PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir James Mills has been appointed to the- Board of Directors of the National Mortgage and Agency Company. Mr William Blythe Beeves, who died at his residence, Willowbank, .Lower Hutt, on Sunday, after a long illness, was the third son of the late Mr. Edward Reeves, a Wellington nierohant, and was born in this city, completing lis education at Wellington Cot ege. lor some years before his death he was in the real estate business le has lcit a widow (a daughter of the la e Mr. Llovri A. Williams, manager in Wellington for Messrs. Sargood, Son, and Ewen) and two children. For some years he was a vice-president of Ihe Oriental lootball Club.'

\mong those who returned by the transport Willochra yesterday was Captain M. Horton (of the Army Service Corps), who was formerly trafho manager for the Union Steam Ship Company at Wellington. Dr Gilmer, who underwent an operation'in the Bowen Street Hospital on Saturday, and who has been very ill from influenza, is reported to be a little better. Mr. and Mrs. James Burnett, of Moana Bond, Kelburn, with their two daughters, and son-in-law, Mr. Esmond Altonson, are returning from England by the Arnwn, and they should arrive about the middle of next month, having been away over three years and a half. Servant Charles Riddell, formerly of Mnngatainoka and Pahiatua, who was severely wounded at the front a considerable time ago, has died at an infirmary in Edinburgh. According to a. cable message received by Mrs. A. W. Andrew (Cashmere Hills), h'ev husband, Brigadier-General A. W. Andrew, C.M.G.. is returning to New Zealand shortly from Mesopotamia, states u southern exchange. Lieut.-Colouel Rawdon St. J. Boere, writing from England under date l'ebruary 23, states that after returning from Germany ho was on holiday at Torquay when he received orders to report atonce at Sling Camp for duty as second in command to General Stewart. Lieut.. Colonel Beere expected to be leaving for Now Zealand in May or June.