PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 142, 11 March 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Walter Buchanan, M.L.C., who is one of the founders of The Dominion, was entertained by his co-directors of tho Wellington Publishing Company last evening in connection with his coming visit to. Great Britain. -Mr. James Macintosh, chairman of directors, on behalf of the company, referred in highly np-, preciativo terms to Sir Walter Bu-'i chanau's many services, and wished him a pleasant voyage and a safe return. Word has been received by Mrs. E. Wilson, of 119 Glmznce Street, that her son, Mr. A. Wilson, has arrived at quarantine in Melbourne, after hnving been for four years a prisoner of war in Turkey. Mr. Wilson, who is a native of Oamaru, was originally a member of the crew of British submarine E7, but was transferred to E2, which was cap. tured by the Turks in tho Sea of Marmora. Another son of Mrs. Wilson, Private' Walter Wilson, Seventh Reinforcements, was killed at Messines, and yet another eon, Gmvnor .Tames Wilson, who joined the Australian Artillery at Brisbane, has been wounded, but his whereabouts is not at present known. A.mong tho Wellington men' who returned by the transport Port Melbourne was Sergeant A. G. Marshall, son of Mr. John Marshall, of Worser Bay. Sergeant Marshall went away with the Fourth Reinforcements, and was wounded in two places by shrapnel at Solesmes (in France), after coming scnthlcss through tho Gallipoli campaign. Before the war Sergeant Marshall was engaged in farming pursuits in the Horowhonua district. Mr. Donald Munro, who came to New Zealand from Ross-shire in 1862, died recently all Timaru at the age of 77. For some years past he had been farming in South Canterbury. Ho leaves four sons and two daughters. , Mr. H. S. Hart, who is leaving shortly on a trip to America and England, was yesterday granted leave of absence from the Council of the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce. :