PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15603, 30 May 1916, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

The death is announced from Sydney of _Dt. F. G. Walton, aj veteran of the Crimean and Maori Wars.

Tho death is reported from London of Mr Alfred Grace, tho last surviving brother of the late Dr. W. G. Grace.

The Ellesmere County Council has appointed Mr John. Clark, a returned soldier, to the position of waterworks overseer, out of twenty-nine applicants.

Mr Leonard Barnes, the well-known baritone, leaves Christchurch for "Wellington at the end of the week, to take up a position with the New Zealand Picture Supplies Company, in that city.

Sergeant Jackson, of tho Lyttelton Polico Force, who has been on "holiday leave, resumed his duties yesterday, and Sergeant Dwan,' who has been relieving him, returned to Christchurch.

Advice has been received that Captain H. B. Wheeler, of the N.Z.S.C., who, for some months past, has been with his regiment (the Bth Battalion of the Royal West Kents) in Flanders, has been made a Brigade Transport Officer. The West Kents, it may be mentioned, were in the thickest of the fighting at Loos, where they lost 800 men and 25 officers.

Sergeant L. Allan, reported in tho latest casualty list as wounded is olio of three sons of Mr James Allan, of PalmOrston North. lat<|' of Otago. All three brothers wont to the front 'with the Main Expeditionary Force as members of the Machine-gun Section of the Otago Battalion. One was killed at Gallipoli, and another seriously wounded. Sergeant Allan served on the Peninsula from the time of the landing till shortly before the evacuation, when ho was invalided. He must have rejoined Ills regiment shortly before and proceeded to Franco. Ho i s 23 years of .age, and has relatives in Christchurch.