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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL

A letter has been received in Now Plymouth from Surgeon-Major G. Home, stating that he is well and is proceeding to Scotland for a holiday. The Mayor (Mr. C. H. Burgess) leaves for Wellington to-morrow to attend a conference of Patriotic Committee representatives at Wellington on Friday. A letter was received yesterday from Sergeant-Major Home, stating that he is well and proceeding to Scotland for a holiday, Mr. John Farrell, the well-known "advance" for 3. C. Williamson, Ltd., will arrive here to-morrow morning, per Rarawa. The "Potash and Perlmuttcr" Company-will also be passengers. The Tenth Reinforcements, which left Hawcra on Monday night included Mr. F. G. Treweck, who was for a number of years in business in Hawcra, and who was secretary of the Egmout A. and P. (Association. He has joined aa a private, but expects to qualify for N.C.O. tank. Mr, Alex. Gordon, who has been senior guard on the Hawke's Bay section of New Zealand railways during the past twenty years, retired on superannuation last Friday. Some forty years ago, Mr. Gordon entered the railway service at Lyttelton, and was placed in charge of the import shed at that port, a position he held with credit for a number of years until removed to Napier. Brigadier-General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell, who was recently honored by the King, was born in Napier in February, 1868, and is the son of the late Captain Hamilton Russell, of the 58th Regiment, a brother of the late Captain the Hon. Sir William Russell. He was educated at Harrow, and subsequently at Sandhurst. In the year 1887 he joined the Border Regiment as second lieutenant and served Ave years on foreign service. In the year 1592 he came to New Zealand to join his father, who was then farming Flaxmere in partnership with his brother Sir William, and in 1896, when the partnership expired, 'each brother took half-share of the property—he was left to manage his father's interests, and until lie subdivided tlie estate he conducted one of the finest farms in the neighborhood. In the year 1000 the Hawke's Bay Mounted Rifles was formed, and he was elected to command, a position he held until lie was promoted major and thou colonel oi the Wellington Mounted Brigade. This rank he held at the outbreak of war, and on Ms services being accepted he was appointed Colonel in command of the Mounted Rifle Brigade of the Ist New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Shortly after landing at Gallipoli he was promoted brigadier-general, the rank he at present holds.