PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16358, 1 November 1918, Page 7

PERSONAL ITEMS.

— Mr A. Smith, clerk in the Dunedin Supremo Court office, has been transerred to the Christchurch office. Mr H. N. Cook, Timaru representa,ive of Sargocd, Son, and Even, has jc*en appointed manager of the tirm s varehouse at New Plymouth. \ Press Association telegram from Hmaru states that Mr T. Buxton cxU.P., has been appointed j . •he South Island tor the .\a-ionnl Klticiencv League (iiquor question; <- 10111 November Ist. Kc begins 3 tvork in cstiar.d next week. Cable' advice has been received that lii=r Maiestv's Trade Commissioner ScwzTaland (Mp R. W. ton), who Wellington some months a <r 0 +1 order to make an official tour of "ic United Kingdom, has now arrived London. Captain J. Garfield Stewart, c -' R.F.C., passed through Chrutcuurch on Tuesday on liis return to the front. Captain Stewart went out as sccoudlieutenant in the Main Body, and 1 joined the F.C. He wasnwardedtle M.C. and six months' holiday, now well, and hopes to assist in tne final fighting. A cablegram has been received from Headquarters by Mr W. J. ?" a R ie £' Auckland, that his son, Captam Esmond Napier M.C., has been promoted major. Major Napier was born at Dcyonport, and educated at the district school thore and at Wanganm Codege. ne left with the 20tli Reinforcements an was gassed early m 1917 and wou^ this year at Gravenstafel. He won his M.C. some six months ago. Fot tiie three months prior to recent advance ho ' was in special training n England. Major Isapier is 2o yeais or age " , • i Among the passengers who a rny from Australia by the Westra 1 1 a a days ago was Lieut. Walter H. T « > D.S.C. M.M. and bar, R.N .R. He is the sixth son of Mr and Mrs A. Frame, sen., of St. Kilda, and joined the first Australian Expeditionary iorce. in August, 1914. Leaving with the Body for Egypt in October, 1!D14, | ho served on Gallipoli an.'tl France as a telephonist and hnes- j man, and during the battle of the Somme in 1916 he was awarded the Military Medal and bar for repairing telephone lines at Pozierres. Being a master mariner, he was transferred to tho Royal Naval Reserve for general services in April, 1917, and was awarded tho Distinguished Service Order for bravery in action with enemy submarines whilst serving in ono of the renowned "Q" vessels. He is now on three weeks' furlough, and returns to duty at the end of November. He was horn in Oamaru, finished his education at tho Albanv street School, Dunedin, and later, in'the U.S.S. Co.'s service, worked his way up to tho position of fourth mate of the Monowai.