PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Captain B. F. Aldred, N.Z.M.C, formerly house surgeon at Wellington Hospital, returned from England yesterday. Many in Wellington will regret to lenrn (hat Lieutenant William Perry (of the legal firm of l'erry, Gill, and Linklater line lost his right arm, as the result of a severe wound in the shoulder. He was unfortunate enough to be severely wounded during the closing scenes of (lie wnr, and though every endeavour was made to save the shattered member, gangrene set in, and it became necessary to amputate at the shoulder in order to save the officer's life. Lieutenant: Perry is one of the best known of the younger lawyers in Wellington. He graduated from St. Patrick's College to the Victoria College, at which seat of learning ho was a contemporary of Ihe Inte Mr. K. J.' Fitzgibbons and of Mr. H. F. O'Leary. He has alway.s taken a lively interest in liugby football, nnd was a member of the Wellington Rugby Union. Ho wns also a member of the Eastbourne tforough Council. Lieutenant Perry is understood to lie making a satisfactory recovery, but the date of. his departure from England has not yet been determined. Lieutenant L. Tatton, R.F.C., of Neleon, is a passenger by the Marama, which is due at Wellington to-day. Lieutenant Tatton left with the New Zealand infantry, and afterwards joined the Flying Corps. After qualifying as n pilot he was eent to Palestine, and was one of a squadron engaged in bombing Aleppo and important railway junctions during' General Allenby's final push against the Turks. He was invalided to England in about October last. Mr. Robert Hannah returned yesterday from Auckland, where he had been to meet his son, Major R'. Hannah, D.5.0., M.C, Lieutenant A. T. Duncan, who before the war was well known as a leading amateur sprinter, is to return to Wellington by the Marama to-day. Lieutenant Duncan was badly wounded by a shell in December, 1917. Captain S. Nicolson, the only officer of the New Zealand Dental Corps to be wounded during the war, is on his way to Dunedin by the hospital ship Marama. Sergeant A. A. Donaldson, formerly a Wellington representative footballer, is among the cot cases on the Marama. Private- E. S. Andrews, Otago Regiment, eldest son of Detective Andrews, of Wellington, will arrive in Wellington ! to-day. He returned' from the front by | the liner Briton, which arrived at Lyt- j telton yesterday. . • | Mr. Lyndon Clement Hemery was yes- j terday admitted by the Chief Jusiice j a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme ; Court. 'He application, was made by Mr. G. Watson. I Mr. H. A. Parkinson,, headmaster of the Newtonn School for some years past, has tendered l\is resignation from the service of the Wellington Education Department, retiring on , superannuation. Mr. Parkinson was recently, appointed ficrefary of the New Zealand Educational Institute. Messrs. W. C. Crane and H. M. Field, of Wellington,' will be passengers for San Francisco by the Moana, which is to leave here to-day. Captain G. W. Morice, a nephew- of Mr. J. It. Morice, Assistant City Engineer, arrived in Lyttelton. fro'n England by the transport Briton yesterdiy. Captain Morice, who was on the teaching p.taff of Wellington College whan ho enlisted, wss severely wounded in France. He was sheltering in a shall-hbole when r. hand grenade landed in the hole. Captain Morice. sustained no fewer Uian fourteen wounds, and has undergone considerable hospital treatment in England. Among the soldiers to return to New Zealand this week are several men- who were taken prisoner on Gallipoli early in the war arid had been held in durance in ■ Turkey evor since—for over three years. Among them is Private Archibald Murray Morice, of'Opotiki, who enlisted early in the war and wen: forwsrd to Galiipoli in February, 1915. Lieutenant T. IT. Noble Boaeley, who up to the time he. voluateeretl for service was a'member of the Dominion literary staff, and who returned to New Zealand by the hospital ship Mnrama, arrived in' Wellington by yesterday's express. Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Powles, of Wellington, who had been serf ing in Palestine and Egypt for four years, was transferred to France in October <ast, and served only about a fortnight there when the armistice was signed. He is. now undergoing a staff training .course at Keys College, Cambridge. Major Holderness, of the Mounted Division, is also taking the course. This probably will mean that these officers will Inter on 'be attached to the New Zealand Staff. Lieu-tenant-Colonel Powles, who has swved with distinction with the New Zealand mounted men in Palestine under Ma]orGeneral Chaytor. left Palestine just prior to General Allenby's bi? -ound-up of the Turkish Army, an achievement which brought Turkey to her knees, nnd he write* that it is one of his regrets that he could not participate in the great event. . ■ . •■ At a meeting of the Management Committee of the Wellington Rugby Union ■held last evening the chairman (Mr. Jr. Howe) made reference to the loss the union had sustained in the death ot their late chairman, Mr. D. D. Weir. 'Mr. Howe said that the late Mr. Weir was (he greatest Hngby enthusiast in New Zealand, and Rugby football had lost a great champion of the game. A resolution of appreciation of the late Mr. Weir's services was placed on record, and it was ,also decided to convey 'the union's deepest sympathy to his relatives.