PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16216, 20 May 1918, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

: Sir William Fraser, Minister of Public "Works, returned to Wellington on Saturday- evening. -Tiro well-known business men in Nelson—Mr Claude Hamilton, & member or tlje firm of Messrs E. v Buxton and Co., and Mr A. M. Bisley, of Messrs Bisley Bros,—are about to go into camp. Mr S. McCurdy.of Invercargill, lias tan appointed assistant general socreUry of the Auckland Y.M.C.A. Mr C. A. Brown, of Wanganui, has been apMinted assistant director of the boys' mvision. -Lieutenant-Colonel Beattie, Major - Norton Francis, Captain Stewart, Cap- » tain Brown, Captain Pettit, N.Z.M.C., Mr J. Craigie, M.P., and Mr W. J. - Dickie, M.P., were passengers from .Wellington by Saturday s ferry steamer. ' Major Frank Hume, who returned from England with ode of the recentlyWrivod drafts, is to succeed Major S* 6. Sandle, N.Z.R.A., as staff officer <.f tho Coast Defence Troops in tho Wellington military district. Major Sandle ' » going to the front. Lieutenant John Carswell, who left aew Zealand about two years ago, returned to Wellington last week. Ho was wounded and gassed in France, and WW returned to the Dominion on furWtygh. In civil life he was second engineer to tho Wellington City Drainage Bowd, and when he left for the front president of the Wellington branch °f the' Marine Engineers' Institute. ; Among the latest voluntary enlist, stents is that of Captain James Bruce wale, solicitor, at present acting as nihtary representative on the No. 2 Wellington Military Service Board. Beale, who has been medically and passed for active servieo •frflfc A," has seen previous war ser*we» having served with the rank vf a£: a adjutant during tho South African War, for which he holds the 8 medal with three clasps. ■ 'A number of the friends of Mr C. J. of the Buick Sales Company, met H«(.l says ay morning at Warner's tp»«ir aßd ,P r ?s en ted him with a gold ' iSH ? g 0015 ? nd Sllver P h °to frame 3ff y en P" as a mark of appreiw+?• t VTK>r to h,s departure shortly fojJJe front. Mr F. Raphael, who *ori? \r P re ßentation, referred to the Crn« j J ? nea , llft d done for the Red stated that in connexion with ' conce f t Party. Jones had a ®otor-car on no fewer than . Afferent occasions for the conveyto, the various ««» + Ar he T r cul ? glßtic referfor naff; Jones a generosity w Patnotio purposes.