Tho tate Sergeant Wilson, who was 22 years, of ago, was educated at the Jnrercargill public school and the Otago Boys' High School, and entered tho service of Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. at Wellington. Ho enlisted at tho outbreak of wnr, and left New Zealand with the Samonn Contingent, and leturncd after eight months' service. A, year later he rejoined and leTt vith the Twenty-ninth (Reinforcements as a 6crgeant. In his earlier years ho was a prominent member of tho Dunedin and Wellington Senior Cadets, and represented tlie Otago High School on the cricket field. Captain Louis Goklar Wilßon left with tho Slain Body, ma-chine-gun section, and, after serving in Egj;pt and Gallipoli, was killed in action at the Somme on Ootober 2, 1916.