PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16204, 6 May 1918, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Mi- Cyril Ward returned from -North by yesterday's ferry steamer; * Dr. ,T. J. Brown Ice has «ron« Auckland for a few weeks. *

A Now York cable message states that 'Tommy'' Burns, the pugilist, W enlisted in the Canadian Army. Mr David Low, the well-known car toonist. of the Sydney "Bulletin" a*, rived in Christchumh voeterday mora"

A London cable message statek that -Mr Cccil Hunter .Rod well, Imperial rotary ui the High Commissioner for •South Africa, has been appointed Gov. ernor of Fiji. f. T */; • Col » npl C'baffeTA Officer Command, i£ r ,?V, ltorbt % military district" lctt for A\ elhngtoiiW Saturday eron imi en route to Nefcon to inspectt& lapawera Territorialjicanip. The Hon. J. A % an , Minister of I.duration arrived in'|hristchurch \r»terday. He will tran% t bußin oss receive deputations til moroini: aod ° r Uth b A 10 Mr Rudolph Friedlaiifr has r-. oeiveu advice that his ftn fw« Hugo Friedlander, has Jfe 2££s loave to Visit New Zealaif j'riediander was attachl to tb R.A.M.C. in I<ranee fronvt A,,_„S 15)14. but latolv has bera IJj- 808 *' the Italian front. on In a recent, list of awards ■ upon New Zealanders for Lawreuce Hay (nearest rolaC „ ' known) was mentioned as hav»L ceived the Order of the Briti* j?« pile. This refers to Mr Ja®sir~ Hay sou of .Mrs Hay, LawrencM the first- New Zealand Y.ALOA. tarv in France. Mr Hay wasl£ meriy in the employ of Messts B& and Co., Christchureh. v Tho Base Records Office, WcUineteP has roceived advice that Major Gan& aI.L.. of the Hampshire Regiment. 52 boon awarded tho D.5.0., SerjW natters, of the (3 th Dragoons, the Croix do Guerre, and Lieut. Dearden, D SO liW'v tho • R °y nl Fus'liera, a bar to the Military Cross. As these officers' ' i are not members of tho New Zealand 1 , expeditionary Force, their nearest relatives are not known at Base Records. Captain J. B. Itine, M.P., who was wounded in Palestine some timo ao n went before the Medical Board at Jlawera on Monday, and was passed •• 'medically fit'' for activo service, Tta ' (lecision speaks volumes for Stratford's ligiitin" member's constitution and inoulentally for the excellenco of the medical treatment accorded woUnded -IW'f* it - r ° nt / Btatcs the Patea, I ress ). It is not evory man who' can claim to Iks medically fit after having stopped thro? bullets, including one through tho lungs. ' ■■ « News has been received in Welling- • to., that Lieutenant G. H. TomJine his been awarded tho Militnry Cross. Lien-' tenant lomline was one of the first to' volunteer tor active service, and left N with the Expeditionary Forces for feanioa. Alter serving eight months in hamoa he returned and left again with the 9th Reinforcements for? JMjypt and later for France, with tbe-i Machine-gun Company. He was wound- « ed in the Soroine battlo, hut eoon re-' : joined- his unit. Shortly afterwards\s he was picked to represent New Zea-;?i land m the Machine-gun Company sit 'f the great review held in Pans. '

Mr J. Orchh ton. Chief Engineer of I is shortly retiring after '".f iorty-four years' public service. Mr " Urchiston. who is well-known through-i out the Dominion, having for so- long. ii occupied a prominent position-in, tho | lelegraph Department, arrived lin 1 Dunedin with his parents in 1883. In I January, 187-J, ho joined the Telegraph Department as a cadet, and was given M his present position in 1911. Mr Or- p chnston, who is a member of the Porn® estry League, has for ninny years pastilß taken a keen interest in and has written a number of valuables! papers 011 New Zealand trees. H»|l was chieflv instrumental in securing;!! the planting of over 25.000 nativo I trees on the Wireless Hill. Welline-'f ton. • ;