PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10278, 13 May 1919, Page 3

PERSONALIA

Mr W. Hughes, clerk on the Shannon railway staff, has received notice of hia transfer to Cross Creek.

The Rev. -B. Inglis, of Masterton, 1* to take charge of the Carterton Proabjy terian Church.' ,

The Rev. G, T. Brown, who ijms been a chaplain with the New Zealand forces, will return to Masterton this week.

Mr B. J. Southgate, formerly of Petone, has been elected chairman of the \Valrarapa Rugby Union for the ensuing year.

. Captain and. Mrs R. S. Walton and Captain and Mrs J. E. Page, of Wellington, are at present visiting Auckland. j

A Press Association message from Melbourne announces the death of SurgeonGeneral Sir William W illiam, DirectorGen era 1 of the Commonwealth Army. Medical Services, aged 03. 1

Dr William Creser, who has been ap-pointed—examiner-for New Zealand for the Trinity College of Music, is to leave Vancouver 1 for the Dominion -early u» August. - r .■

Mr W. Callender, general manager, and Mi- R. W. Kane, a member of tha; Board of Directors of the Bank of NewZealand, returned from a brief, holiday, visit li- Masterton yesterday.

Sergeant C. Vunckley. of Shannon, who arrived by the Northumberland, contracted mumps on the voyage, and is now in isolation in Wellington.

Prior to leaving, for Dunedin, Mr Taylor, of the Shannon post office staff. was -iTesenied with a fountain pen as a token,, ol goodfellowship from his fellow workers.

The Hon. W. H.- Herries, Minister for Railways, leaves Wellington foi Tanrauga to-day in connection with the farewell visit of the Governor-General to that district.

Mr Bartlett Adamson, who left Wellington recently to take up his residence: in Sydney, has been - appointed a .subeditor to tbe new Australian paper, "Smith's Weekly.’’ . '.

Mr W. P. Mitchell, F.1.A.N.Z.. A.Am.I.E.EL, of Napier, sales manager for New .Zealand for Messrs Turnbull end Jones, Ltd., arrived in Wellington on Saturday. ;

Messrs Vallance, Harper, and Smith.; have been appointed to represent -the Masterton A. and P. Association at iho Agricultural Conference in Wellington, in July,

Ensign and Mrs Sawyer, who were under orders to transfer to the Salvation Army at Wellington South, have tow. been notified that they are to remain ih; Masterton.

Mr .T. Hndder. of Dalefield, bias been elected president of the Wairarapa P.| and A. Society, and Messrs Q. E. Alien! and J. G. Oates vice-presidents. The' old committee was re-elected with the addition of Hr Haycock, of Martinborough,

Mr D. Smith, who for the last five* years occupied the position of command paymaster of the Auckland military dip trict,- has been appointed chief clerk arid receiver of lands revenue in the Lands Department, at ‘ 1

News has been received that Sergeant; A. J. Hodges, senior mechanician of the Post and Telegraph Department, A nekland, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallantry cn the field of action. Sergeant Hodges has been on active service for three years. It is te-i lieved that he is now on his way back 1 to tbe Dominion.

P» t-'"r James Aloysiue Kenny, whoi died vn. Melbourne recently, was a lent r\' St. .1/atnclcV College. Madafy,. for.; -sorne He was ordained to th*. nriestboocl in liome nineteen years o?o,And tn .]c the decree of L.C.L’ at the Gregorian University .in that city. He had b*pn stationed in various p&rishea •n Victoria before jrojng to St. .Tosenh's. Melbourne, where be was acting a> curate «hen he died.

The last of n family of soldiers died’ the other day in England in MaiorI'lonera! John Biward Swindley, C.U.I The general mi 88 years of age, and bad! served at the siege of Sebastopol, in (he Mutiny, the Kaffir Wars cf 1852-3, and' later in the mareh to Kandahar. He was the eldest of fm, r brothers, three of whom settled in New • Zealand—Major Swindley, of Tauranya. Captain Swind-i ley, of Coromandel, and Mr Harry Swindlev. of Auckland — all predeceased (ha eldest brother. Two sons of the Irto Harry Swindley on service, abroad were able to attend their uncle’s funeral. ;

Private Laurence Carman. 3rd Rrser ivho went Home and joined} the Imperial Army in 1913 in London, re- ! turned to Auckland hr the lonic, wearing five chevrons. Staff-Sergeant Fred Carolan, 9th ‘ Reinforcement, who • re-! turned by - the Hemuera, is well known, in amateur athletic circles, and did romo running in Egypt, and recently In Parla. ; He. has been attached''tb ffffi musketry staff of the Third Aucldandr Troopori Gordon Carolan, who left-with the ictli 1 Mounted; Eiftas, is still in Egypt, -end; may visit London before’returning to 1 -New Zealand. All three are"tons of Dr •James Carolan, of Matamatn, , I

.Captain Adam. lloiiKlsby. of" Liverpool New comb \vties, aged 1(0 years and *3 montby died recently. He was born at .Sou.li Sliinlds, Aewcastle-on-Type, on ; ■lannaev iSJvd; IS Hi, arid served his 1 nrontice.shin in the shipwrights’ trade, and was afterwards on a number of eall- ■ mg vessels on the North Sea. He n “ nred - Sydney ,n IAV,. and later ownJl several ketones.. trading along the coast ■ for E .om« years His was the last to sail , from HOW Ray to Liverpool, ' '■.eoie-'R R.ivor, with n cargo of timber. : He be-I been a resident of Liverpool for 10 years and up to (he age of 98 ho was engage-! bir.h.mg cottages soleiv by his own labour. Ho enjoyed good health . up to a fen- months ago.

Let Stanton and Evans show yotl i round the city and suburbs. Open ( and dosed-m cars; reliable chauffeurs. . Uso ’phono 2210. Under Vice-Uegal patronage. • * ;