PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9792, 16 October 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Colonel Porter, C. 8., lias returned to Wellington from Poverty Bay ana Hawke’s Bay.

Tho Hawke’s Bay A. and P. Society has appointed Mr A. M. Reiemcyer, of Napier, secretary, in place of Mr Charles Douglas, resigned.

Private J. A. Cormack, of tho.. Union Company’s local office staff, who went to tho front with the 9lh Mounted Rifles, has transferred to tho N.Z. Field Artillery. v

Lieutenant M. TV. Morton, Into Wellington traffic manager for tho Union Company, who went on active service in tho Army Service Corps, has received a staff appointment in England.

Mr Frank Hillman, who, for a groat many years took a prominent part in tho musical services m connection with \Vesley Church and Sunday School, is seriously ill in ‘Wellington Hospital.

Mr Ivan F. Moses, accountant tor Messrs Nicholson and Bribbin, solicitors, Auckland, who wont to Sydney to consult a specialist, was seized with paralysis last week and died, aged -9-

Captain R. D. Elliott, of the Now Zealand Dental Corps, son of tho Hcv. Dr. Kennedy Elliott, of tho Kent terrace Presbyterian Church, lias returned to New Zcala-nd for orders, after being away lor a year.

Mr Robert Gilkinson, a Dunedin solicitor and member of the City Council, has volunteered to go to England at Ids own expense to undertake war work under tho British National Council of the Y.M.C.A.

Councillor E. Tovey of tho Petono Borough Council, who lost an eye as a result of an accident in the Petono railway workshops, has sufficiently recovered to be removed from the hospital to his home at Petono. Mr Wallace Dickson, formerly of Fcilding, who was shot through both ankles while ho was at Gallipoli, and was in hospital for twelve months, is now a physical drill and bayonet instructor at Codford. He was at ono timo a leading middle-weight boxer m 'New Zealand.

Tlio death has occurred at "Whangarei of Mr llobert Samuel Lincoln, aged SS, who was described as the father of tho Postal Service in Auckland. Ha was attached to the Post Office from 18G3 to 1888, when he retired from the Public Service. Tho’ deieased 'lcaVca five children, 21 grandchildren, and' dt great-grandchildren. At last night’s mooting of the Ketone Council a motion of condolence was passed and letters of sympathy are to bo sent to the widow and parents of tho late Lieutenant S. Marsden, and to tho wife of the late Private S. Sullivan. Both soldiers made the supreme sacrifice in the defence of tho Empire. Mrs Theodore . Roosevelt,- junr., daughter-in-law of the ex -President o! tho United States, has arrived in Paris, where she is to devote the. whole of hor timo to the service of the soldiers through the agency of tho. American Y.M.C.A. Tho son-in-law of President "Wilson, Mr Francis B. -Sayre, is also going to France with the American troops as Y.M.C.A. Field Secretary.

■Captain W. ,T. Hardham, V.C., has resigned the management of the Soldiers’ Convalescent Homo at Hanmcr, in order to go on active service again. Captain Clifton, formerly of Pahiatua, is taking temporary charge of tha home. On leaving the Hanmer Home several presentations were made tc Captain and Mrs Hardham, in recognition of their good work for the institution.

Xews has been received that Lieutenant Millies, principal of the Auckland Training College, was killed in action on October 4th. Lieutenant Milnes, who was forty-four years ot age, occupied a very high placo in tho teaching profession. Ho exercised great influence for good on his pupils, with whom ho was most popular. Ho received a very hearty seud-ofl when he went into camp.

One of Xew Plymouth’s most bnl* bant boys has fallen in the fighting at Vpres, in tho person of Lieutenant Douglas A. Hnrlo. Ho was tho second son of Mr G. H, Harle, formerly of tho Now Plymouth Poet Office, and now postmaster at Ashburton. Ho was educated at tho Now Plymouth High School, subsequently attending VV ellington Collogo and Victoria College, and gained his LL.B. -degree when only twenty-one years of ago. When in camp he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of tho Supreme Court. He left with the 19th Reinforcements. He was a fine stamp of a young. New Zealander, who would have gono far had he been spared to live.

Mr Clarence V. Timmins, of Australia, is at present in Wellington,' after an absence of six months in Canada and the United .States of America, After traversing some 32 States, and.visiting the principal cities of that country,'Mr Timmins is returning to Australia, where ho intends to launch a scheme to enable tho families of returned soldiers who have been incapacitated during this war, to provide a home without cost to themselves. Mr Timmins is a member and committeeman of the Master Builders’ Association in Australia, and during his travel has made a special study of general and war conditions. “We cannot estimate as yet,” he says, “the value of America's entry into the .war, and everywhere she is busy in tho execution of final preparations to bring the war to a speedy end.” Deep regret will be felt at the new* of the death of Captain John Graham, who left Xew Zealand in command or D Company (Otago), 25th Reinforcements. Tho. deceased officer was tho second son of Mr Andrew Graham, of Hataitai, Wellington, and. was born at Dunedin in 1875. At .tho, time ot his enlistment ho was employed in tho Railway Department, being stationmaater at Lincoln, Canterbury, and was previously stationed at Invercargill, Winton, Palmerston North, Waipawa, Napier, and Otanc. Captain Graham always took a very keen interest in military matters, having been actingcaptain cf the Napier Rifles at the time of the Boor War, and captain of the Railway Engineers at Christchurch up to the time-'of-his enlistment. Ho was a prominent Treemason. being a Past-Master' and a member of the Canterbury Provincial Grand Lodge, and was one of the founders of the Winton, Lodge. The deceased officer, was of a kindly disposition, of exemplary character, and a good husband and father, and an officer v.ho was revered and beloved alike by officers and men. His death will bo deeply regretted by thooe whose privilege and pleasure it was to know him. and to hri'widow and" children the sympathy of a wide circle Of friend* will be extended in their great loss-