PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. W. IT. ITerries, Minister of Railways, returned to Wellington yesterday after a visit to the northern districts. . . ■

Mi;. A. M. Adams, chief executive officer,' Munitions and Supplies Department, left for Christchurch on Thursday, night on departmental business.

A Press Association message from London states that Mr. Clutlia, Mackenzie, son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner, is"coming to New Zealand on the battle-cruiser New Zealand a's "a, guest of Admiral Lord Jellicoe.

Councillor C. B. Norwood, chairman of tho' Milk Committee, returned from Auckland by the' Main Trunk express yesterday.

Captain Christopher Musgrave, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Musgrave, of Christchurch, has.been awarded the Air Force Cross. .' Captain Musgrave left New Zealand with the Main Body, as a private. - He was wounded at Galiipoli, and was invalided to New Zealand'suffering' from enteric. In April, 1916, lie was discharged. On liecoming. convalescent lie went HoimS and joined the Flying Force, and served for seven or eight months at the front in France. .During the past year he lias l>cen second in command of the Aerial. Fighting School at Hcliopolis. .

••Yesterday/Mr; U. .H. Stephens - was presented tiy the Wellington Coal Trade Committee • with ft cigar tnd cigarette holder as a small tokeh of their esteem on his leaving the secretaryship of tho committee to resumoduty with (he RaiU way Department." In making tho' pre. sen'tation, Mr. F. J. Gunn, chairman of tho committee, commented on the good work pcirfotmcd l)y Mr. Stephens, and wished.! him good luck and prosperity. Mr. Roy K. Johnston, of the-Munitions and Supplies" Department, lias token over the.duties as secretary to-the conlnlittec.". V ...''

Mr. W. Barrington "Millar, one of the lenders of the moving picture business ill Australia, is at present in. Wellington on a. holiday-visit:- Mr. Miller's health broke, down a-month ago,.-an<lhe-came to• his 1 native country to : -recruit.;,/,Ho leaves for America by; tho; Niagara at -'the end of nest month.

. Mr. VHan>J(L.Gregspn has, been selected as judge of tlie music.and focal sections at.Hip Chrwtchuj'li'' competitions, -com.mcncing' on' May i. The judge of elocution will be Ma'.'John. Hopkins, of Melbourne, ...'

-Corporal.Harry Kirkwood, .of Welling-ton,-returned-from, the front yesterday by the- Xialandic. ■ Corporal. Kirkwood first saw service at.Samoa', aridjater proceeded to Gallipqli with the .Fifth -Reinforcements,. where he was wounded, . -He subsequently proceeded, to England and then '.vent, to. Corporal:.Kirkwood -was a swimming enthusiast of v some distinction. -•

Among the men who returned lo New \Zeiiland by the ■ Zeal.iiidic- was Gunner Allan Cohen, son of - Mrr; -Maurice Cohen, of Palmerston-North;.-- ;He. is-. differing from paralysis of the left arm,-the result : of nervous .shock sustained in action.. Gunner Cohen was through the I'asscliendaclo action ■. and- subsequent operations with the New Zealonders, and paralysis developed when he; was visiting ■London. - ■ ■■•■•. •: • ■■■•■•■„•-

: Mr.' 1 ■ ""William Jessen, J.P., of 40 Kent Terrace, ; has received ■' word' that his second 6oni Gunner'Duiald Jessen, of tilth Battery, N.Z.8.F., dietfat Endell Street, Military Hospital/.' London, • on ■February 23. ' The deceased soldier) who hvas 23 years of age, went away with the Tenth Reinforcement, and■' was oil Uctive service in France -fill after the"atmistice ; Prior to going into camp he was oil tn» staff of-Macky, Logan, Caldwell; and Co., of this city, for five years. Death was the result of pneumonia following an attack of. influenza. His elder brother Guv ner Johil • Jessen,- was'-lcilled m action la France on August.2i last.

Mr. James Gilmour, manufacturer for the British Empire .Trading' Company, has been appointed by tlio New Zealand Tobacco Company, Ltd., of ■ Napier, to the position'of chief manufacturer, and will also supervise the growing of tobacco by farmers tnroughout the Dominion. .... / '.

; Out of twenty-two applicants/ the Wnngauui Fire Board has appointed. Mr, John Williams, formerly deputy-superin-tendent at Auckland, , euperintendspt of the Wanganui iFire .Brigade.—Press • Mr. Alexander Wilson, who died at" Ills residence in Constalde Street on Thursday in his 91st year, was born near Craigmi'ller Castle, Scotland, on January' 25, 1828, and came out to Melbourne in 185 i- He came to "Wellington in 1855 nnd was: employed in the building trade here, for, sonle time, ani tlieii ondned • a • grocery business at the, corner of Kiddiford and Constable. Streets, v.liich,' Rafter , some years, was taken over by his son Alexander. Since then te'l.ns lived a'retired life. 1 Mi-. Wilson at. one; tii£6, took• an active part, in' local 'affairs. In" September, 1883, ;he entered the City Council and sat for three years.. He 'w?.s one of 'the founders of St. James's.Presbyterian Church, and member of the first committee elected in connection with State School, and -had-been connected with the Loyal Antipodean Lodge of Oddfellows since its.foundation, 'occupying at different times all the chairs. The familv consists of four sons (Mr. William "Wilson, of Miramar; Mr. Alex. Wilson, grocer,• Constable-Street; -"-Mr,. John Wilson, foreman for Messrs. Isaac Clark and Son; aiid Mr. Thomas Wilson* engineer, Hawke's Bay), and three daughters. one of whom js Mrs; Jostph Webb, of Wellington.

Particulars of the death- in action of the late Rev. .G. S. Bryan-Blown, Chaplain of Christ's College, as given in a tetter from Father Bartley, .were " wade public by the headmaster of the college (Mr; G. E.- Blanch) at tliQ prize-giving ceremony on Wednesday evening.: Father Hartley told how Mr. Bryan-Brown had gone out of a regimental post which had been established in an old stone building close to the.firing, line,.to put up shutters to keep fragments' of bursting shells from entering the windows and injuring the wounded. : A soldter who saw liipi come out, nnd who recognised liim, said that he was serving,.-out water to - some exhausted German prisoners who had jiibt been brought in, when the shell killed him,* "Few will fair to feel," said Mr, Blanch, "the glamour which this act adds 'to our idea of him—an act whioli . cjills to mind at once the knightly Sir Philip/ Sidney and our Lord's it tiiy enemy thirst, give 'hiin drink. Advice has been received by Mr: C; H. Smith, of Sumner, that his son, ..Bom-' hardier Harold'Percival Smith, has been awarded the Military Medal., He is an. old' boy of Christcliurch Boys High School, and a member of the Christchurch .Sailing Club. He left 111 tlw early stages of the war, and had a most, interesting career in France, where ho took part in a lot of heavy fighting, find was present nt Xe. Quesnoy. v i He is now with the division in Germany.