PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 169, 11 April 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Colonel C. M. Gibbon. 0.M.G.. 1.G.5., Chief of the Goneral .Staff. left by tho Main Trunk yesterday for the purpose of paying his farewell visit of inspection to the Auckland Military District. He vas accompanied by Mrs. Gibbon. Colonel Gibbon will return to AVellington on Thursday next.

Lieutenant-Colonel C. G. F. Morice, Beservo of Officer?, 12th (Nelson and Marlborough) Regiment. has been awardel the New Zealand Military Forces lons and efficient service modal, having a total servico to his credit.of J!) years 341 days. The decoration was conferred on Colonel Morice by Mnjor-General Sir A. W. Robin, General Officer Commanding the Forces, at Defence Headquarters on Wednesday.

Sergeant M. J. O'Halloran (M.M.), vho is returning on the Willociira, left New Zealand with his younger brother, Ous O'Hrdloran, with"the Twenty-eighth Reinforcements. His brother was killed in action at Bapaunie oil August 24, 1318, and is buried in Loupnrt Wood. Sergeo.it O'Hnlloran earned .his Military Medal shortly after, in the Battle of Le 'Juesnoy. Prior to his going into camp he was connected with the Government Printing Office.

Captain T. C. A. Hislop, who will arrive back in New Zealand by the Maheno on April 23, is the son of the Hon. T. W. Hislop anda brother of Dr. Hislop, of Wellington. Captain Hislop, who is a solicitor by profession, was a member ot the Wellington City Council from April, 1913, to April, 1915, when he joined up with the forces, seeing- a good deal ot action before he was seized with illn?*s. At the latest report he was well on the way to recovery.

Among the .visitors to Wellington is M.\ John Fraser, son of the late Captain Fraser (formerly of Roxburgh Street). Mr. Fraser, who was in the head office ot the Railway Department, weut to South Africa at the time of the Boer War. and subsequently settled in Johannesburg, where lie was a member of the Stock Fxehange. Early in the war he '-ent Home and secured a commission in tlio Imperial Army, and after demobilisation steamers to South Africa were not numerous, so he decided to look up once move the place of his birth. Tliis is Mr. Fraser's first visit to Wellington since 1001.

At the meeting of the Dunedin Edusa. fion board 011 Tuesday a letter was rend from General Richardson, G.0.C., N.Z.Ii.P,. in the United Kingdom, paying a high tribute to the work done by Mr. Horace. Fawcett in connection with the education scheme i'or soldiers. Ill', Fawcett, who was secretary of the Y.M.C.A. recreation hut at the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital at Hornchureb, undertook the organisation of the classes for soldiers on their inception, and it was largely owing to his efforts that they had the Success which they achieved. General liiehardson added in his letter that Lord Milner, on a visit to the Convalescent Hospital, had expressed surprise at Iho excellence of tho educational work that was being done, and regret that somethin" similar was not being done in tile Imperial Army. Before the war Mr Fawcett was ft master at tho Maori 3- ill School.

Mr. Frank Charlton. Ihe well-known Wellington baritone, intend* to leave hern for Sydney next week for the purpose of tcsliii" his laloiit' on the professional ,«lii"L> Tn Australia. Mr. Horace Gardiner, ilm'sift'leur, who camc out to Now Zenlimd a few months ago in connection with his mother's death, will travel to Australia with Mr. Charlton.