PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 159, 31 March 1919, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS

■. —♦ —— TVice-Reqal.l _ Their Excellencies the Governor-Gen- / feral and the Countess <jf. Liverpool have ;• returned to Wellington from Christ- : church.. Accompanied By Mr. A. C: Day ! (Official Secretary) end Captains Garland i ■ and Milton, A.D.C.'s, they will leave for I ' Rotorua next Friday, and will remain j'. in the Hot Lakes district until April | -19, lvhen they will proceed to Auckland, and go into residence there for 6ome weelg.. Mr. Gavin Hamilton, Private Secretary, is at' present spending a holiday in Rotorua. Mr, Day will, remain ■'•in Wellington. Tjbe Hon. G. W, .Russell arrived from' the south yesterday. . The' City Engineer . (Mr. : W.. H,' Morton) is to be. entertained by tlie staff of the City Council in the Concert Chamber this evening, on the eve:of his departure for America and Europe.

Surgeon-Lieutenant Gl 3).' Macintosh, a , .Wellington: College old'Jjoy, is attached . Ito Lord Jellicoo's staff 'of ;H;M,S. New •Zealand. He was in the. Grand Fleet in the North Sea for over two. l and a-half years, and he is the-son of Mr. Alex. Macintosh, of .Wellington. , Lieutenant H. C. Fenton, of the Chrif-t- ---■ ehurch "Press" literary staff, who saw. a good deal of active service on the Western front-,, with -the Canterbury Regi-. . ment, left England for New: Zealand on March 10 by ihe 'Maheno... \ ■ ' Mr. A. C. Turnbull, Inspector of the . Lands and Survey'Department,'has: been appointed secretary to the Public Service Commission in succession' ..to Mr.; P. • iVergchatfelt, who i 9 taking< an important position in the Public Trust Office. Mr. '. Turnbull has been at the front for about ■three years, and has not yet returned; : ■ Mr. H. 6.-.Miller,- of Masterton, has been notified that lie has been sucoess--d'ul in .gaining the 8.A.; degree.' Mr. W. Flavell, lately manager of the WestpOrt Coal, Company's local branch, '. arrived in Wellington yesterday 'by the " Maori from the South Island. ■ ■ It is understood that Mr. A. P. Green, one of ■ the inspectors of the Bank of . New Zealand,' is. to succeed Mr. H. Biickleton as manager of the Auckland v branch,. when r the iatter becomes/general manager'early noxt year. Mr. Thomas - Mathews' has: been ap- . pointed managed and agricultural instruct , tor of the Queen Mary Instructional ■ ■Farm, Hanmer Springs. : Mt. Mathews . ivas-a Main Body man, and is an old boy of the Timatu High' School and an--' exetuden't of . Lincoln Agricultural College. Mr. Wilfred F. Stilwell, who was admitted liy Mr. Justice Cooper asa solicitor of tne. Supreme Court at Auckland ' ; on Thursday last, has been on active service for four years. He left New Zealand with'the Main Body,, and was present aij the landing on Gallipoli. While on the poninsula he wais given his commission.' ile was wounded at the first: battle of the Somme,' in 1916, antl was awarded the Military ..Cross. Ho . returned Zealand on: duty furlough in October, 191S, and the armistice intervening, was . demobilised.- . . ■■ '

Mr. Brinsden Fletcher, the new. editor of the ''Sydney Morning Herald," is a New Zealander, hiiving received his education «t, Thames and Auckland. Mr. N. Burnet Gadsby, of Te Kuiti, ■who has been studying nudicine at Aberdeen University, l has passed his final examinations. Previous .to going to Scotland to study, Dr. Gadsby was head prefect at Wellington College. During the war he put in ,over a year on. a warship' doing patrol work in the North Sea, and had many excitingf experiences, lor more than once the. man-of-war narrowly ' escaped destruction. Mr. W. R. Haig, for 37 years fitter in. the New Zealand railways, and 15' years in charge of the finishing bench at Addington 'Workshops, has been, appointed! instructor for the engineering classes at Wanganui Technical College; Mr. Haig' retired on superannuation about a year ego.'.' ■... ;■ :

Mr. A. C. A. Sexton, barrister and 60- . licitor, Auckland, received notification ..oil'Thursday from the University of New Zealand;that according, ,oabled .result? lie has passed~the.examination for the degree of .Master "oi Laws, obtaining second-class honours, and has been awarded the Senior University Scholarship in Law for. New Zealand. Mr.- Sexton was on active service with the New Zealand llitle Brigade, received a. captain's commission, but-had the misfortune to lose ■ 6 lc eLieutenant Hector Cameron ("Sc.otty"), who enlisted in the Auckland- Infantry and left. Now Zealand with the Main Body, has'had a very trying experience.' Ha had previously ■ seen service, in . the' South African War.. He took part in the Anzac landing , and served throughout'the Gallipoli campaign, going afterwards! to France. Hero he wa9 recommended for a commission, and passed the - necessary examinations in England. Atyer -lejoining in France- he was twice reported killedi but was after'a long period

of silfinco found to be .seriously wound- . Ed and ft prisoner of : war in Germany, He'is now with his relatives in Scotland, still very lame—he was wounded in both arms and legs—ana 6hows' signs of ' his dreadful experiences at the hands' of tho Huns. He was operated on four times, always without anaesthetics. The last time four men held him,-whilst a fifth probed for a picce of shell in the region of his heart. In response' to the'reques't of. the laTge deputation. of' ratepayers who recently waited upon him, Mr. F. H. Mather has definitely decided to. become a candidate for the Mayoralty of' Eastbourne. /• ; The death is amiouhced liy Press Association message from New Plymouth of "Mr. James .Baxter-Connett.'one of tho . most, prominent men in Taranaki, aged 76. Born and educated at Exeter, England, Mr. Connett went out to Queens- " land in 1865, and'.two years .later settled in Taranaki.,. Between 1871 and' 1874 he. sat infthe Taranaki Provincial Council, ' .and for-jsome years he. was, a. member of . . the New Plymouth Harbour Board, oc- ' ciipying the position of. chairman from ' 1902 until 1907. He also, sat in'the NewPlymouth Borough Council, and was connected with other local bodies-; , and various, joint stock, companies. His son ' contested the last Taranaki Parliamentary by-election./t