PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 27, 26 October 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sergeant C. I\. Jennens, N.Z.R.8., of Nelson, has been awarded the Military' -Medal.' '.Prior~t<r. e'rilistitigfffoni ■ Ash.biirton, he was o'ii'the staff of Hie Bank bT New South Wales. His brother. Sergeant T. M. Jennens, who has performed continuous duty on H.M.iS'.Z.' transports siiice'febi'iiary; 1916," is at present temporarily' attached .to - Base" Kecords, .Wellington. ' .-.' .' : . '.." .".'.

..Second. Lieutenant. Leslie. Poster, of ■Wellington, who- bus. been' awarded the Military Gross 'j'or gallantry on the field, is the son- of -M'iv W. H. L. .Ji'ostp.r.'hea.dmaster of- the Clyde Quay School ami chairman, of the -Wellington .Headmasters' Association.- Lieutenant Foster, who was on, the- staff- of; the. Union-Bank ot Australia.-.-left.-New Zealand , with the Seventh-Reinforcements, arid-, has come through .all the big engagements, on the Somme, ah Messiucs, and Passchendaele unscathed.- Mr.-Foster was;the recipient of.many congratulations yesterday.

Messrs. ]?'.'.Gl Page arid C. V. Smith; who hare been in the service : of Messrs. K;irkcaldie' and" Slaiiis, 'Ltd:,' for -the past, sixteen 'years and seventeen years respectively, lia'Vc now been appointed to the" board of directors' of tho company.

- Mr.-Claude Wakelin, -Inspectpr. of laclories at Masterton, has been transferred to Napier. Ho-is being succeeded by •Mr. V..K. Hooper, Inspector' of .1 actones at Duuedin;;. • ■• ...... News 'lias been ■ received' that-' Corporal I]". Ct. Shakos, of- Wellington, -foiwrly mi "the staff of the Public 'trust Otlice, and known in amateur theatrical circles, lia's'beeh wounded in the shoulder, Ho is now in a hospital in England. Tho death occurred on Thursday afternoon, at his residence in Woodford Itoad,Auckland, of Captain Alexander l'arnuhar, for a great many years one ot the best-known shipmasters in (he northern part of New Zealand. Captain l'arquhar was born at. Peterhead, Scotland, and went to sea when he was a boy. Coming out to the colonics as a voting man he entered the New Zealand Government, service, and- was. in charge ot one of its steamers employed in transporting troops; : etc., during the Maori war. When the Thames goldficld was opened in 1867 he was appointed master of a steamer running to there from Auckland, 'and he remained .in. .that trade for nearly -M years, l-'or some years before he retired from the sea he was the commodore of the Northern Conipany'6 fleet. The deceased was a genial, large hearted' man, who made hosts of friends and was'very ■ popular. Ho was twice married, his second wife being-.thc youngest daughter of Ihe late Miv John Gibbous,- u'f the Mnnukftu.,' ■

Dr. Hamilton Gilmer, of Wellington, lias been appointed Chief Medical Officer of the New /,c;>lnnd Government Life ln'fiiirnncH Department in succession to Hie late Dr. Tims. Cahill.

The late Mr. W. C. Bnddeii, who died suddenly on Thursday, was lor many years an indefutigible worker in I he \\elliiHon Y.M.C.A. He was a member of die Doal'd of Directors, chniniiiin of the Religious Work ' Committee, and leader of the Saturday night Bible Clnss and Study Circle of Hie latter institution,, 'and "lie will be greatly missed, especially by those who attend the Sunday afternoon men's meeting and strangers- tea. Mr. Rndden was n member of the New Zealand Executive of the T.M.CA., in connection with foreign missionary won, and'also was (he representative-in Wellington of several other missionary societies! "He spent seven years as a missionary in India. -Mr. Badden was also prominent in Presbyterian circles, being an office-bearer at St.-Johns Church, organist and treasurer of the bunclay School, and also organist to the Brooklyn Presbyterian Church. - Among those who arrived in Wellington from Melbourne- by the Vjeslralin veslerdav was- Flight-Lieutenant ■ Clarence" Umbers, of Dunediii, who is on ft few mouths' furlough. Lieutenant Uinters left New Zealand as a n.c.u. on Hie staff of General Godley, and after a varied experience witli the New Zealand Expeditionary Force qualified for a con - mission in the Royal Air Force, in which connection he has teen engaged on the Salonika front. Lieu tenant Uniteis speaks glowingly of the positiort generallv in that theatre of war, particularly praising the fighting dualities of the Greek Wv, which-is doing, wonderfully good work.' The Serbian troops, too, are. now a finely organised body,- who, infighting on their own territory are doing serviceable work for the; Allies. -Lieu; tenant Umbers .intends leaving for.Dunedin on Tuesday. Cable advice received by his wife reports that Trooper E. L. Bryenta, eld-., est son of Mr. H. L. Brrentoii, Wellington South, was admitted to hospital on October 15, suffering with malarial fever.

'Mrs "R. C; Earle.'sen., of ; Wanganui, lias received a cablegram from her grand-, .son. (Lieutenant Gill-Carey who « one of the doctors at Hornchurch -Hospital)- to •'the effect that he had received information from a prisoner returned from Ger : many that Trooper Bob'Earte prisoner in Germany, recovering, from his wounds Trooper Earle, who was a.member of' King Edward's .Light Horse was reported wounded and missing on- April ')' during the German push, mid was believed to have been, killed. No word has been received from' hini since, though members of (lie family heard from a comrade'of the soldier, who was with.him when he was wounded, that his arm was shattered, that he was in a bad way, 'and- past recovery.. The latest news, indicates that he was taken prisoner and is in hospital in' Germany recovering from his'-wounds. Needless-; to say .the - news ■ has caused great gratification..to the. members of the family, and the troopera ranny'friends, who are anxiously awaiting official confirmation..