PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9789, 12 October 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr L. K. Bassett has been elected president of tho Wanganui Chamber of Commerce.

Mr Kenneth McLennan and Mr Robert Glen have been appointed Inspectors of Weights and Measures. ■Mr Janies Gibb Johnston has been appointed an inspector for the dairy industry.

Mr T. H. G. Rowley, of the firm of Rowlev and Gill, is at present seriously ill in the Bowen street I’nvate Hospital. The death has occurred at Eeefton of Mr C. Cuff, a well-known " e.sc Coast dredgemaster, formerly 01 Christchurch.

Air T. H. Bond, general traffic manager of the l"nion_ Steamship Company, arrived at M cliington on tt ednesday from the South. The Public Service Commissioner hw« appointed Air Thomas James Boland to bo Registrar of Births and Deaths and Vaccination Inspector for the district of Wellington.

Ycotcrday’s ‘‘Gazette” notifies, tho appointment of Robert Samuel Trotter, A 1.1)., to bo chief medical officer at Rarotonga, in place of G. P. Baldwin, L.R.C.P., resigned.

Airs George Butler, of The Terraco, has boon advised that her son, Alnc, who left New Zealand with the- iOUx Reinforcements, has 'been'--*wounded. Sergeant Butler was formerly -on the staff of the Vacuum Oil Company in Wellington. .1 Colonel R. Heaton Rhodes,!. who intends proceeding to-Rngland on behalf of tho Now Zealand Rod Cross, will leave the Dominion soon after tho close of tho session. Air Rhodes expects to return in AXarch, Mrs Rhodes will accompany him. Lieutenant-Colonel John Craig, N.Z.M.C., who is a member of the Third Now Zealand Alcdicol Board, is at present on sick leave‘ at Auckland. Ho was formerly assistant medical officer in charge at and afterwards P.Af.O. with the Ibth Reinforcements on their voyage, to England.

Amongst tho casualties reported aio Pi-irate Victor Bright, who was on "the staff of J. 13. Clarkson and Co., and brother of Mrs_Gcorgo Blackio, of' The Terraco, Wellington ; .LanceCorporal A. R. RucUdn, who was a member of .tho Otaki State School leaching staff; and Private R- * • Murray, son of Mrs G. If. Murray, ot Otaki.

The members of the Karon Club mot on Tuesday eremw when a presentation of a high-clase camera was made to Lieutenant H. -■ Marshall, who was club president for several years. Mr W. Judd, the president, remarked upon the keenness that 'their late member had always shown in tho club’s career, and on behalf of his fellow-members wished him a safo return, , r .

Advico is to hand of the death in action of Lieutenant Harold Lawson, of tho R.F.C., on October 4th Iho deceased left Now Zealand with the P2th Reinforcements;' and ter some time ac*cd as a mbtor' dispatch.rider in Franco, previous to joining Flying Service. He was the younger son of Mr W. T. Dawson, of Ohnstchurch. The deceased s elder brother is still on active service.

For several days past a conference of military officials has been discussing tho host methods, of efficiently carrying on tho Territorial movement m the a’tend conditions brought about by the ‘war. - Yesterday the members ot tho conference, including Major-Gener-al Sir Alfred Robin Colonel C. M Gibbon, Chief of the General staff, and O.C.’s of tho districts, paid a. visit of inspection to Featherston ano Tauherenika-u camps.

Lieutenant Eric A. H. b"s boon seriously wounded recently in Flanders. At the outbreak or war ho was on the staff of Messrs M hitcombo and Tombs’s London office and immediately enlisted. He joined the Hoval Field Artillery, " h . ich he' has seen service m Salonika and Franco. Lieutenant M hitcombe returned homo from Salonika . ahou twelve mouths ago, but rejoined, and received his wounds after six months service in France. "

Private advice was received last nWhtthat the Rev. G. S. Bryan Brqwn, Anglican chaplain to tho New Zealand Forces, was killed -in. action Thursday. Prior to his departnro for the front ho was chaplain of Christa College. He was a splendid athlete, and represented Canterbury in thacricket field. Ho was also prominent in hockey circles. He graduated at Cambridge, and was master at Loretto School, Musselburgh, before coming out to Christ's College. Press Association.

The death of Captain . George Edmonds in Wellington a fow days ago at the ago of eighty-seven marks the passing of a sailor who was in his clav one oi tho most popular and bestknown officers in the .Union Company. Captain Edmonds, -who was 'born- in London, has had a most interesting and adventurom-earcer. During “tho Prussian-Danish war of 1860, ho was engaged in blockade-running, and was later on shipwrecked in the Gulf of Finland. Ho was awarded two inodaU for bravery for the part he played in tho wreck of the'steam cr~3rrlnriti!r in 1819, on, a voyage from Adelaide to Melbourne. The gallant captain was of saving many lives, by taking a boat’s crew to the rescue of the passengers, at | great risk. Another deed, which must be surely unique in tho annals of tho sea, was his navigation single-handed of a vessel in great danger of foundering to port. All the rest of the crew had abandoned the ship, but Captain Edmonds refused the offer of towing from another vessel, and after superhuman efforts, accomplished his task safely. Ho came to New Zealand nearly sixty years ago in one of tho Blackwood v-w-sols, and joined the Union Steam Ship Company in its earliest -days. For scrao time ho was engaged on tho VVellington-Pictou-Nel-'ori run as master. Captain Edmonds was unlucky enough to injure his back badly by a fall into the forehold <;f his ship, from which ho never fully recovered, and for the last three years "Of TiiS'iTfe was confined to his bed. Ha leaves a widow but no family. The funeral took place at Karori, where the ceremony was performed by the Rev, Knowles-Smith.