PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 96, 17 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A cable message from London states that Sir Andrew AYeir becomes Baron Inverforlh. i

Amongst the officers who are to arrive in New Zealand shortly in returning draft No. 208 is Captain Arthur E. T. Rhodes, of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, step-son of the late Lieuton-ant-Colonel C. E. Thomas, V.D.,who was killed on Gallipoli. Captain Rhodes left New Zealand with the Main Body as a corporal in the Bth (South Canterbury) Squadron of the Canterbury Mounted Regiment, and won a commission in the field on Gallipoli. Subsequently he was aide-de-camp to Major-Gencrnl Sir E. W. C. Chaytor, General Officer Commanding the N.Z.E.F. in Egypt, and later he was Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General at Administrative Headquarters in Egypt.

A Press Association telegram from Duncdin states that General Pau is improving in health, and hopes to leave for the north to-morrow morning.

It is stated in this week's Gazetto that Dr. H. W. M. Kendall has been appointed to be Port Health Officer for Wellington, vice the late Dr. Henry Pollen.

News has been received in Dunedin that Major Randall Woodhouso, formerly house surgeon at the AVellington Public Hospital, has been awarded a second bar to the Military Cross that he gained in 1916, the first bar having been awarded a year ago: Major Woodhouse, who is an old Otagb High School boy, and a graduate of Otago University, has been on active service in Franco throughout the whole period of the war. He joiued the R.A.M.C. in London, whero he was preparing to sit for his F.R.C.S., crossing to Franco in the middle of August, 1914, and was with a field ambulance, following up the retreating Germans, when the armistice' was signed. He has been threo tiroes wounded and once slightly gassed.

A Press Association message from Christchnrch states that. Mr. W. H. Skinner, Commissioner of Crown Lauds for Canterbury, has sent in his resignation, to take ,'effect from the beginning of April. He has had an unbroken service in the Lands Department since 1872.

• Mr, Austin Seely has been appointed agent of the Public Trust Office at Kaikoura. •.

Mr. Alex. Peebles, one of the oldest' settlers of Hawke's Bay, is dead. Deceased, who was in his 75th year, arrived at Napier in the sailing vessel Rangoon.. He conducted a big carrying busineus at Palmerston and Woodville, before the railway was constructed through the Gorge. In later'years he took up farming in Woodville. Ho leaves a family of four daughters and three sons, as well as numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Lieutenant Balfour Dawson, son of Mrs. B. Dawson, of Masterton, is in hospital at Malta.

Captain H. B. T. Hawkins, R.A.F., recently awarded the Italian bronze medal for Military Valour, was at one time a resident of Wellington.

Major A. S. Brewis, 0.8. E., of Hamilton, who has returned from the front, has been appointed commandant of the Hanmor Springs Sanatorium.

Mr. W. J. M'Kay, chief dispatch clerk in the Dunedin Telegraph' Office for many years, has been promoted to the Wellington office.' Mr. Thomas; of the Wellington office, will succeed Mr. M'Kay.

Colonel C. M. Begg, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.P., who has been appointed to succeed General Henderson, left New Zealand with the. Main Body in command of the Field Ambulance, and went through the Gallipoli campaign from the landing to the evacuation, with the exception of a. short period while invalided with shell shock. When Colonel Maunder (of the. Imperial Army), who was A.D.M.S. of-the New Zealand Division, was killed Colonel Begg was promoted to take his place. For distinguished service on Gallipoli he received the C.M.G., and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh bestowed a Fellowship on him in recognition of his work in that campaign. He went to France with tho New Zealanders, and has been there continually ever since. After the Sonnno battles lie w : as again promoted, and became D.D.M.S. of the-2nd Anzac Army Corps. When the Australian and New Zealand forces were separated, Colonel Begg was appointed D.D.M.S. of the 22nd British Army Corps (to which the New Zealand Division was attached), being the only civilian D.D.M.S , of a British army corps. lir the second Battle of the Marno. in. July last, ho was senior medical officer with the British forces engaged there, and of two French divisions as well. He has been several times mentioned in dispatches, and a year ago received the C.B. Colonel Begg is a son of tho late Mr. A. C. Begg, of Dnnedin.

A well-known figure on the Auckland waterfront in bygone days died on January 13, namely, Mr. James Baird. Deceased was born in Scotland 86 years ago, and was a shipwright. He arrived in Auckland in November, 1859, in the ship Shooting Star.

The Rev. G. B. Inglis, of Mount Albert, has been elected Moderator of the Auckland Presbytery.

Mi*. J. Williams, formerly Jlaior Williams, stationed at AshbuP 1 ton, and for a considerable time em» ployed in the Records Office-at Trentham, has been appointed l secretary and accountant to tne Nelson Co-oper-ative Fruit Company.

Captain and Mrs. Fraser, who have been in charge of the Salvation Army for twelve months past, havo been appointed to the Christchurch City Corps. v

Jlr. S. Hamilton, inspector of permanent ways in South Otago, with headquarters at Milton, during the past thirteen years, has left to take a similar position on the railway at Oaraaru. Prior to leaving Milton he was presented at a social with a suitcase and purse of sovereigns from the employees of the permanent way and traffic departments" Jlr. Lonie, from Central Otago, will succeed Mr. Hamilton.

Jlr. A. Dicker, of the Chmtchurch office of the Department of Agriculture, in which he has been asvistant-uelds instructor, has been promoted to a position at the Department's central, experimental farm at Levin.

Jlr. H. A. Knight has been re-elect-ed chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural, College, Lincoln. ''....

Jlr. John Robertson, school inspector of Otago, who enlisted three years ago as a private, and on reaching Egypt volunteered for the Camel Corps, has been appointed Assistant Director of Education at Cairo, with the rank of major.

The Rev. Robert Barr, minister in charge of the Presbyterian Church, Waiuku, has retired on account of illhealth. At a sitting of the Presbytery, the resignation was accepted with regret, as from the end of January.* Jlr. Barr has done 28 years' faithful work, and the Presbytery decided to recommend the General Assembly to admit him as minister emeritus.

Mr. George Coghill has been appointed to succeed Mr. E. H. Lawford as mauager of tho Darinevirke branch of the Union Bank of Australia, otvi'ig to the latter's transfer to Gisborne to take over the managership there. Air. Coghill was relieving manager at Dannevirke some time ago during . six months Mr. Lawford was relieving at Tiniaru.

At the meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Architects yesterday the president (Mr.- C. Lawrence) extended a hearty welcome to Mr. Morris Jones, of Blenheim, who recently returned from the front wounded in the right arm. Mr. Lawrence said they were, all very glad to see-Mr. Jones back again, and hoped he would, soon recover his health.. Mr. H. C. Williams, who has been the custodian of the Art Gallery for the past thirty-seven years,-and who celebrated his eighty-first birthday on Wednesday, was yesterday made the recipient of a presentation by the New Zealand Institute of Architects, in recognition of kindly services rendered.

Mr. C. R. Muurq moved at the Teachers' Conference yesterday that on the retirement of Mr. William Davidson from the position of. editor of, the "Journal of Education," 1 tho institute place on .record its warm appreciation of the services to the causo' of national education rendered by him both' in his capacity as a member of the institute and in his capacityas a citizen. 'Mr. Munro suggested, further, that the instiute vote a sum of fifty guineas to Mr. Davidson, in recognition of his services over twenty years. Mr. W. Endey seconded the proposal, and spoke in glowing terms of, the gentleman who was to be honoured by the passing of the resolution. l ■ Mr. Erskine, the chairman of the. gathering, lent his hearty support to tho motion, and it was carried by acclamation. .

■ A motion in the. following terms, proposed, by Mr. F. A...Garry, was carried by acclamation,at the Teachers' Conference at its final session yesterday:—"That this' meeting, on 'behalf of the teachers of New Zealand, records ita appreciation of the services of Mr. E. tJ. Just as organising secretary in tho cause of education, and heartily compliments ■him on the tactfnl and forceful way in which ho has .sot on foot educational •'propaganda among the, people of Now Zealand."

Major Geoffrey Armstrong Buddie. Imperial Army, who has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order, is the second son of Mr. C. P. Buddie, who tor. of Auckland. JMajbr.Huddle, who holds two other decorations, is 81 ywru of age, and an old boy of the Auckland Grammar School. After a period ill the employ of Mr. Preston Chambers, surveyor, he went to San Francisco, and took a courso in'science and engineering nt tho University of California, gaming the B.Sc. dcgre-3. lie proceeded to England, where lie was engaged upon civil engineering work when the war broke out ;F» prompt- ■ IS' secured a commission in the. Koyal Engineers, and was sent to Gallipoli.' For services there lie was awarded the Serbian Order of the White, Eagle. Later he was sent to Fiance, and shortly afterwards received the Military Cross. He has been twice gassed, but otherwise has come through unharmed.

Mr. .William Martin Heywood, son of Mr; J. B. Heywood, formerly Secretary to the New Zealand Treasury, died suddenly in Sydney recently. Deceased, who was 62 years of age, was at one time connected with the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's branch in Wellington. ' .

Tho death of- Mr. Alexander Scott, inspector of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, due to complications supervening upon mllucnza, has removed one of the best linov/n figures iii the stock and station agency business in the South Island. His.father, the late Mr. Lewis Scott, was an early settlor on tho W,aitohi,, and on his father's farm Mr. Alexander Scott was trained prior to his entrances into commercial life. In 1899 he was appointed stock- auctioneer to the National Mortgage and Agency Company in Timaru, and he retained this 'position until 1917, when he was transferred to the head office in Dunedin.