PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 259, 29 July 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Pres.? Association cablegram from London states that tho French',Croix do Guerre has been awarded to SergeantMaior W. A. Levick, a New Zealander.

Acting on medical advice tho Public Trustee (Mr. Robert Triggs) lias left for Sydney by tho s.s. Briton ou a short holiday.

Dr. Hugh Steele, of Wellington, returned to New Zealand in charge of the medical 'department of tho troopship Runpehu. Dr. Steele has been away at the front for about fifteen months, and was oil tho surgical stuff of No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital, Walton, and was also at the front. He was with tho Army of Occupation at Cologne.

Lieutenant (Dr.) Gordon Gunn, ;D.D.S., Pennsylvania, U.S.A., L.D.S., London, is expected to arrive in New Zealand by the TJlimaroal Lieutenant Gunn was for three years in the Dental Corps in Egypt, and was in the Transylvania, when sho was torpedoed off tho coast of Italy. Before he ioined up with the New Zealanders ho was in practice in Hanover Square, London. It is ten years sinco Lieutenant Gunn left the Dominion for the University. and as he joined tho New Zealand Expeditionary Force in London he has not seen New Zealand since ho left. Dr. Elizabeth Gunn is a sister of Lieutenant Gunn.

Liout.-Col. R. St. J. Beere, D.5.0., with his wife and little son. was to leave England in the Tainui on July 20 for Wellington.

Mr. S. S. Williims, of Grass Street, Oriental Bay, has been advised by cablegram that his son. Paymaster-Captain A. G. Williams, is to leave Egypt for England on August 2, and topes to return to New Zealand in November. . .

Mai or A. B. Sandford and Dr. R. B. Stephenson wero passengers for Sydney bv tho Briton, which sailed on Sunday.

Mr. J. Langridgo,, curator of the Wellington Zoo, accompanied by his wife, loft on a holiday trip to Australia by the Briton on Sunday.

Notification of lhe award of tho American Distinguished Service Medal to Briga-dier-General W. L. H. Burgess, C.8., C.M.G.. D.5.0., hati been received by his mother, Jlrs. (ieoVge Burgess, of Papakura.. Auckland. General Burgess, although associated with tho Australian Imperial Forces sinco tho outbreak- of war. was at that time an Auckland staff officer, stationed temporarily at Hobart under the system t f exchange of officers then in operation. Ho served through tho Gallipoli campaign with great distinction, and for his later service in France was also awarded tho decoration of tho Cross of the Legion of Honour. He left England by tho Orsova on July 16.

Mr. Tru Henare, M.P, for the Northern Maori electorate, who for the past seven weeks litis been an inmato of tho Kn'wakawa hospital, following 011 a severo attack of typhoid fever, was sufficiently recovered to leave (lio hospital last Wednesday. He will probably rceuperato at Itusseil for a month beforo undertaking political duties.

Tho funeral of tho lato Mr. W. C. Hampton took place at lvarori Cemetery 011 Saturday afternoon. Tho Institute 01" Marine Engineers was represented, tho pall-bearers being Messrs. J. Rankine (president of the institute), F. Wallis, Calnati. and T. I?. AVnllace (secretary). For many years the Into Mr. Hampton was associated with Ihe institute after retiring from the sea, and for a considerable time held tho position of treasurer. He was formerly an engineer 011 vessels trading 011 tho New Zealand coast, and was about iifteen years ago lintoype engineer at the "Evening Post" office. On retiring from that position Mr. Hampton took up business in Wellington.