PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 76, 24 December 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir. James Allen left yesterday afternoon for a brief holiday in the south. The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald will spend the holidays in the Gisbomc district. The Hons. W. H. Hemes and A. M. Myers will represent the Government at Auckland in welcoming the French Mission (General Pau and party). Mr. Herlies will go north on Wednesday. The Hon. T. M. Wilford is having a few days' holiday in the south. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch announces tho death of Mr. George Rutherford, eged sixty-nine. He was a brother to the late Mr. Andrew Rutherford, an ex-member of Parliament. Mr. Rutherford was a native of Victoria. He went to Canterbury with his parents when ho was ten years old. He was educated at Christ's College, and was on his father's run at Leslie Hills for some years, and in 1875, moved to the Dalethorpo Station. Ha was interested in 1 local politics, and was at various times ■a member of the Sehv.yn County Council, of the Selwyn School Committee, and was for ten years chairman of the Road Board. He was also a life member of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association. Mr. Rutherford was a keen sportsman, and rode hunters and'steeplechasers with success. Ho also played football, cricket, and other sports. He was married in 1877 to Miss-Bain, who died a few; years after, leaving one son and one daughter.

Mr. Henry C. Bovren, R. 8., son of' Mrs. C. Bowcn, of Christchurch, has been mentioned in dispatches and awarded the .Order of the British Empire! Gs.ptain 'Bowen, who took his B.Sc._ degree at Canterbury College, was working on the railways in Madras,'lndia, when war broke out, and soon after volunteered and was sent to Mesopotamia, where he has 6ince been assisting in tho construction of railways for the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force.

Mrs. Young, of 55 Bowen Street, has received advice from the Admiralty that her son, Engineer Sub-Lieutenant Edward Charles E. Young, died on December 19, at Huslar Hospital, from pneumonia. The lato Sub-Lieutenant Young, who was 29 years of nge, left New Zealand wilh tlie Twenty-eighth Reinforcement, hut later received a .commission iu Ihe Navy, serving for some lime on H.M.S. Teutonic, which was engaged escorting troops between Halifax and London. When he first enlisted the late Mr. Young was an engineer on one of the Union Steam Ship Company's steamers, and had been for some time in Ihe transport service. Ho was an exstudent of Canterbury College. His brother, Sir. John Young, left New Zealand with the Main Body, and after between two and three years' active service in Egypt, was invalided back to New Zealand. Deceased's brother-in-law, Lieutenant Arthur Aldridge, of the New Zealand E nil way Engineers, was lulled on Gallipoli towards the end of 1915. The lato Mr. Young was married in 1914 to a daughter of Mr. W. Lynfikey, . of North Canterbury, but his wife died in 1915.

Mr. George H. Mason will retire in June next from'the position-of registrar of Canterbury College, which he lias held since 1908. Mr. Mason has ■ been president of the New Zealand Rugby Unidn and the Canterbury Rugby Union, and was manager of the "All Black team which visited California a few years ago.

Mr. H. S. Dawe, manager of the Ashburton .Electric Supply Company, died last week from'influenza. He was the only son of Mr, James Dawe, of St. Albans, Christchurch, and wns horn at Lyttelton thirty-four years ago. He was educated at Warwick House Christchurch, on leaving which he studied electrical engineering, a.Td for a considerable period was in the employ of Messrs. Craddock and Co., Christchurch. He went to Ashbnrton as manager of the Ashburton Electric Supply Company at its inception.

Our Mastertou correspondent telegraphs that the Rev. J. W. Russell, Congregational minister, formerly of Opunake, died at Masterton yesterday from the effects of influenza. He was a single man, aged 10 years. In a recent list of honours and awards • conferred on New Zealand soldiers ap- ' pears the name of the lato Private E, Jensen, of Picton, who was awarded the Military Medal. The deceased soldier was killed in actip on November 4. His next-of-kin is his father, Mr. M. Jensen, of Picto::i. I Mr. 0. E. Bowling, acting-registrar of the Supreme Court at Auckland, has "been appointed assistant solicitor to the Public Trust Olce. Ho will take up his new duties after the new year holidays. Mr. Herbert Bnrr, representing the Department of Tourist and Health Resorts, will leave for Auckland to-morrow. He -will travel with General Pau and the members of the French Mission on their tour through New Zealand. Mr. E. Phillips Turner, F.R.G.S., Chief Forest Officer, is to accompany Sir Francis Bell on an official trip through the „Rotorua district, and will be away from Wellington for about three weeks. To mark their appreciation of the unremitting services rendered by Dr. M'Pherson, of the Porirua Mental Hospital staff, the residents of Porirua, including the Maoris, presented him on Saturday with a gold watch and chain. In making the presentation the Rev. C. H. Earwnker spoke feelingly of the doctor's devotion to duty, and his unfailing courtesy to all. In thanking tho residents of Porirua, Dr. M'Pherson-referred' to the terrible times the country had passed through, and stressed the importance of Toeing prepared in case of a future visitation of the dreaded germ. He said he fished to thank the voluntary workers, especially the women, whoso conduct he considered was heroic. The following extra from the London Gazette of September 13 gives particulars of the gallant act in recognition of which the late Captain J. R. R. Leys (died of wounds received in action), of Wellington, was awarded the Military Cross:—"For conspicms gallantry and devotion to duty during an enemy at-, tack. He led his party forward and captured a machine-gun, which was causing heavy casualties, killing five of the enemy with his revolver. He showed fine courage and determination."

Among the soldiers who returned last week was llr. Frank Young, formerly of the ironmongery firm of Messrs\ Moncrieff and Young, and a member of the Wellington Choral Union.