PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 259, 30 September 1940, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Among other appointments in the latest Gazette is the'name of Lieutenant J. F. Cody, M.M., recently of Palmerston North, who has been appointed quartermaster to the No. 1 Training Battalion at Trentham Mobilisation Camp. Mr Cody fought in the Great War, leaving New Zealand with the -Ith Reinforcements. He was seriously wounded on Gallipoli and later took part in the campaigns in France and Belgium, including the occupation of Germany. He was awarded the Military Medal at Passchendaele. A well-known Wellington business man, Mr Walter Johnston, died on Saturday, aged G 7. He was chairman of directors of the firm of Johnston and Co., Ltd., Wellington. Mr Johnston spent practically the whole of his life in the Wellington district. He was the second son of the late Hon. W. W. Johnston, of “Highden,” Awahuri, and was educated in England, first attending Stoneyhur6t College, and later completing his studies at Wadham College, Oxford. When he returned to New Zealand Mr Johnston entered business in Wellington. Mr Johnston travelled extensively, making many trips between New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He was married in Wellington to Miss Alicia Maud Coleridge, a grand-daughter of the late Mr W. T. L. Travers, formerly of Wellington. Mr Johnston is survived by his wife and his son, Mr Goring Coleridge Johnston, Wellington.