PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16308, 4 September 1918, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Surgeon-General Henderson passed through Christchurch yesterday on his way from Dunedin to Wellington. Lient.-<!olonel J. L. Sleeman, 1.Q.5., Director of Military T&ining, arrived in Christchurch from Dunedin by yesterday's express. To-day he will inspect the Secondary Schools' Refresher Camp at Burnham. After four years in the position of ' Administrator of Samoa, under military occupation, Colonel Logan, C.8., has secured furlough. He. will bo relieved temporarily at the end of the year by Colonel G. W. S. Paterson, of Auckland. Mr W. Densem's many friends will regret to hear that on Monday evening he .underwent an operation for appendicitis, but will be glad to know that le is progressing favourably, though lie will not be able to be about for three or four weeks. • In the annual report of the United Bowling, Tennis, and Croquet Club it is stated: "Since its annual meeting the bowling section haß suffered a very great loss through the death of Mr G. •W. Horsley on July 6th. Mr Horsley very ably filled the offioe of vice-presi-dent of the club for the season 1915-16, 4nd the kind-hearted, good fellowship displayed by him on tho green endeared him to every member of the bowliqg -section, and he will bo sadly missed in the days to come." Lieutenant O. F. Atmore, who has been awarded the Military Cross, is a son of Mr Edward Atmore, Napier manager of the Alliance Assurance Company, and a former resident of Wellington, and grandson of the late Captain J. T. Steele. Lieutenant Atmore left New Zealand as a second lieutenant with the 18th Reinforcements, and earned his first lieutenancy on the field. Ovor a year ago, at the Messines battle, he was badly wounded and gassed, and he was in England from June. 1917, to March, 1918, daring part of which time he was acting at a Stokes gun, and trench mortar instructor. He then returned to the front,-where hiß actions have earned a distinction.