PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 152, 23 March 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

Sir Henry Sammon, a leading Hull shipowner, arrived in Auckland 1 recently By the Riverina from Sydney. Sir Henry Sammon, who is on a pleasure trip, intends spending some time trout fishing in the Taupo district. Captain W. I.* K. Jennings, D. 5.0., formerly of Christchurch, has been appointed offiqgr commanding No. 5 Group, Wellington.

Mr. J. R. Palmer, Town Clerk, who has been on a holiday visit to Sydney, will leave there for Wellington to-mor-row.

Messrs. P. Keesing and N. Mather were yesterday admitted as solicitors of the Supreme Court bv His Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout).

Lieutenant-Colonel Johnstone, D. 5.0., who served with the Australian 1 orces from the outbreak of war to the conclusion of hostilities, is leaving by the Manuka for Melbourne, after a six-months holiday spent in the Dominion. Colonel Johnston was appointed to the command of a battalion in the field at the ago of twenty-six years.

Mr . Charles Collins, city treasurer, and Mrs. Collins, have returned from a holiday spent at Plimmorton. News has been received by Mr. J. 1. Gamble, of Hill Street, of the death at Batavia, on February 17, of his son, Mr Robert Gamble, for many years known as Mr. Robert Alton, who, until quite recently, was advance agent nt Harmston’s Circus in the East. The Consul-General at Batavia has informed Mr Gamble that the remains were interred in the British section of the new European cemetery at Retaniboerau, Batavia. The late Mr. Gamble was born at Wellington forty-six years ago and was educated at the Marist Brothers School. From his youthful days he took a great interest in athletics and when quite a young mail' he, with two other young Wellingtonians, joined ritzgerald’s Circus, .and made quite a name for himself in Australia and the East. It was in the East that the late Mr Gamble joined Harmston. and after a period of active circus work he went "on the road” as advance agent to the company.

Consequent on her recent illness, Dame Melba has been ordered' a sea voyage, states a London Press Association message She will therefore leave England for Australia on June 2, going by way of Canada. She will be accompanied by her fcon and his family. Dame Melba will remain in Australia for six months. Dr. Bruce Mackenzie, son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who recently arrived from England, has taken up his residence in Auckland. During the war he held a commission in the New Zealand Medical Corps, and for a time acted as radiologist at Walton Hospital. Since then he has been studying X-ray work at several London hospitals.