PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 118, 12 February 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

♦— —— 3 The Hon. G. W. Eussell is leaving dt a midday for Wanganui, to attend a con« ference of local bodies there which has been convened for the purpose of con--1 sidenng what steps ought to be taken by i local authorities in the event of another < outbreak-of acute influenza, j. Cabled advice has been received ill . We lington that Brigadier-General G. S. Richardson, accompanied by Mrs. Eich-, j ardson and her family, will leave London . by the Kemuera on February 2.3. en route to New Zealand. ■' They should e arrive early in April. t The secretary of the Masterton Eo- . patriation Committee is Mr. H. D. M'ln- ■ H ,B , ,1, , The . uumo W! >s misspelt in the r list of appointments published yesterday. r Lieutenant William Grace, of Welling. ■> ton, well-known a few years back as a I representative footballer, has returned ? gal ."n ,■ AVelllD Kt<"i- Lieutenant Grace is still limping, and run down in health B as the result of a, rather ghastly exnerit ence at tho front. He headed a raid 1 & , / tllß , enem l'' s Posts in Eossignol { Wood (on the Western front), and got . within a few yards of a perfectlyB camouflaged post when the Hun'sentry spotted the lieutenant and his two men, t and began to let fly at them with rifles f and stick-bombs. One of the men was j lulled outright, and Lieutenant Grace s was severely wounded in the legs as the r effect of the bursting etick-boinbs. So j injured they could not rush the outpost , -the usual thing to.-do-«o. tlu third s man helped Lieutenant-Grace back to , the lines-a quarter of a mile away. As B the result of noxious dirt getting into - ; , wound—the whole of the ground was foul with gas—Lieutenant Grace- was _ troubled with "gas gangrene," and his condition was very critical for a time. '- Major J. Osburne-Lilly, Director of > Personal Services, Defence Headquarters, . is retiring at the end of the month,' i when he will leave for Auckland to enter x into practice there' as a barrister and s solicitor. Major Osburne-Lilly has been engaged with the Defence Department since August, 19U, first as group commander at Napier, next as group 1 commander at Masterton, and then as 1 Assistant Adjutant-General at General -. Headquarters, Wellington. In Febru- • ary, 1917, he was appointed Director of • Personal Services. Prior to August,, [ 1914, Major Osburne-Lilly had been in c practice in his profession at Pahiatua/ ' for U years, but having given his whole ■ time to war work, he disposed of hie I practice at the beginning of 1918. Ho, 1 ' has now.decided to commence afresh air ■ Auckland. ( Mr. B. Eawson, S.M., is seriously ill,' . and is, not expected to be able to rej sume duty for three or four months, s Mr. F. Cooper, who has been secretary, ) to Mr. J. A. Frostick, National Efficiency ! Commissioner for Canterbury, eince the I National Efficiency Board was appointed ) two years ago, has completed his work ia 3 that position. On March Ihe will re- . sume his duties as secretary to the Canterbury Employers' Association, a posi- , tion he relinquished temporarily to take 1 up tho efficiency work. Lieutenant F. Leslie Murray, M.C., formerly well known' in Christchurch, > but now resident in Hillersden, Marl- . borough, arrived home last week, ijw ) valided from Palestine. He was award- ! Ed the. Military Cross for devotion to duty and conspicuous gallantry in lead- . ing his troops in the advance on Es-salt, [ on September 23, 1918, capturing two ) machine-guns and 200 prisoners. Mr. George M'Leod, manager of the 1 Union ,B(mk of Australia at Hamilton ' for the paet thirteen years, has been, transferred to Wanganui. ! Mr. William Timpany, who died at 1 Invercargill last week, was a well-known. . Southland sawmiller. and founder of the Bawmiling firm of Timpany Bros. , Hβ was a prominent Freemason, occupying the position of Provincial Grand Master from 1913 to 1915, and was at one time . president of the Southland Caledonian. Society. Two of his sons were members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, one leaving with the main body. • Trooper A. P. L. Langdon, son of Mr. E. L. Langdon, of Wai-iti, Masterton, • who arrival at Wellington on February 1, returned to his home last week,' Trooper Langdon was with the 2nd New Zealand Mounted Machine-Gun Squadron attached to the Australian Cavalry during the lissJ; days uf . the • fighting in Palestine. He contracted Malaria, and was invalided home.