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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 72, 25 March 1918, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mr. J. S. Dickson, M.P. for Parnell, has returned from Wellington,:? ;f Capter Cheator, N.ZJ3.C, and his wife left for Featherston last night. The Rev. Howard Elliott arrived from the South by the express yesterday. j Colonel N. P. Adams has been elected i patron of the Featherston Golf Club. Mr. J. , Cull en, Commissioner in j charge of the Jugoslav Department, left' j for Wellington by the express last night. Sir William CuUen, Chief Justice of New South Wales, is- visiting Dunedin; accompanied by Lady Cullen. Captain J. B. Hine, M.P. for Stratford, is expected to reach -New Zealand shortly. ■ Mr. R. W. Dalton, H.M. Trade Commissioner, arrived from Wellington by the express yesterday morning. Mr. Wm. Parr Baker was a passenger by the oversea steamer to Australia recently. Mrs. J. Ritchie, sen-, who died at Carterton last week, aged 79 years, arrived in New Zealand with her parents 78 years ago, being then a baby in arms. —x.'William Ryan, who died at Greymouth, was for 30 years a member of the Fire Brigade and also superintendent for part of that time. Mr. J. E. Nathan, who served with the Red Cross in Italy, and contracted fever while there, has returned home to Wellington.. He is a son of Mr. David Nathan, of that city. Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Charters, CMG.j 17th (Ruahine) Regiment, and Major S. J. Bolton, P. and T. Corps and New Zealand Engineers, have been awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal. Feeling reference to the death of Mr. A. J. Storey,,-who had been managing director of the Farmer*' Co-operative ! Auctioneering Company, Ltd., was made by the chairman, Mr. A. J. Barugh, at the annual meeting of shareholders' on Saturday. The Mayor (Mr. J. H. Gunson) has so far recovered as to be able to spend a couple of hours at his office each day this Ti c , k \ - Al J* ntil »« Mr - A. J. Entrican is still handling the relief funds for the sufferers from the fire at Raetihi. Mr. J. P. Vause, of Cheltenham, Devonport has been, advised that hig son, Coy-Sergt.-Ma.ior Cyril J. Vause, who went with the Mam Body of the AustralM , n *P* l ?u ary ?orce ' and h » B been all through the campaign to date, has th l - Merit <"ious Service Medal, and has been sent over from France to England for a .Lieutenant J. Craig, son of the late ■Mr. J J Craig, of Auckland, has returned after three years' service. He HwE a P J' Vate ith the Bth Reinforcements, and served in France until the battle of the Somme. He was then sent to an officers' training corp S and gfveh a command in the Imperial Army. Li eu tenant Craig is now on furlough Hon. H Marks, M.L.C., of Fni * has been created a Commander of th» n,* of the British Empire. This" in recogmtmn of the splendid exaS he has set the community by his free gmng to patriotic funds. aVart ftu_ 'this he also furnished _S(WTo defray I the expenses of one contingent from Fiji , MajorjCharles A. Swinbourne, who has also been made an officer of the Order i« the Commandant of the Fijian Defence Forces, and is now on service in England.