PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 23, 21 October 1921, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

A Press Association cable message from London, announces the death of Mr. Peter Graham, R.A., the Scottish artist.

Mr. G. Mitchell, M.P. for AVellington South, who has been undergoing treatment in the Military Hospital at Rotorua. has returned to AVellington considerably improved in health.

Mr. L. O. IT. Tripp, chairman of the AVellington War Relief Association, will arrive back in New Zealand in December from his visit to the Old Country and the. Continent.

Mr. E. M. Mosley, of the. AVellington Magistrate’s Court, has been appointed clerk of the Magistrate’s Court at Otaki.

A well known business man of Auckland, who was also a prominent officer in the volunteers, and later in the Territorial Forces, died at the Mater Misencordia Hospital on Tuesday in the person of Mr. William Henry Hazard (states the "Star”).- He had been in poor health for the past few years, and had gon© into the hospital to undergo a minor operation. The cause of death was heart failure. Mr. Hazard was tarn at Thames in 1872. He was for many years in business in Queen Street, taking over the establishment upon the death of Ins falher in 1899. Mr. Hazard was a fine rifle shot and an enthusiastic fisherman. He was a member of the New Zealand rifle team which competed at Bisley in 1897 the year of the Diamond Jubilee. Mr.’Hazard took great interest in the work of the Acclimatisation Society, being an active memtar. and for five years was president. Mr. Hazard desired his remains should ta sent to the crematorium at AVellington. Deceased was an enthusiast in military matters. He joined A Battery Field Artillery wlrnn a youth 18 years of age. Subsequently he was transferred to Hie Garrison Artillery, and commanded the local forts during Hip war, attaining the rank of Lieut.Colonel.

Chief UefrcHve Ward, who retired from the Police Force yesterday, was presented with a framed group of photographs of members of his staff, suitably ijißcribed. Detective-Sergeant Kemp made Hie presentation and referred to the long and efficient service of Chief Detective- Ward and the esteem in which he was held, not only throughout the force, but by the public. Chief Detective Ward briefly thanked the detective staff for the presentation.