PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9793, 17 October 1917, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Brigadier-General Sir Alfred Robin and Surgeon-General Ilendna-nn left Wellington for the south by the Mararoa last evening.

A Press cable from Melbourne announces the death cf Major Wardill, oj international cricket team fame, Mr Arnaud McKellar. general manager rf (ho Blackball Coal Company, will arrirc from the south by the Maori this morning. Ho will be in Wellington for a couple of days. Dr. Eitchett. who recently retired from the position of Public Trustee, will leave Wellington today for Auckland, where be intends to practise as a. barrister.

Air J- U. Collins, first assistant teacher at. King’s College. Auckland, formerly on the stall' of Wellington College ha? accepted a position in -New South Wales.

Sapper James P. Daly, son of Mr and Mrs Daly, Wright street, who was killoc in action on September 2(1 ,h. 1917, lefl with the- Australian Forces. Ho, was an old boy of the ilarist Brothers’ School. Air Wm. Rcdgatc, of Onchuugn, for fourteen year? inspector of the Auckland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and afterwards a. Government stock and dairy inspector, is dead, aged eighty.

A vote cf sympathy with Councillor E. Terry, who recently lost his left eye as a result of being struck with a steel splinter while at work in the railway workshops, was passed, _by tho Fetoue Borough Council last night. Private advice has been received that Sapper James P. Daly, son of Mr and Mrs M. Daly. AVright street, was killed in action on September 25th, 1917. U« left with the Australian forces, and was an old Marist Brothers’ School hoy. Lieutenant AA r . B. -Fitchett, of the Third Auckland Battalion of the New. Zealand Rifle Brigade (only son of Dr F. Fitchett, C.M.G., late Public Trustee', was admitted to Walton-on-Thames Hospital on September 28th, suffering from dilated action of 1 the heart,' the effect of gas-poisoning.

Mr R. Triggs, ex-Public Service Commissioner. and now Public Trustee, was met bv some friends in the Post Office Building with whom ho had been most intimately associated during his term of office ami presented with a set of .pipes and a cigarette case, inscribed "Lcs-J We Forget.” The presentation was "Ihada bv Mr IV. It. Morris. Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department. Sergeant-Major John Cross, who has died of wounds, went away with the silaein Body, in the artillery. ,Ho was wounded on Gallipoli and was present at tho evacuation. Alter Teaching France ho was promoted to battery sergeantmajor. Ho was formerly a member of tho B Battery of Christchurch, and for some time held the heavy-weight B mar teur boxing championship of Canterburr.

The death in. action in France of Second Lieutenant K. Struck removes a young man of excellent promise ami a prominent athlete. Both in hockey and athletics the late lieutenant was a keen exponent, and besides playing for tho University Hockey Club ho also represented Wellington. He belonged to a well-known Hawera family, his father being Mr C. A. Struck, J.P., headmaster of the Hawera State School.

Lieut. Douglas Freeman, of the Australian Imperial Forces, who was killed, in action in I’rance on September 23th, was in tho service of the Western Australian Government when war broke out. and immediately volunteered for active service. Ho went through the South African War. When L’.eut. Freeman left for the front Mr 3 Freeman went to star with her parents, Mj- and Mrs J. R. Brandon, of Lyall Bay. and died a tew mouths afterwards.

Lieutenant Edward A. Craig (died o 1 wounds) was the youngest son of the late Mr David Craig, at one t.imo general manager of the Now Zealand Insurance Company. Ho was born in Christchurch. and educated at the Auckland Grammar School, lie left New Zealand with the 21th Reinforcements in April Inst. . At the time of enlisting Lieutenant Craig hold a responsible position at the Auckland office of the New Zealand Incuronce Company.

Among those recently reported as died of wounds in France was Second Lieutenant William Henry Moore, aged 36. Ho was the son of tho late Mr W. H. Moore, of Wellington, was educated at the Terraco School, ami previous to enlistment was on the staff of the City Council, in the Tramway Department. On the outbreak of war ho joined the Samoan Contingent, and on his return the Fifth Reinforcements. He was a quarlenuastcrsergeant on Gallipoli, and received his commission in action on the Somme, about twelve months n_go._ His brother and sister reside in Wellington. Private Robert A. Reid, who died of wounds in France, was the second son. of Mr Alexander S. Reid, chief subeditor of tlie Auckland “Star. Private Reid, aged 26, was one of three brothers who, prior to the war, ran a lar'e dnirv farm at Karaka, but who are now at the front. Lieutenant A. Reid loft with the 22nd Relnforccmente, and Private R. A. Reid with the 17th. Private L. H. Reid left with the 4th Reinforcements, and was wounded once in Gallipoli and twice in Franco. He is now returning to New Zealand invalided. The three brothers were in the same regiment during iho Battle of blcssines.

Among those reported missing. believed killed in action, icCaptain Arthur Charles Hubbard, , who was a well-known and popular settler of Lppor Thames. He wa,.) a native of Ohinemuri,where ho had lived all his life, and was 37 years al age. Captain Hubbard, who was engaged in farming with his brother near Paerca, !wa« a public-spirited man, being chairii>j!i of the local dairy company, a Territorial officer, and a first-rate polo player. When going into camp ho was pre*- anted with a sword by, the local branch of the Farmers’ Union, and several other presentations were made him in recognition of public cervices. His tlldowcd mother lives at Paeroa.

Included in the recent casualty liaf* is tho name of Captain Pobcrt Sefton Adams, Foral Field Artillery, only son oi Dr and'Mrs Xlarry Adams, of Wellington, and a nephew ox Colonel W. H. S. Moorhouse, of this city. Captain Adams was born in. London, bat came out to New Zealand with his .people as a child. He was educated at Wellington College, where he bad a .distinguished sports career, and when ho left to study law at Cambridge was head nrefcct of the college. He received his B.A. decree at Cambridge. On the outbreak of war Captain Adams joined the Royal Field Artillery, and was given a commission. He received his captaincy last April. Captain Adams was married just before the war, and leave# a widow and child in England.

The death occurred in V'ellington yesterday morning of Gunner John Fernandes. New Zealand Field Artillery, son of Mr Nicholas Fernandas, of Lamulon quay. Gunner Fernandes was born in V'c.imgton 3S rears ago. and was educated at i-’. Parrick’s College and pivervie.w College (Sydney). At the time of enFo was studying dentistry here, jib" joined the 7th'Artillery Rmnforcomonts, and saw seme; in Ebypt and France, being wounded on the £olnme. 'Ti c deceased soldier contracted tuberculous whilst on active seivice, and was invalided 'bock to New Zealand reven months aim. He was a crack oarsman, h '-o a member rf toe >» cuiinj?--Mr f ernando**?* ontr „,„w i„f r st-rH the Main Boir.; 1 mitiiarr funeral -iM b? h-e-*d tb-i.s afternoon.