PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15088, 3 June 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

*™ofVs cZ May GnterS th 6 6BQt Mr Walter Webb, of Waime* Harold Prw e,T ed rpadvice that his SOIV tlarold h. Webb, ; Twenty-fourth Reinfwcemeiits, is returning with draft f7 on H.M.T. Waimana, due to reach. Auckland about June 20th. Mrs. Eirby, of Waiinea road, has leceived C able advice that her son, Rifleman Percy(W. Stewart, of till J-wenty-firfch Reinforcements, is returning to New' Zealand on H.M.T Wainlana, which is due to reach Auckland about June 20th. ' ' . Mr. J Jennens, Nile street east, hasbeen advised that his son, Sergeant C. K. Jennens, M.M., is returning by H.M.T. Waimana, due in Auckland on or about 20th June. Sergeant Jennensleft New Zealand with the Twenty-fifth. Reinforcements. Mr. A. E. Coleman, of Kohatu, has been advised that his son, Private A_ Newton Coleman, who left New Zealand with the Twenty-first Reinforcements, in returning by the Waimana, due in Auckland on or about June 120 th. | A Press Association message ani nounces the death of Mr Edward An- | derson, a well-known Wellington mer- ; chant, aged 75. He- leaves a widow four sons, and one daughter. One of his sisters is Mrs John Ballance, widow of a former Premier of New Zealand." ; Mr. George Greville Bridges, Regis-trar-General of Land and District Land Registrar at Wellington, hasretired on superannuation. He joined i the Department as Examiner of Titles at Christchurch. in 1879, and has held ;the position of Registrar-General of : Lands for the past seven years. Advice has been received by Mr J. L._ | D'Arcy Irvine that his second son Co--iporal Roy G. D'Arcy Irvine, is ex- ■ pec-ted to arrive at Auckland by the Waimana about the 20th inst. This soldier, who left with the Main Body, has been wounded two or three times,. !on the last occasion receiving injuries. ;to the chest through being buried by j a shell. J i • . ... \' Mr. J. B. Mawson, M.A., of the ; teaching staff of Wellington College has received an appointment on the staff of the Southland Boys' Hi<*h School. Mr. Mawson was an Otagoiiugby representative in 1913. Heserved in the Great War as a lieutenant, and gained the Military Cross on i the Somme in 1916. ! ■■■'-■ A Press Association telegram from Christchurch reports the death of Mr IT. W. Adams, one of the leading lay- ! men in the Methodist Church of New Zealand, and one of the foremost educationists in Canterbury, aged 77. The deceased came to New Zealand in 1862 and settled at Greendale in 1892. He was elected a member of the Education Board, being chairman on two occasions, and was elected a member of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College in 1896. He made a life work of collecting trees and shrubs from every temperate clime, and had a collection of over 800 different species. ;.;;,-,Sister,JEthel,Lewis,who returned by the Tofua, has had a distinguished career on active service. She joined up in England on the outbreak of war and served? in Serbia. For her work, there she ' received . a decoration from the King of Serbia. . Sister Lewis (who was '.previously district Native nurseat Otaki) rturned to New Zealand in. 1916, and later joined the New Zealand Army Nursing Service, and did valuable work in France, receiving further decorations. On her return the popular nurse was wearing five decorations and the gold "wound" stripe, records of her honourable service abroad in the interests of the fighting men.