PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 92, 13 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon Sir James Allen, ActiagPrime Minister, returned from the Soutji Island yesterday.' Sir William Eraser, Minister of Public Works, returned from the South Island yesterday. . < The Hon. J. A. J-lanan returned from the South Island yesterday. LieiitenanK3olonel D. Colquhoun, D.5.0., Otago' Regiment, of Tapanui, South Otagij, who commanded a battalion of the Fourth Brigade, arrived in Wellington on Saturday by the Maunganui. He will leavo to-night for the south. Major Clive Sommervillo, recently awarded' the D.5.0., is the only sou o.f Mrs. E. Sommerville, Croydon School, Pay's Bay. He. was educated at Wauganui and Wellington Colleges, being an enthusiastic njember of the cadets. Later he joined the Wellington Navals with rank of lieutenant, rising after about live years' service to be I captain commanding the company, which rank he held until his civilian duties with Messrs. Dnlgety and Company took him out of Wellington. He volunteered at the outbreak of w»r, leaving with the Fifth Reinforcements' with tlie rank of captain in th? Wellington Mounted Rifles. After some time in Egypt he went to Gallipoli, je- : ni.lining ,t-he evacuation, being among tho last to leave. He then transferred to the N.Z. Field Artillery and weiit to France. He has been twice irentioned in dispatches, .and obtained his majority in February, .1917. With tlie exception of short leaves in "Blighty" he has been on duty with his battery in the field ever since. Lieutenant Edgar Garland (son of Mr. F. L. Garland, Oriental Bay), Royal Air Forco, who trained at the Auckland Flying School, and who was captured by the enemy whilst flying in France, has arrived in England, and is expected to be. returning to 'Wellington in the near future. Ho made four unsuccessful attempts to escape from Germany, but in a fifth attempt he succeeded 1 in getting safely away, arriving on neutral territory three days before tlie armistice was signed. . Captain J. W. Langridge, Canter, bury Regiment, who saw service in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France, returned to Wellington on Saturday. On /Saturday Mr; John H- Scott, who has been a. member of the advertising stiff of The Dominion for many years and who is retiring on account of illheaith, was the recipient of a well-fitted smoking cabinet from his colleagues in tlie commercial department of the office. The manager (Mr. A.Snndo) made the presentation, and Mr. Scott feelingly responded. Lieutenant K. G. Smith, of Pahiatua, returned to W<&lington on .Saturday by the Maungaiiui. Captain J. 0. Veiteli, N.Z.M.C., of Norsewood, was among those who returned from the front on Saturday. Captain White. M.C-, of Eketahuna, arrived Jjy the Maunganui on Saturday from 'Enngland. ■ Mr. E. G. Bender, who has been serving with the Dental Corps at Featlierston, sailed last month for England, he being one of the dentists seiit to England to hell) with the dental work during demobilisation) He hopes to return at the end of- the year and take up his work at the Wellington Dental Hospital. ' Advice hps been received that Serr gejjnt "Pair" Toojiill, of Wellington, who left with, the Seventh Reinforce? meats, is making a very speedy recovery from tlie wounds he received in France early in October of last year, and is expected to leavo for New Zealand at an early date, Chief Detective T. Bpddam, of Wellington, is at'present spending.'a.'few days on holiday. In his absence his duties 'irr being carried out by Detective-Sergeant Cos.

The llev. E. Palgrave Davy, superintendent of the New Zealand Children's Mission, has returned to 'Welling* ton after a visit to Nelson.