PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 61, 6 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Staff-Paymaster W. J. A. Drown, E.N., of H.M.S. Philomel, has been vromoled to the rank of paymaster lieutenantcommander. Mr. Brown was actingsenior naval officer at Wellington for three years during the most critical period of tho war, and in that capacity had to carry out most responsible duties. Mr. R. F; Bollard, M.P., .has teen elected chairman of tho Railways Committee of tho House of .Representatives. A Press Association telegram from Auckland.states that tho Citizens' Committee yesterday presented Dr. Frengley with an address expressing the committee's sense of tho admirable manner in which he had discharged the duties •of his responsible office while in Auckland. Just prior to the meeting intimation was received that Dr. Frengley was to remain at Auckland. Tho death occurred on November 12 of Mr. J. B. Thompson, youngest son of Mr. 6. Thompson, of Kohinui. The late Mr. Thompson, who had been suffering from influenza, was 21 years of age, and at the time of his death was headmaster of the Mauriceville School. He was for two years on tho staff of the Terrace End School, Palmerston North. ; On the outbreak of war Mr. Thompson enlisted, but was rejected. Later he was called into CI Camp, and after spending three months there was'again rejected.

A cablegram was received on December 3 from Mr. W. 0. Oxenham, of the Land and Income Office staff, who left Now Zealand with the Twenty-seventh Specialists, that he has recovered, and is on furlough in Scotland,

Mr. Francis Hutton, of tho Magistrate's Court staff, who is convalescent from an attack of influenza, has left for Auckland for the benefit of bis health. Ho has been, granted leave of absence until after the New Year.

At a special general meeting of tho | Wellington Football Club, held on Tuesday night, the following motions were unanimously carried, members standing in silence:—"That this special meeting of members of the" Wellington Football Club desires to place on record its highest appreciation of the very great service which their late club captain, Mr. D. D. "Weir, rendered to the game of Rugby during his almost entire lifetime, iirst as a player, and afterwards as a member of the North Otago Football Union, Hawke's Bay Rugby Union, New Zealand Rugby Union, and chairman of the Management Committee of tho Wellington Rugbv Union, as well as captain of the Wellington Football Club, and extends its most sincere sympathy to his relatives." "That this meeting of the Wellington Football Club deplores the untimely death of Mr. P. R. Galvin, and desires to place on record its appreciation of the sterling services rendered to club by him in the capacity of hon. secretary, and as a member of the first fifteen, and to extend to his relatives its unbounded sympathy with them in the irreparable loss they have sustained."

The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal has been awarded to Captain W. E. Christie, of the sth Mounted Rifles .(Otago Hussars), and LieutenantColonel E. E. Porritt, M.D., of the New Zealand Medical Corps. Mr. John Gilbert Scott has been appointed registrar of brands for the Marlborough district, vice Mr. H. F. Brittain, who has been transferred. Mr. Charles Zachariah, of Wellington, lias been appointed a justice of the peace. News has been received by Mr, Robert Millar, Ponsonby, Auckland, that his son, Lieutenant Donald Millar, who was roported missing on October 1, has been repatriated, and that he is now in London. Mr. Stanley Prjme, of the firm of W. L. Prime and Son, wholesale warehousemen, of Napier, and second sun of Mr. W. L. Primo, head of the firm, died at Trentham Camp Hospital yesterday morning from influenza complications, Deceased, who was in his thirty-third year, was born in Auckland, and was well known and highly esteemed in commercial and musical circles throughout the Dominion. He has left a widow, formerly Miss Linda .Toll, of Hastings, and two children.