PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1919, Page 4

PERSONAL.

President Wilson sailed for Franc# OH Wednesday. Mr. Evan Jones, M.P, lias been ap-. pointed Coal Controller, A London cablegram states that Mr. Lloyd George left, for Paris on Wednesday. The Crown Prince of Serbia h&a conferred on Mr. Holman the Order of St. Sava of the second class. Mr. George McLeod, for thirteen years manager of the Union Bank at Hamilton, has been appointed to the management ai the Wanganui branch. The Hon. C. H. Izard, MX.C., of Weilington, has received advice by cable that his only son, Mr. Keith H. Izard, died at London on February 23 last. At the Methodist Conference yesterday, the Rev. C. H. Olds, formerly of New Plymouth, wag appointed Sunday school organiser. He is a chaplain to the New Zealand Forces, and is now in France. Major F. G. Maßsey, D.5.0., M.C., son of the Prime Minister, has joined Messrs Earl and Kent, solicitors, at Auckland, in partnership. Major Massey, having been severely wounded, returned from the front a few months ago, and recently received his discharge. Major Massey has recovered from his wounds. Miss Clarice Buckmann, of Wellington, has received advice from her sister, Miss Kosino. Buckmann, the operatic prima donna in London, mentioning that she may visit Australia this year with an opera company, which will probably be organised by Sir Thomas Beeeham. The Rev. A. S. Fowler, vicar of St. Aidan's Church, Remuera, who has resigned owing to tliroat trouble, has now given up Ins duties, and expects to return to England shortly. Mr Fowler, who has been at St. Aidan's for nearly ten years, was also stationed in Canterbury and New Plymouth. News has been received in Wellington of the death at San Francisco of Mr. J. D. Wiliiams, founder and formerly managing director of the J. ))■ Williams Company. Sydney, a leading figure in the motion picture business in Australasia. The late Mr. Williams succumbed to pneumonic influenza. At the time of his death he was general manager of the National Exhibitors' (Motion Picture) Circuit of the United States of America. , .

After being a prisoner in Germany since the middle of 1917, Lieutenant W. L. Harrison, R.A.F., has returned to his home in Rakaia (says the Christchurch Sun). Before it was known that he was definitely in Germany, he was posted for some time as missing. He laft New Zealand with the Main Body at a sergeant in the Mounted Rifles, and was invalided back from Gallipoli, suffering from shell-shock. However, lie made a good recovery, and returned in the Fourteenth Reinforcement as a machine-gun specialist. He passed his examination in Cairo as an aviator, and in due course received his commission in the Royal Flying Corps. Later, whilst on reconnaissance work over the enemy trenches, he was attacked by three German 'planes, and his machine being damaged he was driven down in the German lines. His father is Mr William Harrison, of Summerlea, Rakaia.